The Greeks

by Jean-Pierre Vernant, Charles Lambert, Teresa Lavender Fagan

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Description This work explores what it meant to be Greek during the classical period of Greek civilization. Looking at a variety of social classes in regions such as Athens, Sparta, Arcadia and various Greek colonies, the text analyzes what made the Greek "different" in ways of acting, thinking and feeling.

Publisher Description

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.

Author Biography

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. Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator living in Chicago; she has translated numerous books for the University of Chicago Press and other publishers.

Details

  • ISBN 0226853837
  • ISBN-13 9780226853833
  • Title The Greeks
  • Author Jean-Pierre Vernant, Charles Lambert, Teresa Lavender Fagan
  • Format Paperback
  • Year 1995
  • Pages 326
  • Edition 2nd
  • Publisher The University of Chicago Press
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