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3 0 0 THE GREEKS AND GREEK CIVILIZATION oC —w , I. •* "/*>** " ^ >««■»2»»«. rt/» *• <^*i <»V** f ^ *‘< ^**»1 • «/ *^ **-+ ------ 77 y>*Ay€+ ^ *^ *-— r Y^ZZSz efrr'Js .X't V, •±J*+^*S tfti/p* +Z\y4ib+4£^. É «J . — * €sS&~s* -a_ Z-J/i-*-^ , ^J-~ / - £j^-y4*yt#~ *^/ «■*• *^£y£-f C^fgÄT-___ Burckhardt's lecture notes: the start of his discussion of the polis (c.f. Griechische Kulturgeschichte (Darmstadt 1962) vol. I, p. 53, p. 37 in this translation). THE GREEKS AND GREEK CIVILIZATION JACOB BURCKHARDT Translated by SHEILA STERN Edited, with an Introduction by OSWYN MURRAY St. Martin’s Griffin New York Edited, with an Introduction by Oswyn the GREEKS AND GREEK civilization. Murray copyright © 1998.Translation by Sheila Stern copyright © 1998. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010. Frontispiece © Staatsarchiv Basel-Stadt. Reproduced with permission. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Burckhardt, Jacob. [Griechische Kulturgeschichte. English. Selections.] The Greeks and Greek civilization / Jacob Burckhardt; translated by Sheila Stern ; edited with an introduction by Oswyn Murray, p. cm. ISBN 0-312-19276-2 (hc) ISBN 0-312-24447-9 (pbk) 1. Greece—Civilization—To 146 B.C. 2. Burckhardt, Jacob, 1818—1897—Contributions in Greek history. I. Murray, Oswyn. II. Title. DF77.B94213 1998 938—dc21 98-30107 CIP First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers First St. Martin’s Griffin Edition: October 1999 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 IN MEMORY OF MOSES FINLEY (1912-1986) J. P. STERN (1920-1991) CONTENTS PREFACE BY OSWYN MURRAY ix INTRODUCTION BY OSWYN MURRAY xi THE GREEKS I Introduction 3 II The Greeks and their Mythology 13 III The Polis 37 IV General Characteristics of Greek Life 63 GREEK CIVILIZATION I Introductory Remarks 127 II The Heroic Age 135 III The Agonal Age 160 IV The Fifth Century 214 V The Fourth Century to the Age of Alexander 282 VI The Hellenistic Age 346 Postscript: The Intellectual Necessity of Studying Ancient History 364 notes 367 CORRESPONDING PAGE NUMBERS OF THE GERMAN EDITION AND THE ENGLISHT RANSLATION 429 BIBLIOGRAPHY 431 index 433 PREFACE In 1965 I published my first review; it was of an ignorant and badly chosen translation of selections from Jacob Burckhardt’s lectures on Greek culture. Moses Finley wrote to congratulate me, and to reveal that he and Sheila Stem were preparing a quite different selection for publication. It was indeed Burckhardt who inaugurated for me twenty years of friendship with one of the three great historians of that age who dominated studies of the ancient world in the English language - Finley the American, Syme the New Zealander and Momigliano the Italian. When Moses died in 1986, the half-completed translation had lan- guished for many years. No trace of his own work on the project was found in his papers. But in 1989 I was delighted to receive a letter from Sheila Stern revealing that she had recently discovered her manuscript of the early sections, which she was retyping and wished to continue: would I be interested in reviving the long-delayed project, and taking over the task of editing the volume? Since I had just been rereading Burckhardt in the course of using his conception of the development of ‘Greek man’, I replied that nothing would give me greater pleasure than to help edit a version of that masterpiece. We revised and improved the selection that Moses had made, and began work on the translation in earnest. So it is that finally, on the centenary of Burckhardt’s death, and also a hundred years after the first publication of his lectures (1898-1902), we present Burckhardt’s ideas on Greek cultural history to readers of English. In this translation we have collaborated closely, but I am primarily responsible for the selection of material and for the introduction, while Sheila Stem is primarily responsible for the translation. We would like to thank our publishers Stuart Proffitt and Toby Mundy for the enthusiasm with which they have welcomed and encouraged the project. We would also like to thank David McLintock for helping to revise IX

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