Cartledge - The Greeks : a portrait of self and others

THE GREEKS

Paul Cartledge is Professor of Greek History, Chairman of the Faculty of Classics, and a Fellow of Clare College, at the University of Cambridge. Publications include most recently The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization (BBC Worldwide, 2001) and Spartan Reflections (Duckworth/University of California Press, 2001).

Cartledges The Greeks is bracingly enthusiastic with inter-disciplinary influences and interests.

The Sunday Times

the lively and succinct development of many ancient and modern arguments makes The Greeks a welcome and timely contribution to a number of continuing and important debates

Times Literary Supplement

it can be warmly recommended as a source of new insights and new approaches.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review

I know of no better book with which to introduce this portrait of self and others to students.

Greece & Rome

a study of the rise of a mentality, written in brilliant style, important, sometimes iconoclastic

Il pensiero politico

To the St Pauls Schools, London, and
the Faculty of Classics, University
of Cambridge

A Portrait of Self and Others

SECOND EDITION

PAUL CARTLEDGE

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First published 1993 as an Oxford University Press paperback and simultaneously in a hardback edition Reissued 2002

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Cartledge, Paul.
The Greeks: a portrait of self and others / Paul Cartledge.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. National characteristics, Greek. 2. Difference (Philosophy).
3. GreeceCivilizationTo 146 B.C. I. Title.
938dc20 DF78.C28 1993 92-45898
ISBN 0-19-280388-3

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I HAVE to thank, first, the Oxford University Press, especially the academic editors of the OPUS series and its editorial director Ms Catherine Clarke, for the challenge they posed me by commissioning this book. Secondly, I am in the debt of David Konstan of Brown University, and Lene Rubinstein of Churchill College, Cambridge, who quite out of the line of normal duty subjected my penultimate and ultimate drafts respectively to the most searching and fruitful cross-examination. Thirdly, I have, I trust, profited from the observations of Oxfords peculiarly acute and assiduous anonymous reader. But above all this book is owed to the successive cohorts of Cambridge undergraduates who endured my The Greeks and the Other lectures between 1989/90 and 1992/3, and to the friends and colleagues who helped me with the teaching of the course: Peter Garnsey, Penny Glare, Simon Goldhill, Edith Hall, Jonathan Hall, John Henderson, Geoffrey Lloyd, Paul Millett, Neville Morley, Sitta von Reden, Dorothy Thompson, and (by no means least) Jonathan Walters. It is to the Faculty which they represent or have represented that this book is dedicated, in a spirit not of alienation but of homonoia, like-minded identification; as it is also to the St Pauls Schools, my other principal educational preoccupation, in the same spirit.

P.A.C.

Trumpington
September 1992

Catherine Clarke has kindly kept a watchful maternal eye over the volume since it was first published eight years ago, but the idea for the second edition has come from a successor editor at the OUP, George Miller, to whom I am indebted also for much wise advice. My new colleague Robin Osborne, the Presss anonymous reader for the first edition, has compounded my debt by reading and advising on the new illustrated Entracte below. I should also like to thank warmly the three translators of the revised English edition of The Greeks into respectively German and Japanese: their names will be found in the first note to the New Afterword.

Trumpington
October 2001

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