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The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights Plato on the Promontory of Sunium, Discoursing to His Disciples, from Jean- Jacques Barthélemy, Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece: Maps, plans, views, and coins, illustrative of the geography and antiquities of ancient Greece (1806). Villanova University Digital Library. The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights rachel hall sternberg University of Texas Press Austin Copyright © 2021 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2021 This book has been supported by an endowment dedicated to classics and the ancient world and funded by the Areté Foundation; the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; the Dougherty Foundation; the James R. Dougherty, Jr. Foundation; the Rachael and Ben Vaughan Foundation; and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713- 7819 utpress.utexas.edu/rp- form ♾ The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48- 1992 (R1997) (Permanence of Paper). Library of Congress Cataloging-i n-P ublication Data Names: Sternberg, Rachel Hall, author. Title: The ancient Greek roots of human rights / Rachel Hall Sternberg. Description: First edition. | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020051342 ISBN 978-1-4773-2291-8 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4773-2292-5 (library ebook) ISBN 978-1-4773-2293-2 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Human rights—Philosophy—History. | Civilization, Classical— Philosophy. | Enlightenment—Philosophy. | Compassion—Philosophy— History. | Empathy—Philosophy—History. | Intellectual life—History. Classification: LCC JC571 .S813 2021 | DDC 323.01—dc23 LC record available at https:// lccn.loc.gov/2020051342 doi:10.7560/322918 To the best father πάντα ῥεῖ Contents Timeline for Greece ix Key to Abbreviations xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 Exploration A. Enlightened Athens in the Age of Jefferson 9 PART I. PARALLEL WAVES 1. The Turn toward Reason 21 2. Warfare 31 3. Empathy and Tears 41 4. Humane Discourse 51 Exploration B. Cyrus the Great 61 PART II. ANCIENT GREEK ROOTS 5. Elements of Respect 71 6. Paths through Time 91 viii Contents Exploration C. Tensions 107 Conclusions 121 Notes 127 Works Cited 137 Subject Index 151 Index of Ancient Passages 159 Timeline for Greece Note: All dates are BCE; the timeline is based on Pomeroy, Burstein, Don- lan, Roberts, and Tandy 2012. Early and Middle Bronze ages ca. 3000–1600 Late Bronze Age (Mycenaeans) ca. 1600–1200 “Dark Age” of Greece ca. 1200–750 Eighth- century “Renaissance” ca. 750–700 Archaic Greece ca. 700–480 First Persian War 490 Second Persian War 480/479 Classical period 480–323 Delian League and Athenian empire 477–404 Peloponnesian War 431–404 (ending with defeat of Athens) Age of shifting hegemonies 404–338 Rise of Macedon under King Philip II ca. 357–336 Greek city- states lose to Philip II at Battle of Chaeronea 338 Alexander the Great reigns 336–323 Hellenistic period 323–30 Romans gradually conquer Greece 196–146 ix
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