Intimate lives of the ancient Greeks
By: Stephanie Lynn Budin
Series: Intimate lives of the ancient peoples
Publisher: Praeger, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780313385711; 9780313385728
Subjects: Civilization; Social life and customs
Description: Overview: This work explores various aspects of ancient Greek personal and emotional lives, beginning with their understandings of their own bodies, individual and personal relationships, and ending with their feelings about religion and the afterlife. It covers ancient Greek culture from the early Archaic period in the 8th century BCE through the Late Classical period in the 4th century BCE. Readers will be fascinated to learn what the Greeks thought about the gods, physical deformity, citizenship, nymphs, goats, hospitality, and sexual relations that would be considered incest by modern standards. The content of the book provides an intimate sense of what the ancient Greeks were actually like, connecting ancient experiences to present-day culture. The chapters span a wide range of topics, including the human body, family and societal relationships, city life, the world as they knew it, and religious belief. The author draws extensively on primary sources to allow the reader to "hear" the Greeks speak for themselves and presents evidence from literature, art, and architecture in order to depict the ancient Greeks as living, breathing, thinking, and feeling people.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-333) and indexes.