The Greeks - A Portrait of Self and Others
Author(s): 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 historiansof 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 newedition contains an updated bibliography, a new chapter entitled "Entr'acte: Others in Images and Images of Others," and a new afterword.
General Information
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- : Oxford University Press
- : Oxford University Press
- : 0.224
- : 01 October 2002
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Paul Cartledge
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 938
- : 304