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| #3286687 in Books | TV Books | 2000-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.09 x6.25 x9.25l, | File type: PDF | 280 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Otherness|By Marcos|A very good analysis about the Greeks and their culture. The author explores the idea of otherness, in a surprising and enlightening way. We are heirs of the values of Greek culture, but not all of their values because we live in another world.|1 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Written during the|From Publishers Weekly|An unusual approach is taken here by Cartledge, a respected scholar of ancient history at the University of Cambridge. A companion volume to a PBS series that aired this month, the book doesn't offer a chronologically anchored narrative of
Who were the classical Greeks? Paul Cartledge examines the Greeks in terms of their own self-image, mainly as it was presented by the supposedly objective historians - Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon. The Greeks were the inventors of history as it is understood today, just as they are the cultural ancestors of the West in so many other ways. Yet their historiography remained rooted in myth. The mental and material context of many of the inventions of Greek achievement...
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