Conventional Values of the Hellenistic Greeks
Aarhus University Press (Verlag)
978-87-7288-555-1 (ISBN)
The contributors to this volume seek to decipher the Hellenistic citizens' views on vital elements of their society: the city, the ruler, religion, magic and astrology, everyday life and social relations (family and gender), morality, uses of the past, and the iconography of death. How did the changes in political and social ideas affect actions and practices, which in turn again altered concepts? Moreover, the authors distinguish between the views of the common people and the elite, the evidence from inscriptions (seen as popular sentiment) and the evidence from literature (from the elite). The authors' conclusions have broad ramifications for future scholars in a field that has not hitherto received much attention. This volume is essential reading on the early development of individualism and the history of ideas.
Lise Hannestad is Senior Associate Professor at the Department for Classical Archaeology, University of Aarhus.
Introduction; Public Feasts in the Hellenistic Greek City: Forms and Meanings; Society, Consanguinity and the Fertility of Women: The Community of Deities on the Great Frieze of the Pergamum Altar as a Paradigm of Cross-Cultural Ideas; Daimon and Tuche in the Hellenistic Religious Experience; Hellenistic Superstition: The Problems of Defining a Vice; Hellenistic Magic and Astrology; Conventional Values of the Hellenistic Greeks: The Evidence from Astrology; A Professor and his Slave: Conventions and Values in the Life of Aesop; Family Values: The Uses of the Past; Grave Gifts, Women, and Conventional Values in Hellenistic Athens; Conventional Values in the Hellenistic World: Masculinity; Death on Delos: Conventions in an International Context; Index of Persons; Index of Modern Authors; Geographical Index; Index.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.8.1997 |
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Reihe/Serie | (Studies in Hellenistic Civilisation Series) |
Zusatzinfo | illus |
Verlagsort | Aarhus |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 87-7288-555-6 / 8772885556 |
ISBN-13 | 978-87-7288-555-1 / 9788772885551 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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