Greeks Bearing Gifts: The Public Use of Private Relationships in the Greek World, 435 323 BC

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Greeks Bearing Gifts: The Public Use of Private Relationships in the Greek World, 435 323 BCUsing models from social anthropology as its basis, this book looks at the role of personal relationships in classical Greece and their bearing on interstate politics. It begins with a discussion of what friendship meant in the Greek world of the classical period, and then shows how the models for friendship in the private sphere were mirrored in the public sphere at both domestic and interstate level. As well as relations between Greeks (in

τόσο για τη φόρμουλα όσο και για τον δημιουργό της

Here the author invents nothing

this innovative cultural study of the genre offers a radical reassessment of its importance in the symbolic economy of imperial and later antiquity

which has been prominent in much recent discussion

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The conquest that begot the Roman Empire

from mythic beginnings through Alexander the Great

Placita long served as a manual of neatly packaged doxographic material on a wide variety of topics

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and on the choices that make us who we are

One autumn day in 2002

(Translated by Father George Papadeas)