The Greek Praise of Poverty
Subtitle: Origins of Ancient Cynicism
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: February 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780268025816
Subjects: Ancient Greek & Roman philosophy; History; Philosophy; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient - Greece; History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; Movements - General; Cynicism; Cynics (Greek philosophy); Poverty
First sentence: In antiquity, mainland Greece and its Aegean islands were poor places.