The Gift Of The Greek
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Greeks Bearing Gifts
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Author : Lynette Gail Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-05-02
Greeks Bearing Gifts written by Lynette Gail Mitchell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-02 with History categories.
Using models from social anthropology as its basis, this book looks at the role of personal relationships in classical Greece and their bearing on interstate politics. It begins with a discussion of what friendship meant in the Greek world of the classical period, and then shows how the models for friendship in the private sphere were mirrored in the public sphere at both domestic and interstate level. As well as relations between Greeks (in particular those in Athens and Sparta), Dr Mitchell looks at Greek relations with those on the margins of the Greek world, particularly the state of Macedon, and with neighbouring non-Greeks such as the Thracians and the Persians. She finds that these other cultures did not always have the same understanding of what friendship was, and that this led to misunderstandings and difficulties in the relations between non-Greeks and Greeks.
The Gift In Antiquity
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Author : Michael Satlow
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-02-22
The Gift In Antiquity written by Michael Satlow and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Gift in Antiquity presents a collection of 14 original essays that apply French sociologist Marcel Mauss’s notion of gift-giving to the study of antiquity. Features a collection of original essays that cover such wide-ranging topics as vows in the Hebrew Bible; ancient Greek wedding gifts; Hellenistic civic practices; Latin literature; Roman and Jewish burial practices; and Jewish and Christian religious gifts Organizes essays around theoretical concerns rather than chronologically Generates unique insights into gift-giving and reciprocity in antiquity Takes an explicitly cross-cultural approach to the study of ancient history
Dangerous Gifts
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Author : Deborah Lyons
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2012-06-01
Dangerous Gifts written by Deborah Lyons and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with History categories.
Deianeira sends her husband Herakles a poisoned robe. Eriphyle trades the life of her husband Amphiaraos for a golden necklace. Atreus’s wife Aerope gives away the token of his sovereignty, a lamb with a golden fleece, to his brother Thyestes, who has seduced her. Gifts and exchanges always involve a certain risk in any culture, but in the ancient Greek imagination, women and gifts appear to be a particularly deadly combination. This book explores the role of gender in exchange as represented in ancient Greek culture, including Homeric epic and tragedy, non-literary texts, and iconographic and historical evidence of various kinds. Using extensive insights from anthropological work on marriage, kinship, and exchange, as well as ethnographic parallels from other traditional societies, Deborah Lyons probes the gendered division of labor among both gods and mortals, the role of marriage (and its failure) in transforming women from objects to agents of exchange, the equivocal nature of women as exchange-partners, and the importance of the sister-brother bond in understanding the economic and social place of women in ancient Greece. Her findings not only enlarge our understanding of social attitudes and practices in Greek antiquity but also demonstrate the applicability of ethnographic techniques and anthropological theory to the study of ancient societies.
The Fabric Of Gifts
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Author : Beate Wagner-Hasel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-06
The Fabric Of Gifts written by Beate Wagner-Hasel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06 with categories.
When the Greek leader Agamemnon took for himself the woman awarded to Achilles as his spoils of battle, the warrior's resulting anger and outrage nearly cost his side the war. Beyond the woman herself was what she symbolised - a matter of esteem rather than material value. In Archaic Greece the practices of gift giving existed alongside an economy of market relations. The value of gifts and the meanings of exchange in ancient societies are fundamental to the debates of 19th-century economists, to Marcel Mauss's famous Essai sur le don (1923-4), and to the definition of experiential value by modern philosopher Yanis Varoufakis. In this book Beate Wagner-Hasel analyses the sensory content and the social context of many examples of Greeks bearing gifts: to guests, at sacrificial rituals and at funerals, to brides and to heroes. The fabric of these gifts unfolds a panorama of social networks and models of rulership embedded in a world of pastoral and textile economy. Among the gifted objects that represent this world, textiles offer the clearest representation of social cohesion - the key value ascribed to the gift by the earliest theorists of gift-giving.
Greeks And Romans Bearing Gifts
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Author : Carl J. Richard
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2008
Greeks And Romans Bearing Gifts written by Carl J. Richard and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
This lively and engaging book is the only popular work to explore the profound impact of Ancient Greece and Rome on the founding fathers. Recounting the stirring stories the founders encountered in their favorite histories of Greece and Rome, renowned scholar Carl J. Richard explores what they learned from these vivid tales and how they applied these lessons to their own heroic quest to win American independence and establish a durable republic.
Gifts Of The Gods
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Author : Andrew Dalby
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2017-11-15
Gifts Of The Gods written by Andrew Dalby and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-15 with Cooking categories.
What do we think about when we think about Greek food? For many, it is the meze and the traditional plates of a Greek island taverna at the height of summer. In Gifts of the Gods, Andrew and Rachel Dalby take us into and beyond the taverna in our minds to offer us a unique and comprehensive history of the foods of Greece. Greek food is brimming with thousands of years of history, lore, and culture. The country has one of the most varied landscapes of Europe, where steep mountains, low-lying plains, rocky islands, and crystal-blue seas jostle one another and produce food and wine of immense quality and distinctive taste. The book discusses how the land was settled, what was grown in different regions, and how certain fruits, herbs, and vegetables became a part of local cuisines. Moving through history—from classical to modern—the book explores the country’s regional food identities as well as the export of Greek food to communities all over the world. The book culminates with a look at one of the most distinctive features of Greece’s food tradition—the country’s world renown hospitality. Illustrated throughout and featuring traditional recipes that blend historical and modern flavors, Gifts of the Gods is a mouth-watering account of a rich and ancient cuisine.
Benefactors And The Polis
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Author : Marc Domingo Gygax
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-18
Benefactors And The Polis written by Marc Domingo Gygax and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-18 with History categories.
Analyses elite public generosity as a structural feature of the polis throughout all periods of ancient Greek history.
The Greek Gift
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Author : Peter Loizos
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
The Greek Gift written by Peter Loizos and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Cyprus categories.
The Gift Of The Nile
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Author : Phiroze Vasunia
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2001-12-04
The Gift Of The Nile written by Phiroze Vasunia and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-04 with History categories.
The Egyptians mesmerized the ancient Greeks for scores of years. The Greek literature and art of the classical period are especially thick with representations of Egypt and Egyptians. Yet despite numerous firsthand contacts with Egypt, Greek writers constructed their own Egypt, one that differed in significant ways from actual Egyptian history, society, and culture. Informed by recent work on orientalism and colonialism, this book unravels the significance of these misrepresentations of Egypt in the Greek cultural imagination in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. Looking in particular at issues of identity, otherness, and cultural anxiety, Phiroze Vasunia shows how Greek authors constructed an image of Egypt that reflected their own attitudes and prejudices about Greece itself. He focuses his discussion on Aeschylus Suppliants; Book 2 of Herodotus; Euripides' Helen; Plato's Phaedrus, Timaeus, and Critias; and Isocrates' Busiris. Reconstructing the history of the bias that informed these writings, Vasunia shows that Egypt in these works was shaped in relation to Greek institutions, values, and ideas on such subjects as gender and sexuality, death, writing, and political and ethnic identity. This study traces the tendentiousness of Greek representations by introducing comparative Egyptian material, thus interrogating the Greek texts and authors from a cross-cultural perspective. A final chapter also considers the invasion of Egypt by Alexander the Great and shows how he exploited and revised the discursive tradition in his conquest of the country. Firmly and knowledgeably rooted in classical studies and the ancient sources, this study takes a broad look at the issue of cross-cultural exchange in antiquity by framing it within the perspective of contemporary cultural studies. In addition, this provocative and original work shows how Greek writers made possible literary Europe's most persistent and adaptable obsession: the barbarian.
Gifts From The Gods
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Author : Lise Lunge-Larsen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-11
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From the ancient stories of the Greeks--stories that range so true and wise that the names of the characters have survived for centuries as words we use every day.