Title: The Greek world /
Authors: Powell, Anton
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Civilization history; Greek World; Greece Civilization; Mediterranean Region Civilization.; Greece Social conditions
Abstract: This ground-breaking new collection contains twenty-seven articles by specialists in ancient Greek history. Periods studied range from the Mycenaean to the late Hellenistic; the Greek cultures in question are not only those of mainland Greece, but also include Asia Minor, Egypt and Italy. Many of the essays in The Greek World are concerned with social history, especially the history of those who were at or beyond the margins of society such as women, the poor and slaves. In keeping with modern interests, several of the contributors look at those who were geographically at the edges of the Greek world. However, there is no disengagement here from the more traditional interests of classical scholarship. The Greek World shows how research into areas once considered peripheral can shed vital light on topics traditionally seen as central. Herodotus' work on Egypt is shown to reflect on his credibility as a source for Greek history. Plato's reforms are illuminated through a consideration of his impatient and revolutionary attitude to women. The most potent symbol of old-fashioned 'central' Greek history, the Parthenon, is shown to be understood more fully given a knowledge of the cosmetic techniques of (and gossip about) Athenian women. Social and political history interact in this volume, to the enlightenment of both.
Contents: Linear B as a source for social history / J.T. Hooker -- The economics and politics of slavery at Athens / Robin Osborne -- Hybris, status and slavery / Nick Fisher -- Non-aristocratic elements in archaic poetry / Alan Griffiths -- The place of the poet in archaic society / Rosalind Thomas -- The Greek novel: towards a sociology of production and reception / J.R. Morgan -- Politics and the battlefield: ideology in Greek warfare / Hans van Wees -- Greek piracy / Philip de Souza -- Medical texts as a source for women's history / Helen King -- Women and bastardy in ancient Greece and the Hellenistic world / Daniel Ogden -- Athens' pretty face: anti-feminine rhetoric and fifth-century controversy over the Parthenon / Anton Powell -- Herodotus on Egyptian buildings: a test case / Alan B. Lloyd -- Beyond the polis: women and economic opportunity in early Ptolemaic Egypt / Jane Rowlandson -- Why Philip won / Earl McQueen -- The Greeks in the west and the Hellenization of Italy / Kathryn Lomas -- Rome in the Greek world: the significance of a name / Andrew Erskine -- Diet, diaita and dietetics / Elizabeth Craik -- Greek engineering: the case of Eupalinos' tunnel / T.E. Rihll and J.V. Tucker -- Barbers' shops and perfume shops: 'symposia without wine' / Sian Lewis -- Bionic statues / Nigel Spivey -- Greek sacrifice: forms and functions / A.M. Bowie -- Early Orphism / Robert Parker -- Order, interaction, authority: ways of looking at Greek religion / Emily Kearns -- Ionian inquiries: on understanding the Presocratic beginnings of science / Edward Hussey -- Law and society in Thucydides / Simon Swain -- Plato's objections to the sophists / T.H. Irwin -- Plato on women in the Laws / T.J. Saunders.