Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature
Gorman, Vanessa B, Gorman, Robert
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Description for Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature
Paperback. Traces the principle that luxury corrupts its possessor as seen through a millennium of Greek literature Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 649.
A widely accepted truism says that luxury corrupts, and in both popular and scholarly treatments, the ancient city of Sybaris remains the model for destructive opulence. This volume demonstrates the scarcity of evidence for Sybarite luxury, and examines the vocabulary of luxury used by the Hellenic world. Focus on the word truphe reveals it means an attitude of entitlement: not necessarily a bad trait, unless in extreme form. This pattern holds for all Classical evidence, even the historian Herodotus, where the idea of pernicious luxury is commonly thought to be thematic.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
492
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472052295
SKU
V9780472052295
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About Gorman, Vanessa B, Gorman, Robert
Robert J. Gorman is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Vanessa B. Gorman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Reviews for Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature
"[Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature is ] a work of great value by virtue of the compendium of source material the authors have collected, the attention they bring to the problem of quoted fragments, and the challenges to a scholarly consensus too long unexamined."
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Bryn Mawr Classical Review