The Greeks - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226853837 ISBN 13: 9780226853833

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1995

Synopsis

What do we mean when we speak of ancient Greeks? A person from the Archaic period? The war hero celebrated by Homer? Or the fourth century "political animal" described by Aristotle? In this book, leading scholars show what it meant to be Greek during the classical period of Greek civilization.

The Greeks offers the most complete portraits available of typical Greek personages from Athens to Sparta, Arcadia, Thessaly and Epirus to the city-states of Asia Minor, to the colonies of the Black Sea, southern Italy, and Sicily. Looking at the citizen, the religious believer, the soldier, the servant, the peasant, and others, they show what—in the Greek relationships with the divine, with nature, with others, and with the self—made him "different" in his ways of acting, thinking, and feeling.

The contributors to this volume are Jean-Pierre Vernant, Claude Mosse, Yvon Garlan, Giuseppe Cambiano, Luciano Canfora, James Redfield, Charles Segal, Oswyn Murray, Mario Vegetti, and Philippe Borgeaud.

About this title

About the Author:

Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914–2007) was a French classicist and anthropologist, specializing in ancient Greece. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including The Origins of Greek Thought and Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece.

Language Notes:

Text: English
Original Language: Italian

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0226853837
• ISBN 13: 9780226853833
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326
• Editor: Vernant Jean-Pierre