The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others (Opus)

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. This new edition contains an updated bibliography, a new chapter entitled "Entr'acte: Others in Images and Images of Others," and a new afterword. Blank Panel Layouts Comic For Kids Draw Your Own Comics With This Blank Comic Book. This Blank Comic Book Has:100 Pages Of Variety Of Panel Action Layout Templates. Kids Love Making Their Own Cartoons And Comics And This Blank Comic Book For Kids Is The Book You Need. Filled With Comic Book Templates Of Various Styles, With Over 100 Pages, This Book Will Keep Budding Artists Busy For Hours. This Is A Big Comic Book, 8.5 X 11 So Lots Of Room For Them To Immerse Themselves In Their Own Creativity. It Is The Perfect Gift For The Holidays As Kids Will Have The Time To Sit Down And Draw. Order Your Blank Comic Book For Kids Today And Let Them Create Their Own Comics. Good Quality White Paper. Size 8.5 X11 (large). High Quality Matte Cover. Suitable For Students, Artists, Teens, Kids And Adults. Perfect For Sketching And Drawing Comic Strips. "The Greeks were the inventors of history as we understand it. Yet their historiography remained rooted in myth, and the social context of the inventions for which we rightly treasure their achievements - democracy, philosophy, theatre - was often deeply alien to our own way of thinking and acting. The aim of this book is to explore that achievement. Paul Cartledge does so by presenting a fascinating portrait of the Greeks in terms of their own self-image, and explores how the dominant Greeks - adult, male, citizens - sought, with limited success, to define themselves in polar opposition to non-Greeks, women, non-citizens, slaves, and gods."--BOOK JACKET. The Greeks were the inventors of history as we understand it. Yet their historiography remained rooted in myth, and the social context of the inventions for which we rightly treasure their achievements -- democracy, philosophy, theatre -- was often deeply alien to our own ways of thinking and acting. The aim of this book is to explore that achievement: Paul Cartledge does so by presenting a fascinating portrait of the Greeks in terms of their own self-image, and explores how the dominant Greeks -- adult, male, citizens -- sought, with limited success, to define themselves in polar opposition to non-Greeks, women, non-citizens, slaves, and gods. My approach to the ancient Greeks is informed by that 'comparativist perspective' without which students of Greek antiquity will easily mistake, indeed can hardly fail to mistake, what may be distinctive, and what may be said to be in no way exceptional, either in the intellectual products of the society they study or in the circumstances and manner of their production.