F. Rosen
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198200789
- eISBN:
- 9780191674778
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198200789.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, History of Ideas
This chapter considers three major themes of the ‘Observations’: Jeremy Bentham's thesis that the acceptance of popular sovereignty should lead to a transformation of the theory and practice of ...
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This chapter considers three major themes of the ‘Observations’: Jeremy Bentham's thesis that the acceptance of popular sovereignty should lead to a transformation of the theory and practice of constitutional government; his use of the greatest happiness principle to resolve problems arising from the exclusion of the Turkish community from citizenship; and his novel and important contribution to constitutional theory in the doctrine of ‘latent negatives’. The chapter also explores the relationship between the ‘Observations’ and Bentham's better-known work on constitutional government, the Constitutional Code. Finally, it discusses the allegation that the constitution of Epidaurus was a mere ‘façade’ created by Greece to impress Europeans as to the capacity of the Greeks to operate a Western, centralised government. This allegation raises not only the question of the point of Bentham's commentary but also the general issue of the relationship of constitutional theory to practice.Less
This chapter considers three major themes of the ‘Observations’: Jeremy Bentham's thesis that the acceptance of popular sovereignty should lead to a transformation of the theory and practice of constitutional government; his use of the greatest happiness principle to resolve problems arising from the exclusion of the Turkish community from citizenship; and his novel and important contribution to constitutional theory in the doctrine of ‘latent negatives’. The chapter also explores the relationship between the ‘Observations’ and Bentham's better-known work on constitutional government, the Constitutional Code. Finally, it discusses the allegation that the constitution of Epidaurus was a mere ‘façade’ created by Greece to impress Europeans as to the capacity of the Greeks to operate a Western, centralised government. This allegation raises not only the question of the point of Bentham's commentary but also the general issue of the relationship of constitutional theory to practice.
Leonora Neville
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190498177
- eISBN:
- 9780190498191
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190498177.003.0002
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter explains the conflict between the female submissiveness expected in Anna Komnene’s culture and the authoritative masculine behaviors required for history writing. It describes Byzantine ...
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This chapter explains the conflict between the female submissiveness expected in Anna Komnene’s culture and the authoritative masculine behaviors required for history writing. It describes Byzantine conceptions of gender that prized modesty, reticence, seclusion within the home, and deference to masculine authority for women, and notes some techniques women used to act with self-determination while upholding this dominant ideology. The tradition of Greek historiography, which involved participation in the public arena of politics and warfare, active research including the interrogation of witnesses, judgment of men’s deeds, and rhetorical education, is shown to be a masculine endeavor. The self-aggrandizement of historical authorship sparked discourses of humility for male authors. The investigation of these fundamental tensions shows us what difficulties Anna faced in writing history. Pamphile of Epidaurus is discussed as an example.Less
This chapter explains the conflict between the female submissiveness expected in Anna Komnene’s culture and the authoritative masculine behaviors required for history writing. It describes Byzantine conceptions of gender that prized modesty, reticence, seclusion within the home, and deference to masculine authority for women, and notes some techniques women used to act with self-determination while upholding this dominant ideology. The tradition of Greek historiography, which involved participation in the public arena of politics and warfare, active research including the interrogation of witnesses, judgment of men’s deeds, and rhetorical education, is shown to be a masculine endeavor. The self-aggrandizement of historical authorship sparked discourses of humility for male authors. The investigation of these fundamental tensions shows us what difficulties Anna faced in writing history. Pamphile of Epidaurus is discussed as an example.
Oliver Taplin
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198805656
- eISBN:
- 9780191843600
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0002
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
Seamus Heaney did not actually visit Greece until 1995, a trip ‘long promised, long deferred’, followed by a later visit to Delphi, which added a tribute to Zbigniew Herbert and two further ‘Sonnets ...
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Seamus Heaney did not actually visit Greece until 1995, a trip ‘long promised, long deferred’, followed by a later visit to Delphi, which added a tribute to Zbigniew Herbert and two further ‘Sonnets from Hellas’ to the four set in the Peloponnese. These were all published in Electric Light in 2001, as was the superb poem ‘Out of the Bag’, which works in a ‘pilgrimage’ to Epidaurus. The aim of this short study will be to trace the topography of Heaney’s Hellas poems in order to bring out his vivid observation of locality and landscape. At the same time it will consider the associations that the Greek settings bring to his mind, especially those of other places: hyperborean Poland, Harvard, Lourdes, and, above all, the myth-haunted island at the far north-west of Europe.Less
Seamus Heaney did not actually visit Greece until 1995, a trip ‘long promised, long deferred’, followed by a later visit to Delphi, which added a tribute to Zbigniew Herbert and two further ‘Sonnets from Hellas’ to the four set in the Peloponnese. These were all published in Electric Light in 2001, as was the superb poem ‘Out of the Bag’, which works in a ‘pilgrimage’ to Epidaurus. The aim of this short study will be to trace the topography of Heaney’s Hellas poems in order to bring out his vivid observation of locality and landscape. At the same time it will consider the associations that the Greek settings bring to his mind, especially those of other places: hyperborean Poland, Harvard, Lourdes, and, above all, the myth-haunted island at the far north-west of Europe.
