The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780192803887)

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.

Author: Paul Cartledge
ISBN-10: 0192803883
ISBN-13: 9780192803887
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 12/05/2002
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 7.88h x 5.02w x 0.74d