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Although humanity has changed since the times of the ancient Greeks, this study claims that the differences are not to be traced to a shift in basic conceptions of ethical life. We are more like the ancients than we are prepared to acknowledge, and only when this is understood can we properly grasp our most important differences from them, such as our rejection of slavery. This treatise is directed towards writers such as Homer and the tragedians. At the centre of the study is the question of how we can understand Greek ...

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Shame and Necessity 1994, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

ISBN-13: 9780520088306

Revised edition

Trade paperback

Shame and Necessity 1993, University of California Press, Berkerley

ISBN-13: 9780520080461

Hardcover