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Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity

By Ineke Sluiter , Ralph M. Rosen

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2010
ISBN
9004189211, 9789004189218
ISSN
0169-8958
Google Books ID
hyccIuHwBz0C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7411335 bytes)
Series
Mnemosyne Supplements 323
Pages
XII+476\489
Topic
Literature
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2013-03-21 22:16:45

Description

How does a discourse of valuing others help to make a group a group? The fifth in a series exploring ancient values, this book investigates what value terms and evaluative concepts were used in Greece and Rome to articulate the idea that people belong together, as a family, a group, a polis, a community, or just as fellow human beings. Human communities thrive on prosocial behavior. In eighteen chapters, ranging from Greek tragedy to the Roman gladiators and from house architecture to the concept of friendship, this book demonstrates how such behavior is anchored and promoted by culturally specific expressions of evaluative discourse.Valuing others in classical antiquity should be of interest to linguists, literary scholars, historians, and philosophers alike.

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