Enmity and Feuding in Classical Athens is a long-overdue analysis of the competitive power dynamics of Athenian honor and the potential problems these feuds created for democracies.

The citizens of Athens believed that harming one’s enemy was an acceptable practice and even the duty of every honorable citizen. They sought public wins over their rivals, making enmity a critical element in struggles for honor and standing, while simultaneously recognizing the threat that personal enmity posed to the community. Andrew Alwine works to understand how Athenians addressed this threat by looking at the extant work of Attic orators. Their speeches served as the intersection between private vengeance and public sanction of illegal behavior, allowing citizens to engage in feuds within established parameters. This mediation helped support Athenian democracy and provided the social underpinning to allow it to function in conjunction with Greek notions of personal honor.

Alwine provides a framework for understanding key issues in the history of democracy, such as the relationship between private and public realms, the development of equality and the rule of law, and the establishing of individual political rights. Serving also as a nuanced introduction to the works of the Attic orators, Enmity and Feuding in Classical Athens is an indispensable addition to scholarship on Athens.

Stephen Della Lana’s popular and successful summer internship program to Germany is profiled in this fall’s edition of College of Charleston Magazine: 

http://magazine.cofc.edu/2015/10/21/guten-tag-opportunity-summer-internship-program-germany/

Stephen Della Lana’s popular and successful summer internship program to Germany is profiled in this fall’s edition of College of Charleston Magazine: 

http://magazine.cofc.edu/2015/10/21/guten-tag-opportunity-summer-internship-program-germany/

Stephen Della Lana’s popular and successful summer internship program to Germany is profiled in this fall’s edition of College of Charleston Magazine: 

http://magazine.cofc.edu/2015/10/21/guten-tag-opportunity-summer-internship-program-germany/

Archaeologists digging at Pylos, an ancient city on the southwest coast of Greece, have discovered the rich grave of a warrior who was buried at the dawn of European civilization.

http://magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/recent_features/warrior_tomb.html

Dr. Allison Sterrett-Krause invites students — no experience necessary — to assist her in working on Roman glass excavated in Carthage. Lay your hands on the past! We are fortunate to have a working glass lab with artifacts to catalogue and assemble. Come see what we do and talk to Dr. Sterrett-Krause and the students currently working in the Lab.

GlassLab2015_Invitation

This weekend, five faculty members from the Department of German and Russian Studies at the College of Charleston will present at the annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, held this year at the Marriott on Lockwood in Charleston! Here are there times, locations, and titles:

This weekend, five faculty members from the Department of German and Russian Studies at the College of Charleston will present at the annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, held this year at the Marriott on Lockwood in Charleston! Here are there times, locations, and titles:

Come join the Classics Club for Phalanx Days in the Cistern Yard: Thursday, Oct. 15 and Thursday, Oct. 22 at 4:30 PM. Make your own Greek shield and re-enact the phalanx, the battle formation that defeated the mighty Persian empire.