The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others - Softcover
Who were the Classical Greeks? This is not an original question, but in this book it is given an original and challenging answer. Paul Cartledge examines the Greeks in terms of their own self-image, mainly as it was presented by the supposedly objective historians: Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenephon. The Greeks were the inventors of history as we understand it, just as they were our cultural ancestors in so many other ways. Yet their historiography remained rooted in myth, and the mental and material context of many of the inventions for which we rightly treasure the Greek achievement--especially democracy, philosophy, and theater, as well as history--was often deeply alien to our own ways of thinking and acting. The aim of The Greeks is to explore that achievement. The book looks in depth at how the dominant Greeks--adult, male, citizen--sought, with limited success, to define themselves unambiguously in polar opposition to a whole series of "others"--non-Greeks, women, non-citizens, slaves, and gods.
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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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"Very helpful in updating the study of ancient Greece in line with modern issues and perspectives. Quite accessible to students as well as provocative to scholars."--Dirk T.D. Held, Connecticut College
"To the advanced student with a good grounding in the subject, it can be warmly recommended as a source of new insights and new approaches, and it can also be recommended to the student of other manifestations of ialtérité in search of Classical material for comparisons."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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).
"Very helpful in updating the study of ancient Greece in line with modern issues and perspectives. Quite accessible to students as well as provocative to scholars."--Dirk T.D. Held, Connecticut College
"To the advanced student with a good grounding in the subject, it can be warmly recommended as a source of new insights and new approaches, and it can also be recommended to the student of other manifestations of ialtérité in search of Classical material for comparisons."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1993
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- ISBN 13 9780192891471
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