Griechische Sozialgeschichte. Von der Mykenischen bis zum Ausgang der klassischen Zeit. - GSCHNITZER, Fr.,

KORTE INHOUD

?Changes in the University curricula reflect themselves in an increasing need for short introductions in the main subject of modern historical interests. G. has written a sympathetic book on the archaic and classical Greek social history. In his introduction he defines, without resorting to modern sociological jargon, social history as a discipline which above all should describe the social structure of society, i.e. the various social strata within in. (?) The reader finds nothing about spectacular subjects like women, youth, leisure-time, sports, the gymnasium, and hardly anything at all about education. G. (p.7) prefers the concept of ?Stand? to that of ?Klasse?, thereby following (?) the Weber-Finley line against the Marxists à la de SteCroix. Both groups agree on the large amount of exploitation of the poor by the rich but the former deny the appropriateness of the class-concept, solely based on material wealth, and of the class-struggle. G.?s first two chapters are devoted to Mycenaean and Homeric socie... Lees verder...

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1981Uitgever: Steiner Verlag