Author’s Note: 1 - Epilogue: Modern Civilization as the Destruction of Archaic Order
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Author’s Note: 1
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The Propaganda of Order
According to Hermann Fränkel (Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy[1]: p. 416), “‘Order’ (kosmos) was a party slogan of the aristocracy.” This was like the hypothetical ancestral constitution, and much like the right-winger “strict constructionists” today in the U.S.
But the aristocracy rewrote the view of Solon: to say that he merely lowered the rate of interest, and did not cancel debts. And they added to (and no doubt removed from) the works of Theognis according to their own party propaganda.
- ↑ Hermann Fränkel, Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy, Moses Hadas and James Willis (trs.) (New York: 1975), p. 416. Cited in Veda Cobb-Stevens, “Opposites, Reversals, and Ambiguities: The Unsettled World of Theognis,” in Thomas J. Figueira and Gregory Nagy (eds.), Theognis of Megara: Poetry and the Polis (Baltimore: 1985), pp. 159–175.
