Prentice Hall Life Science

by Padilla, Michael J.; Miaoulis, Ioannis; Cyr, Martha; Coolidge-Stolz, Elizabeth, M.D.; Cronkite, Donald, Ph.D.; Jenner, Jan

• ISBN13: 9780131901193
• ISBN10: 0131901192
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-15
• Publisher: PRENTICE HALL SCHOOL GROUP

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(1)
Mortals: The Body in Classical Antiquity	8	(68)
From cradle to grave
Cosmetics and the art of looking good
Athletics
Bathtime
Erotics
Diet
Medicine
Higher Powers: Gods and Heroes	76	(32)
Pantheons and pagans
Imagining and imaging the divine
Heroic intermediaries
Cultic performance
A place for the gods
Myth in the Making	108	(32)
Myths about myth
The Iliad and the Odyssey
Excavating Homer
`Greek' myth abroad
Trojan aspirations and Roman receptions
Manipulating Nature	140	(26)
Managing the countryside
`Beyond the acropolis'
Landscape and gardens
Natural resources
Craft specialization
Political Animals	166	(40)
Founding fathers: democrats and republicans
Mythologizing political origins
Styling civic power
Situating the city
Citizen right and military might
Oikos and Economy	206	(24)
House and home
Slaves in the Classical economy
Trading abroad
A monetary system?
Philosophy and Education	230	(16)
`The unexamined life is not worth living'
The `schools' of Classical philosophy
Paideia and the principles of Classical education
Dionysos: Apollo	246	(38)
A philosopher's polarity
Wining, dining, and Dionysizing
Acting out Dionysos
`Know thyself': Apollo and cosmic harmony
The Classical Tradition of Art	284	(22)
Classical aesthetika
A chronological synthesis
The Present Classical Past	306	(26)
`Decline and fall' -- or the stuff of dreams?
`Speaking stones': the Parthenon
Claims on the Classical
Cinematic classics
Knocking the ruins
Classical pasts, presents, and futures
Reference
Map	332	(2)
Timeline	334	(4)
Classical Lives	338	(10)
Classical Mythology: A Guide	348	(8)
Glossary	356	(3)
Further Reading	359	(3)
Acknowledgments for Illustrations	362	(2)
Index	364