PAIDEIA: THE IDEALS OF GREEK CULTURE Volume 1: Archaic Greece, the Mind of Athens Very Good-

Oxford University Press, 1976

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Year of publication

1976

Author

Jaeger, Werner

Publishers

Oxford University Press

Keyword

Greek History Social & Cultural

Binding description

Softcover ISBN 0195004256

Description

Spine creased. Wraps have some edgewear and creasing. Pages tanned. Scholar's name to ffep (Bonnie Maclachlan [nйe Ward]). Very light pencilling; 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."; Volume 1 Only. a Galaxy Book; Vol. 1; 510 pages