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Book SynopsisOffers a prehistory of hierarchy. Using structural anthropology, symbolic analysis, and recent literary theory, Page duBois demonstrates a shift in Greek thought from the fifth to the fourth century BC that had a profound influence upon subsequent Western culture and politics.
Trade ReviewThe myths of
Centaurs and Amazons are particularly illuminating; here we see a conceptual parallelism of beast and woman that have to be defeated to ensure the survival of Hellenism itself. . . . The picture that emerges from Professor duBois's investigations of the archaic and classical periods is not a very pretty one to contemplate, but the lessons are there to be learned." —Gregory Nagy, Harvard University
"Its great virtue lies in its bringing together of material in various fields—literature, philosophy, art, history—in order to characterize basic ways of thinking in a culture." —
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
