The Greeks : a portrait of self and others

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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. … celý popis

Podrobná bibliografie

Hlavní autor

Paul Cartledge, 1947-

Typ dokumentu

Knihy

Fyzický popis

xv, 260 s., 8 s. obr. příl. : mapy

Vydáno

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002

Vydání

2nd ed.

Témata

dějiny Řecka

starověká společnost

Řekové

národní identita

nacionalismus

starověk

starověké Řecko

ISBN

0-19-280388-3