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Essays describe the Greek man in the classical period as a citizen, religious believer, soldier, merchant, servant, and peasant, from childhood to manhood, and reveal the characteristic traits of the Greek man's day-to-day activities in the major realms of collective life. Subjects include women's exclusion from citizenship and public life, women as characters in drama, women as concubines, illiteracy among women, and travel prohibitions for women. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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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.
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