The Black Hunter
Subtitle: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World
Contributors: Andrew Szegedy-Maszak (Translator)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: July 9, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780801859519
Subjects: Cultural studies; Myths & mythology; History: World; Ancient Greece - History; History; History - General History; Ancient Greece; Ancient - Greece; Ancient and Classical; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical
First sentence: Writing the history of civilization is beset by a double danger: a first approach makes it a kind of annex that would include art, fashion, funeral rites, cuisine, in a word everything that does not come under the heading of political history, or social and economic history, or the history of ideas; the second approach, in reaction to the first, assumes that all phenomena-religious, artistic, social, economic, and intellectual-that appear at the same time in the same group of people "have among them enough essential links to constitute an entity that is endowed with a particular unity and structure more or less like those of an organism."