| Title | : | The Greeks |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Paul Cartledge |
| Release | : | 2002-10-10 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Ancient History, Books, History, Nonfiction, Social Science, European History, Society, Philosophy |
| Size | : | 7723579 |
| Who were the Classical Greeks? This book provides an original and challenging answer by exploring how Greeks (adult, male, citizen) defined themselves in opposition to a whole series of others (non-Greeks, women, slaves, non-citizens, and gods) as presented by supposedly objective historians of the time such as Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon. Cartledge looks at the achievements and legacy of the Greeks - history, democracy, philosophy and theatre - and the mental and material contexts of these inventions which are often deeply alien to our own way of thinking and acting. |
