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The Greeks

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.

326 pages | 6 x 9 | © 1995

Ancient Studies

Table of Contents

Translators’ Note
Introduction
Jean-Pierre Vernant
1: The Economist
Claude Mosse
2: War and Peace
Yvon Garlan
3: Becoming an Adult
Giuseppe Cambiano
4: The Citizen
Luciano Canfora
5: Homo Domesticus
James Redfield
6: Spectator and Listener
Charles Segal
7: Forms of Sociality
Oswyn Murray
8: The Greeks and Their Gods
Mario Vegetti
9: The Rustic
Philippe Borgeaud
Index

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