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The Science of Man in Ancient Greece
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The Science of Man in Ancient Greece Hardcover - 2001 - 1st Edition

by Maria Michela Sassi; Paul Tucker (Translator)


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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. Thus, because women were assumed to have pale skin from staying indoors too much, Greek biology and medicine sought to explain this feature as an indication of the cold nature of women, as opposed to the hot constitution of men. For this English translation, Sassi has rewritten the introduction and updated the text and references throughout, and Sir Geoffrey Lloyd has provided a new foreword.

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Classical sources tell how, in the first half of the fourth century B.C., Parrhasius was criticized by his fellow painter Euphranor for depicting Theseus with the delicate color of a man "fed on roses" rather than on "ox meat," like Euphranor's own version of the hero.

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  • Title The Science of Man in Ancient Greece
  • Author Maria Michela Sassi; Paul Tucker (Translator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
  • Date February 1, 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780226735306 / 0226735303
  • Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.31 x 6.37 x 0.86 in (23.65 x 16.18 x 2.18 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Philosophy, Ancient, Philosophical anthropology - Greece - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00009177
  • Dewey Decimal Code 128.093

About the author

Maria Michela Sassi teaches at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. She is the author of Le teorie della percezione in Democrito and the translator and commentator of Plato's Apologia di Socrate, Critone.
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