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Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece

Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece follows the history of a core idea of Greek culture over almost three thousand years. It covers an immense and varied body of sources, which had never previously been fully collected, let alone analysed together. The first section of the book is concerned with the eventful and particularly complex reception of the Greek material, from Plutarch to the late twentieth century, while the second section follows the trajectories of the idea from Homer to Plato. The vast range of texts, genres, contexts, and periods treated by the book demanded a considerable amount of methodological innovation.