| Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture: Volume III: The Conflict of Cultural Ideals in the Age of Plato Revised Edition Contributor(s): Jaeger, Werner (Author), Highet, Gilbert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195040481 ISBN-13: 9780195040487 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $97.02 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1986 Annotation: The final volume of Werner Jaeger's three-volume Paideia begins at the same point as its predecessor--the fall of the Periclean empire--but pursues a different line of intellectual development. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical |
| Dewey: 938 |
| Series: Paideia, the Ideals of Greek Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.42" W x 8.54" (1.09 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |