Salt and olives : morality and custom in ancient Greece /
"John Dillon's exploration of Athenian society brings to life how the ancient Greeks behaved towards each other. In each chapter two or more stories drawn from ancient sources give contrasting perspectives on the Greeks' attitudes and beliefs, and to discussions of the works of litera...
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Edinburgh University Press,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The family : for better or worse
- 2. Outside the fold, beyond the pale : problems of non-citizen women
- 3. Preserving the Oikos : the woes of inheritance
- 4. The best of enemies : patterns of friendship and enmity
- 5. A peculiar institution : the etiquette of homosexual relationships
- 6. Slaves and slave-masters
- 7. Dealing with the gods: piety and impiety
- 8. A vision of the past : the role of the anecdote in the formation of the Athenian self-image.