The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others
Paul Cartledge
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 entitled "Entr'acte: Others in Images and Images of Others," and a new afterword.
Catégories:
Année:
1993
Edition:
2
Editeur::
Oxford University Press
Langue:
english
Pages:
248
ISBN 10:
0192192663
ISBN 13:
9780192192660
Fichier:
PDF, 18.75 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1993