Out of One, Many : Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture / Jennifer T. Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Jennifer T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greece--Intellectual life--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and history of the Greeks, Jennifer Roberts traces not only the common values that united them across the seas and the centuries, but also the enormous diversity in their ideas and beliefs. Examining the huge importance to the Greeks of religion, mythology, the Homeric epics, tragic and comic drama, philosophy, and the city-state, the book offers shifting perspectives on an extraordinary and astonishingly creative people. Century after century, in one medium after another, the Greeks addressed big questions, many of which are still very much with us, from whether gods exist and what happens after we die to what political system is best and how we can know what is real. Yet for all their virtues, Greek men set themselves apart from women and foreigners and profited from the unpaid labor of enslaved workers, and the book also looks at the mixed legacy of the ancient Greeks today.The result is a rich, wide-ranging, and compelling history of a fascinating and profoundly influential culture in all its complexity--and the myriad ways, good and bad, it continues to shape us today.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Time Line

Prologue: They Contain Multitudes

Chapter 1: A World of the Imagination

Chapter 2: The Heroic Past

Chapter 3: Meeting the Greeks

Chapter 4: The Polis-City and State

Chapter 5: Foreigners, Slaves, and Sex[ism]

Chapter 6: Giving the Gods Their Due

Chapter 7: The Thrill of Victory

Chapter 8: The Search for Meaning

Chapter 9: Life after Life

Epilogue: The Greeks among Us

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Roberts, Jennifer T. Out of One, Many

ISBN:

9780691243856

OCLC:

1423131425