Paideia

Sinopse Werner Jaegers classic threevolume 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 Jaegers 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 BCthe age in which Greece lost everything that is valued in this worldstate power libertybut 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 Peso 065 kg ISBN10 0195040473 ISBN13 9780195040470 Número de páginas 442 Ano de edição 1986 Idioma Inglês Tipo de produto Livro Ciências Humanas e Sociais Filosofia Tipo de produto Novo e Impresso