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... Sparta. Drawing on a wide range of literary and archaeological evidence, JamesRedfield offers... more ... Sparta. Drawing on a wide range of literary and archaeological evidence, JamesRedfield offers a fascinating account of this poorly understood Greek city-state, and in particular the distinctive role of women and mar-riage therein. ...

Classical Philology, 1985

TH rERODOTUS, as we know, is both Father of History and Father of Anthropology. Sir John Myres wr... more TH rERODOTUS, as we know, is both Father of History and Father of Anthropology. Sir John Myres wrote: "so far as Herodotus presents us . . . with a science of anthropology ... he is little, if at all, behind the best thought of our own day."' Even as of 1908 this seems ...

Classical Philology, 1979

Dialectical Anthropology, 1986

My father, Robert Redfield, told me that poets know everything. He had been a poet before he beca... more My father, Robert Redfield, told me that poets know everything. He had been a poet before he became an ethnographer, and turned to science with, I suspect, a certain regret, resigned that he himself was not among the inspired. His anthropological writing is val-uable partly ...

Plato and Xenophon, insofar as they were considered historically, were in my youth mostly treated... more Plato and Xenophon, insofar as they were considered historically, were in my youth mostly treated as alternative and competing sources for the historical Socrates.

At the funeral banquet held for Plato, Plato's nephew and successor Speusippus gave the eulogy; t... more At the funeral banquet held for Plato, Plato's nephew and successor Speusippus gave the eulogy; the text was among his published works (D.L. 4.4). In it he told a story that circulated concerning Plato's birth: when Plato's mother Perictione was nubile her husband Ariston attempted to force his attentions on her, but failed. He abandoned violence and saw a vision of Apollo; therefore he kept her pure from intercourse for the time of her pregnancy (D.L. 3.2). The implication is that, like King Demaratus, Plato had a divine parent; Apollo was his true father. Plato, in other words, was a hero.

... Sparta. Drawing on a wide range of literary and archaeological evidence, JamesRedfield offers... more ... Sparta. Drawing on a wide range of literary and archaeological evidence, JamesRedfield offers a fascinating account of this poorly understood Greek city-state, and in particular the distinctive role of women and mar-riage therein. ...

Classical Philology, 1985

TH rERODOTUS, as we know, is both Father of History and Father of Anthropology. Sir John Myres wr... more TH rERODOTUS, as we know, is both Father of History and Father of Anthropology. Sir John Myres wrote: "so far as Herodotus presents us . . . with a science of anthropology ... he is little, if at all, behind the best thought of our own day."' Even as of 1908 this seems ...

Classical Philology, 1979

Dialectical Anthropology, 1986

My father, Robert Redfield, told me that poets know everything. He had been a poet before he beca... more My father, Robert Redfield, told me that poets know everything. He had been a poet before he became an ethnographer, and turned to science with, I suspect, a certain regret, resigned that he himself was not among the inspired. His anthropological writing is val-uable partly ...

Plato and Xenophon, insofar as they were considered historically, were in my youth mostly treated... more Plato and Xenophon, insofar as they were considered historically, were in my youth mostly treated as alternative and competing sources for the historical Socrates.

At the funeral banquet held for Plato, Plato's nephew and successor Speusippus gave the eulogy; t... more At the funeral banquet held for Plato, Plato's nephew and successor Speusippus gave the eulogy; the text was among his published works (D.L. 4.4). In it he told a story that circulated concerning Plato's birth: when Plato's mother Perictione was nubile her husband Ariston attempted to force his attentions on her, but failed. He abandoned violence and saw a vision of Apollo; therefore he kept her pure from intercourse for the time of her pregnancy (D.L. 3.2). The implication is that, like King Demaratus, Plato had a divine parent; Apollo was his true father. Plato, in other words, was a hero.

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