Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture: Volume I. Archaic Greece: The Mind of Athens

Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture: Volume I. Archaic Greece: The Mind of Athens
Author: Werner Jaeger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 544
Release: 1986-10-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780195004250

Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, and philosophy is the basis for Jaeger's evaluation of Hellenic culture. Volume I describes the foundation, growth, and crisis of Greek culture during the archaic and classical epochs, ending with the collapse of the Athenian empire. The second and third volumes of the work deal with the intellectual history of ancient Greece in the Age of Plato, the 4th century B.C.--the age in which Greece lost everything that is valued in this world--state, power, liberty--but still clung to the concept of paideia. As its last great poet, Menander summarized the primary role of this ideal in Greek culture when he said: "The possession which no one can take away from man is paideia."

Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture

Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture
Author: Werner Jaeger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 1986-04-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0195364910

Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, and philosophy is the basis for Jaeger's evaluation of Hellenic culture. Volume I describes the foundation, growth, and crisis of Greek culture during the archaic and classical epochs, ending with the collapse of the Athenian empire. The second and third volumes of the work deal with the intellectual history of ancient Greece in the Age of Plato, the 4th century B.C.--the age in which Greece lost everything that is valued in this world--state, power, liberty--but still clung to the concept of paideia. As its last great poet, Menander summarized the primary role of this ideal in Greek culture when he said: "The possession which no one can take away from man is paideia."

Early Christianity and Greek Paideia

Early Christianity and Greek Paideia
Author: Werner Jaeger
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1985
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780674220522

This small book, the last work of a world-renowned scholar, has established itself as a classic. It provides a superb overview of the vast historical process by which Christianity was Hellenized and Hellenic civilization became Christianized. Werner Jaeger shows that without the large postclassical expansion of Greek culture the rise of a Christian world religion would have been impossible. He explains why the Hellenization of Christianity was necessary in apostolic and postapostalic times; points out similarities between Greek philosophy and Christian belief; discuss such key figures as Clement, Origen, and Gregory of Nyssa; and touches on the controversies that led to the ultimate complex synthesis of Greek and Christian thought.

Patrocleia

Patrocleia
Author: Homer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1963
Genre: Patroclus (Greek mythology)
ISBN:

A lost little kitten is taken in by a family of mice and brought up to think it is a mouse till one day two children decide to befriend it.

Paideia

Paideia
Author: Werner Jaeger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 510
Release: 1945
Genre: Education, Greek
ISBN:

Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece

Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece
Author: Iain Ross
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1107020328

Oscar Wilde's imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works.

Passion of the Western Mind

Passion of the Western Mind
Author: Richard Tarnas
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2011-10-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0307804526

"[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume.

Plato: Alcibiades

Plato: Alcibiades
Author: Plato
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2001-09-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521634144

The first modern edition of Plato's Alcibiades, aimed at both students and scholars.

Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece

Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece
Author: Renaud Gagné
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 567
Release: 2013-11-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 110743534X

Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless will pay for the deeds later: either the man's children, or his descendants thereafter', said Solon in the sixth century BC, a statement echoed throughout the rest of antiquity. This notion lies at the heart of ancient Greek thinking on theodicy, inheritance and privilege, the meaning of suffering, the links between wealth and morality, individual responsibility, the bonds that unite generations and the grand movements of history. From Homer to Proclus, it played a major role in some of the most critical and pressing reflections of Greek culture on divinity, society and knowledge. The burning modern preoccupation with collective responsibility across generations has a long, deep antecedent in classical Greek literature and its reception. This book retraces the trajectories of Greek ancestral fault and the varieties of its expression through the many genres and centuries where it is found.