Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 635 g
Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World
Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 635 g
ISBN: 978-0-8018-5951-9
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
"No one can fail to admire the brilliance of the connections Vidal-Naquet suggests. Audacity has been characteristic of Vidal-Naquet's career from the start; it marked his activities as a historian engagé in the political struggle; it is visible at work in every page of this book."—Bernard Knox, from the Foreword
The black hunter travels through the mountains and forests of Greek mythology, living on the frontier of the city-state, of adulthood, of class, of ethics, of sexuality. Taking its title from this figure, The Black Hunter approaches the Greek world from its margins and charts the elaborate system of oppositions that pervaded Greek culture and society: cultivated and wild, citizen and foreigner, real and imaginary, god and man. Organizing his discussions around four principle themes—space and time; youth and warriors; women, slaves, and artisans; and the city of vision and of reality—Pierre Vidal-Naquet focuses on the congruence of the textual and the actual, on the patterns that link literary, philosophical, and historical works with such social activities as war, slavery, education, and commemoration. The Black Hunter probes the interplay of world view, language, and social practice "to bring into dialogue that which does not naturally communicate according to the usual criteria of historical judgement."
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Forword, by Bernad Knox
Preface
By Way of Introduction: A Civilization of Political Discourse
Part I. Space and Time
Chapter 1. Land and Sacrifice in the Odyssey: A Study of Religious and Mythical Meanings
Chapter 2. Divine Time and Human Time
Chapter 3. Epaminondas the Pythagorean, or the Tactical Problem of Right and Left
Part II. The Young, the Warriors
Chapter 4. The Tradition of the Athenian Hoplite
Chapter 5. The Black Hunter and the Origin of the Athenian Ephebia
Chapter 6. Recipes for Greek Adolescence
Part III. Women, Slaves, and Artisans
Chapter 7. Were Greek Slaves a Class?
Chapter 8. Reflections on gReek Historical Writing about Slavery
Chapter 9. The Immortal Slave-Women of Athena Ilias
Chapter 10. Slavery and the Rule of Women in Tradition, Myth, and Utopia
Chapter 11. A Study in Ambiguity: Artisans in the Platonic City
Part IV. The City, Vision, and Reality
Chapter 12. Greek Rationality and the City
Chapter 13. Athens and Atlantis: Structure and Meaning of a Platonic Myth
Chapter 14. Plato's Myth of the Statesman, the Ambiguities of the Golden Age and of History
Chapter 15. An Enigma at Delphi
Bibliography
Index
