The Greeks
A Portrait of Self and Others
Who were the Classical Greeks? This book provides an original and challenging answer by exploring how Greeks (adult, male, citizen) defined themselves in opposition to a whole series of others (non-Greeks, women, slaves, non-citizens, and gods) as presented by supposedly objective historians of the time such as Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon. Cartledge looks at the achievements and legacy of the Greeks - history, democracy, philosophy and theatre - and the mental and material contexts of these inventions which are often deeply alien to our own way of thinking and acting. This new edition contains an updated bibliography, a new chapter en…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-280388-7
- EAN: 9780192803887
- Produktnummer: 8354194
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B13.0 cm x D1.8 cm 216 g
- Abbildungen: 8pp halftone plates and 2 maps
- Gewicht: 216
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Paul Cartledge is Reader in Greek History at the University of Cambridge. His publications include The Cambridge Illustrated History of Greece (CUP, 1997) and The Greeks (BBC, 2001).
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