The Classical Debt - Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity

¿Greek debt¿ means one thing to the country¿s creditors. But for millions who prize culture over capital, it means the symbolic debt we owe Greece for democracy, philosophy, mathematics, and fine art. Johanna Hanink shows that our idealized image of ancient Greece dangerously shapes our view of the country¿s economic hardship and refugee crisis.

About the author

Johanna Hanink is Associate Professor of Classics at Brown University.

Summary

“Greek debt” means one thing to the country’s creditors. But for millions who prize culture over capital, it means the symbolic debt we owe Greece for democracy, philosophy, mathematics, and fine art. Johanna Hanink shows that our idealized image of ancient Greece dangerously shapes our view of the country’s economic hardship and refugee crisis.

Product details

• Authors: Johanna Hanink, Hanink Johanna
• Publisher: Belknap press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780674971547
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97154-7
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 217 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, HISTORY / Historiography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion, Greece, Political science & theory, Economic theory & philosophy, Historiography