The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others

284 Pages·2002·18.75 MB·English

by  Paul Anthony Cartledge

To the St Paul's Schools, London, and
the Faculty of Classics, University
of Cambridge
The Greeks
A Portrait of Self and Others
SECOND EDITION
PAUL CARTLEDGE
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The Greeks: a portrait of self and others / Paul Cartledge.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. National characteristics, Greek. 2. Difference (Philosophy).
3. Greece-Civilization-To 146 B.C. L Title.
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Acknowledgements
1 HA v E to thank, first, the Oxford University Press, especially
the academic editors of the OPUS series and its editorial
director Ms Catherine Clarke, for the challenge they posed me
by commissioning this book. Secondly, I am in the debt of
David Konstan of Brown University, and Lene Rubinstein
of Churchill College, Cambridge, who quite out of the line of
normal duty subjected my penultimate and ultimate drafts
respectively to the most searching and fruitful cross-examin
ation. Thirdly, I have, I trust, profited from the observations
of Oxford's peculiarly acute and assiduous anonymous reader.
But above all this book is owed to the successive cohorts of
Cambridge undergraduates who endured my 'The Greeks and
"the Other"' lectures between 1989/90 and 1992/3, and to the
friends and colleagues who helped me with the teaching of the
course: Peter Garnsey, Penny Glare, Simon Goldhill, Edith
Hall, Jonathan Hall, John Henderson, Geoffrey Lloyd, Paul
Millett, Neville Morley, Sitta von Reden, Dorothy Thompson,
and (by no means least) Jonathan Walters. It is to the Faculty
which they represent or have represented that this book is
dedicated, in a spirit not of alienation but of homonoia, like
minded identification; as it is also to the St Paul's Schools, my
other principal educational preoccupation, in the same spirit.
P.A.C.
Trumpington
September 1992
Acknowledgementsf or Second Edition
Catherine Clarke has kindly kept a watchful maternal eye over
the volume since it was first published eight years ago, but the
idea for the second edition has come from a successor editor at
the OUP, George Miller, to whom I am indebted also for much
wise advice. My new colleague Robin Osborne, the Press's
anonymous reader for the first edition, has compounded my debt
by reading and advising on the new illustrated 'Entr'acte' below. I
should also like to thank warmly the three translators of the
revised English edition of The Greeks into respectively German
and Japanese: their names will be found in the first note to the
New Afterword.
Trumping ton
October 200 I
Contents
Map 1. Hellas: The Greek World c-400 BCE viii
Map 2. The Aegean Heartland X
Chronological Reference Points xii
Abbreviations xiv
Illustrations XVI
Prologue
1. Significant Others: Us v. Them 8
2. Inventing the Past: History v. Myth 18
Entr'acte: Others in Images and Images of Others 36
3. Alien Wisdom: Greeks v. Barbarians 51
4. Engendering History: Men v. Women 78
5. In the Club: Citizens v. Aliens 105
6. Of Inhuman Bondage: Free v. Slave 133
7. Knowing Your Place: Gods v. Mortals 167
Epilogue 191
Afterword to the Second Edition (2001) 199
Further Reading 203
Bibliography 220
Index 253
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