Valuing others in classical antiquity /

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Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 476 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Mnemosyne. Supplements ; v. 323. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 323. Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature.
Subject:	Social values -- Greece. Social values -- Rome. Difference (Philosophy) Group identity -- Greece -- History. Group identity -- Rome -- History. Civilization. Difference (Philosophy) Group identity. Social values. Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C. Rome -- Civilization. Greece. Rome (Empire) Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11161411

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Other authors / contributors:	Rosen, Ralph Mark. Sluiter, I. (Ineke)
ISBN:	9789004192331 9004192336 9789004189218 9004189211
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Valuing others in classical antiquity. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004189218

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