This informative and enjoyable book surveys many aspects of the
personal and emotional lives and belief systems of the ancient
Greeks, focusing on such issues as familial life, religious piety,
and ethnic identity. 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. Provides an unprecedented
survey of ancient Greeks that describes the full scope of the
personal and emotional lives of the actual people who gave rise to
Greek laws, literature, and culture Reconstructs the everyday,
emotional experiences of individuals in the ancient world and
depicts the ways in which details of private life affected the
individual's world view Covers all regions inhabited by the Greeks
from the Archaic through the Classical periods, including the Greek
mainland and islands, western Turkey, the Black Sea, North Africa,
Sicily, and southern Italy
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