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Informationen zum Autor Stephanie Lynn Budin , PhD, is a professional writer specializing in ancient history, ancient Greece, and the Near East. Klappentext This informative and enjoyable book surveys many aspects of the personal and emotional lives and belief systems of the ancient Greeks, focusing on such issues as familial life, religious piety, and ethnic identity. This work explores various aspects of ancient Greek personal and emotional lives, beginning with their understandings of their own bodies, individual and personal relationships, and ending with their feelings about religion and the afterlife. It covers ancient Greek culture from the early Archaic period in the 8th century BCE through the Late Classical period in the 4th century BCE. Readers will be fascinated to learn what the Greeks thought about the gods, physical deformity, citizenship, nymphs, goats, hospitality, and sexual relations that would be considered incest by modern standards. The content of the book provides an intimate sense of what the ancient Greeks were actually like, connecting ancient experiences to present-day culture. The chapters span a wide range of topics, including the human body, family and societal relationships, city life, the world as they knew it, and religious belief. The author draws extensively on primary sources to allow the reader to "hear" the Greeks speak for themselves and presents evidence from literature, art, and architecture in order to depict the ancient Greeks as living, breathing, thinking, and feeling people. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface by Kevin M. McGeough Introduction 1 Peri Tês Autês : On the Self 2 Peri Oikias kai Aphroditês : On Family and Sexual Relationships 3 Peri Philias : On Friendship 4 Peri Synousias : On (Public) Relationships 5 Peri Poleôs kai Hellados : On City-State and Greece 6 Peri Tês Oikoumenês : On the World 7 Peri Hierôn : On Sacred Matters Bibliography Index Locorum Subject Index ...
