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The Roman World of Dio Chrysostom
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ISBN: 0674181336 0674181344 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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The Greek orator Dio Chrysostom is a colorful figure, and along with Plutarch one of the major sources of information about Greek civilization during the early Roman Empire. C.P. Jones offers here the first full-length portrait of Dio in English and, at the same time, a view of life in cities such as Alexandria, Tarsus, and Rhodes in the first centuries of our era. Skillfully combining literary and historical evidence, Mr. Jones describes Dio's birthplace, education, and early career. He examines the civic speeches for what they reveal about Dio's life and art, as well as the life, thought, and language of Greek cities in this period. From these and other works he reinterprets Dio's attitude toward the emperors and Rome. The account is as lucid and pleasantly written as it is carefully documented.

The ages of Homer : a tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule
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ISBN: 0292711697 Year: 1995 Publisher: Austin (TX) : University of Texas Press,


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Die homerische Gesellschaft : Materialien zur analytischen Beschreibung und historischen Lokalisierung.
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ISBN: 3406344097 9783406344091 Year: 1990 Volume: 43 Publisher: München Beck


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Secrets from the Greek Kitchen : Cooking, Skill, and Everyday Life on an Aegean Island
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ISBN: 0520280555 0520959302 9780520959309 9781322071275 1322071276 9780520280540 9780520280557 Year: 2014 Volume: 52 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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Secrets from the Greek Kitchen explores how cooking skills, practices, and knowledge on the island of Kalymnos are reinforced or transformed by contemporary events. Based on more than twenty years of research and the author's videos of everyday cooking techniques, this rich ethnography treats the kitchen as an environment in which people pursue tasks, display expertise, and confront culturally defined risks. Kalymnian islanders, both women and men, use food as a way of evoking personal and collective memory, creating an elaborate discourse on ingredients, tastes, and recipes. Author David E. Sutton focuses on micropractices in the kitchen, such as the cutting of onions, the use of a can opener, and the rolling of phyllo dough, along with cultural changes, such as the rise of televised cooking shows, to reveal new perspectives on the anthropology of everyday living.

Making modern mothers : ethics and family planning in urban greece
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ISBN: 9786612762918 1597347272 1282762915 0520937139 9780520937130 1417522828 9781417522828 0520223713 9780520223714 0520238206 9780520238206 9781597347273 6612762918 9781282762916 Year: 2004 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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In Greece, women speak of mothering as "within the nature" of a woman. But this durable association of motherhood with femininity exists in tension with the highest incidence of abortion and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. In this setting, how do women think of themselves as proper individuals, mothers, and Greek citizens? In this anthropological study of reproductive politics and ethics in Athens, Greece, Heather Paxson tracks the effects of increasing consumerism and imported biomedical family planning methods, showing how women's "nature" is being transformed to meet crosscutting claims of the contemporary world. Locating profound ambivalence in people's ethical evaluations of gender and fertility control, Paxson offers a far-reaching analysis of conflicting assumptions about what it takes to be a good mother and a good woman in modern Greece, where assertions of cultural tradition unfold against a backdrop of European Union integration, economic struggle, and national demographic anxiety over a falling birth rate.

Reciprocity and ritual : Homer and tragedy in the developing city-state
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ISBN: 0198149492 9780198149491 Year: 1994 Publisher: Oxford [England] New York Clarendon Press

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Greece in literature --- Griekenland in de literatuur --- Grèce dans la littérature --- Ritual in literature --- Ritueel in de literatuur --- Rituel dans la littérature --- Greek literature --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Epic poetry, Greek --- Literature and anthropology --- Dionysus (Greek deity) --- Ritual in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Cult. --- -Greek drama (Tragedy) --- -Epic poetry, Greek --- -Literature and anthropology --- -Dionysus (Greek deity) --- -Ritual in literature --- Anthropology and literature --- Anthropology --- Greek epic poetry --- Epic poetry, Classical --- Greek poetry --- Balkan literature --- Byzantine literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- History and criticism --- Cult --- Homer --- -Criticism and interpretation --- Greece --- Civilization. --- In literature. --- -Hóiméar --- Hūmīrūs --- Homeros --- Homerus --- Gomer --- Omir --- Omer --- Omero --- Ho-ma --- Homa --- Homérosz --- האמער --- הומירוס --- הומר --- הומרוס --- هومر --- هوميروس --- 荷马 --- Ὅμηρος --- Гамэр --- Hamėr --- Омир --- Homero --- 호메로스 --- Homerosŭ --- Homērs --- Homeras --- Хомер --- ホメーロス --- ホメロス --- Гомер --- Homeri --- Hema --- Pseudo-Homer --- Pseudo Omero --- Criticism and interpretation --- -Homer --- Homère --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Epic poetry [Greek ] --- Civilization --- Contemporary Greece --- Literature and anthropology - Greece. --- Hóiméar --- Greek literature - History and criticism. --- Greek drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism. --- Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism. --- Dionysus (Greek deity) - Cult.

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