Prologue
1: Significant Others: Us v. Them
2: Inventing the Past: History v. Myth
Entr'acte: Others in Images and Images of Others
3: Alien Wisdom: Greeks v. Barbarians
4: Engendering History: Men v. Women
5: In the Club: Citizens v. Aliens
6: Of Inhuman Bondage: Free v. Slave
7: Knowing Your Place: Gods v. Mortals
Epilogue
Further Reading
Bibliography
Index
Paul Cartledge is Reader in Greek History at the University of Cambridge. His publications include The Cambridge Illustrated History of Greece (CUP, 1997) and The Greeks (BBC, 2001).
`Review from previous edition a useful antidote to British
sentimentality about ancient Greece'
Philip Howard, The Times
`Paul Cartledge's sharp and unsentimental new introduction to [the
Greeks'] mentality ... forcefully shows that freedom-loving
citizens could live at ease among hordes of slaves.'
Boyd Tonkin, New Statesman & Society
`the lively and succinct development of many ancient nad modern
arguments makes The Greeks a welcome and timely contribution to a
number of continuing and important debates'
Times Literary Supplement
`lively, and very topical, book ... I know of no better book with
which to introduce this 'portrait of self and others' to students
at the sixth-form level or above.'
Greece & Rome
`He adopts a lightly unusual approach and discusses the 'dominant'
group - male citizens - in its relations with woman, slaves,
barbarians and the gods. It is an interesting approach.'
Contemporary Review
`With The Greeks Cartledge has achieved an up-to-date synthesis of
Hellenic central concepts, thus furnishing teachers of ancient
history and civilization with a valuable instrument, as I
experienced in Greece when teaching European youth about their
identity.'
Mnemosyne
`Cartledge's The Greeks is bracingly enthusiastic with
inter-disciplinary influences and interests.'
The Sunday Times
`a study of the rise of a mentality, written in brilliant style,
important, sometimes iconoclastic'
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