{"id":667,"date":"2018-01-20T18:39:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/?page_id=667"},"modified":"2023-09-04T14:35:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T13:35:15","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Honour in Classical Greece:\u00a0esteem, status, identity, and society in ancient Greek literature, life, and thought<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>is a Horizon 2020-EU.1.1 Excellent Science project funded by the European Research Council (project ID 741084<\/a>) under the ERC-ADG \u2013 Advanced Grant scheme.<\/p>\n

This five-year project will run from 2018 to 2023.<\/p>\n

The host institution is the University of Edinburgh, School of History, Classics and Archaeology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Though \u2018honour\u2019 may be an outmoded term in modern English, its modern analogues \u2013 esteem, respect, recognition, dignity, status, prestige, deference, face, image, etc. \u2013 still shape the dynamics of human social interaction. But modern understandings of honour in the societies and literatures of the past \u2013 especially the literature of ancient Greece \u2013 tend to present it as a single, specific, and more or less monolithic notion especially associated with zero-sum competition between alpha-males, a notion that is typically superseded by more co-operative, inclusive, and egalitarian values, whether in fifth-century BC Athenian democracy or in the eighteenth-century AD enlightenment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where honour survives in popular perception as a characteristic of modern communities it is typically ghettoized in the world of innercity gangs, in the Muslim East, or in the traditional machismo of the Mediterranean<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Honour in Classical Greece<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>will challenge these erroneous and misleading ideas. Using the findings of contemporary sociology and philosophy, with contributions from other disciplines from economics to literary studies, cognitive linguistics, and psychology, this project will lead to a root and branch transformation of the\u00a0id\u00e9es fixes<\/em>\u00a0that still mould the understanding of honour (Greek\u00a0tim\u00ea<\/em><\/span>) in our ancient Greek sources. The project will show that, far from being a single\u00a0value among many,\u00a0tim\u00ea<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>is a pluralist, inclusive, and flexible notion, as important to ancient values of justice, friendship, and social solidarity as it is to the violence of heroic self-assertion and the pursuit of vengeance. It underpins not only the wrath of Achilles in the\u00a0Iliad<\/em>\u00a0but also the community standards that seek to restrain and assuage that wrath. In Athenian law and politics it is as much about the rights that the law protects as it is about the pursuit of rivalry and competition through litigation. It pervades ancient Greek literature, thought, and society. This project will write its history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Featured image: particular from the \u2018law of Eukrates against tyranny<\/a>\u2019 (IG<\/em> II(3) 1 320 \/\u00a0GHI<\/em>\u00a079; Athens, 337\/6\u00a0BCE)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Project outline Honour in Classical Greece:\u00a0esteem, status, identity, and society in ancient Greek literature, life, and thought\u00a0is a Horizon 2020-EU.1.1 Excellent Science project funded by the European Research Council (project ID 741084) under the ERC-ADG \u2013 Advanced Grant scheme. This five-year project will run from 2018 to 2023. The host institution is the University of … Continue reading About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":150,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-667","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2533,"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/667\/revisions\/2533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}