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THE SCIENCE OF MAN IN ANCIENT GREECE = НАУКА О ЧЕЛОВЕКЕ В ДРЕВНЕЙ ГРЕЦИИ

Bibliographic Description

The Science of Man in Ancient Greece = Наука о человеке в Древней Греции / Sassi, Maria Michela. – London : The University of Chicago Press, 2001. – ISBN 0-226-73530-3.

Author
Sassi, Maria Michela
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Year of publication
2001
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Language
English
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Access
Available to all

Description

Although the ancient Greeks did not have an anthropology as we know it, they did have an acute interest in human nature, especially questions of difference. What makes men different from women, slaves different from free men, barbarians different from Greeks? Are these differences visible in the body? How can they be classified and explained?

Maria Michela Sassi reconstructs Greek attempts to answer such questions from Homer's day to late antiquity, ranging across physiognomy, ethnography, geography, medicine, and astrology. Sassi demonstrates that in the Greek science of man, empirical observations were inextricably bound up with a prejudiced view of the free Greek male as superior to all others.