ENGLISH

Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, Volume III: The Conflict of Cultural Ideals in the Age of Plato

By Werner Jaeger

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1986
ISBN
0195040481, 9780195040487, 0195005937, 9780195005936
Open Library ID
OL7385787M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (22747178 bytes)
Pages
384\383
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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."

Similar books