PAIDEIA: The Ideals of Greek Culture - 3 Volumes Translated from the Second German Edition by Gilbert Highet

Clean hardcover copy in good condition for its age. Includes the orignal dustjacket which has fading and rough edges but is intact. Volumes two and three are missing the dustjacket. Saubere Hardcover Kopie in gutem Zustand f�r sein Alter. Enth� die urspr�ngliche Schutzumschlag, die Verblassen und rauen Kanten hat, ist aber intakt. Bei den B�en zwei und drei fehlt der Schutzumschlag. CONTENTS - Volume 1: Archaic Greece - The Mind of Athens Prefaces - Translator�s note - Introduction: The Place of the Greeks in the History of Education - BOOK ONE - Archaic Greece - 1 Nobility and Arete - 2 The Culture and Education of the Homeric Nobility - 3 Homer the Educator - 4 Hesiod: the Peasant�s Life - 5 State-Education in Sparta: A new cultural pattern: the polis and its types - Historical tradition and the philosophical idealisation of Sparta Tyrtaeus� call to arete - 6 The City-State and Its Ideal of Justice - 7 Ionian and Aeolian Poetry: the Individual Shapes his own Personality - 8 Solon: Creator of Athenian Political Culture - 9 Philosophical Speculation: the Discovery of the World-Order - 10 The Aristocracy: Conflict and Transformation: The transmission of Theognis� poems - The codification of the aristocratic educational tradition - Pindar, the voice of aristocracy - 11 The Cultural Policy of the Tyrants - BOOK TWO - The Mind of Athens - 1 The Drama of Aeschylus - 2 Sophocles and the Tragic Character - 3 The Sophists: Their Position in the history of cutlure - The Origins of educational theory and the ideal of culture - Education adn the political crisis - 4 Euripides and his Age - 5 The Comic Poetry of Aristophanes - 6 Thucydides: Political Philosopher Contents: Volume 2 - BOOK THREE - In Search of the Divine Centre - 1 The Fourth Century - 2 The Memory of Socrates - The Socratic Problem - Socrates the Teacher - 3 Plato and Posterity - 4 Plato�s Smaller Socratic Dialogues : The Problem of Arete - 5 Protagoras : Sophistic or Socratic Paideia? - 6 Gorgias : The Educator as Statesman - 7 Meno: The New Knowledge - 8 The Symposium: Eros - 9 The Republic: Introduction - The Problem of Justice Leads to the Ideal State - Reform of the Old Paideia - Criticism of �Musical� Education - Criticism of Athletics and Medicine - The Position of Education in the Perfectly - Just State - The Education of Women and Children - Breeding and Education of the Elite - Military Training and Military Law - The Republic: True Home of the Philosopher - II: The Paideia of the Rulers: The Divine Model - The Cave�An Image of Paideia - Paideia as Conversion - Mathematics as Propaideia - Education in Dialectic - The Philosopher�s Curriculum - Types of Constitution and Types of Character - The State within Us - III: The Educational Value of Poetry - 2 Paideia and Eschatology - 3 The Memory of Socrates - 4 Plato�s Smaller Socratic Dialogues - 5 Protagoras - 6 Gorgias - 7 Meno - 8 The Symposium - 9 The Republic - Contents: BOOK FOUR - The Conflict of Cultural Ideals in the Age of Plato - Greek Medicine as Paideia - The Rhetoric of Isocrates and Its Cultural Ideal 46 Political Culture and the Panhellenic Ideal - The Prince�s Education - Freedom and Authority: The Conflict within the Radical Democracy - Isocrates Defends his Paideia - Xenophon: The Ideal Squire and Soldier - Plato�s Phaedrus: Philosophy and Rhetoric - Plato and Dionysius: The Tragedy of Paideia - Plato�s Laws: The Lawgiver as Educator - True Education and the Spirit of the Laws - The Causes of the State�s Decline - The Divine Standard in Founding the State: The Prefaces to the Laws - Laws Concerning the Education of the People - The Knowledge of God and the Education of the Rulers - Demosthenes: The Death-Struggle and Transfiguration of the City-State - Notes - 1 Greek Medicine as Paideia - 2 The Rhetoric of Isocrates and Its Cultural Ideal - 3 Political Culture and the Panhellenic Ideal - 4 The Prince�s Education - Notes - 5 Freedom and Authority - 6 Isocrates Defends his Paideia - 7 Xenophon - 8 Plato�s Phaedrus - 9 Plato and Dionysius - 10 Plato�s Laws - 11 Demosthenes - Index