The Greco-Roman East
Subtitle: Politics, Culture, Society (Yale Classical Studies)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 16, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780521828758
Subjects: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Social history; History: World; History - General History; Ancient World; Europe; Ancient - General; History / Ancient / General; History; Middle East; To 622
First sentence: In late fifth-century Athens, the sophist Kritias, Plato's uncle and leader of the Thirty, presented in his satyr play Stsyphus the following scenario of how belief in gods came about: in the earliest times mortals used to live like animals, subject to the power of the mightiest among them.