Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture: Volume I. Archaic Greece: The Mind of Athens
Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture: Volume I. Archaic Greece: The Mind of Athens

Author: Werner Jaeger

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1986-10-23

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 9780195004250

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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."

Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture
Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture

Author: Werner Jaeger

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1986-04-24

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 0195364910

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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."

Early Christianity and Greek Paideia
Early Christianity and Greek Paideia

Author: Werner Jaeger

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9780674220522

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This small book, the last work of a world-renowned scholar, has established itself as a classic. It provides a superb overview of the vast historical process by which Christianity was Hellenized and Hellenic civilization became Christianized. Werner Jaeger shows that without the large postclassical expansion of Greek culture the rise of a Christian world religion would have been impossible. He explains why the Hellenization of Christianity was necessary in apostolic and postapostalic times; points out similarities between Greek philosophy and Christian belief; discuss such key figures as Clement, Origen, and Gregory of Nyssa; and touches on the controversies that led to the ultimate complex synthesis of Greek and Christian thought.

Bildung and Paideia
Bildung and Paideia

Author: Marie-Élise Zovko

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-06-23

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 100033578X

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Bildung and Paideia examines traditional humanistic ideals in light of philosophical reflection on the need for education of the whole human being. The study of what it is to be human is traditionally the task of the humanities. In recent years, however, the humanities have been increasingly subordinated to technological, economic, and utilitarian aims. Do the humanities still have a fundamentally distinct task to fulfil in education? Today’s reduction of educational outcomes to measurable competencies and economically exploitable skills is opposed to traditional ideals like that of Greek paideia and the German Romantic concept of Bildung, which emphasized formation of the whole human being. The present volume takes as its point of departure the conviction that the study of ‘the human experience'—whether through philosophy, literature, religion, art, music, history, or languages—has something specific to offer in the realm of education today. The individual contributions examine the specific role of philosophy and the humanities in education from ancient times to the present and explore possibilities for conceiving philosophical models of education. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Patrocleia
Patrocleia

Author: Homer

Publisher:

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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A lost little kitten is taken in by a family of mice and brought up to think it is a mouse till one day two children decide to befriend it.

Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece
Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece

Author: Iain Ross

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1107020328

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Oscar Wilde's imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works.

Placing Modern Greece
Placing Modern Greece

Author: Constanze Guthenke

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2008-02-07

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0191528307

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Placing Modern Greece is about literary representations of Greece in the period of Romanticism, encompassing the time in the 1820s when it became a territorial and political reality as a nation state. Constanze Guthenke claims that the imagining of and attitude towards Greece was shaped by a fascination with the material, and by the highly conceptualized tension between the ideal on the one hand, and the material on the other. Her study focuses on nature and landscape imagery as vehicles of representation, on their specific inner workings, and on their dynamic, which conditions how and whether Greece as a modern entity in the making can be represented at all. Offering readings from German and contemporaneous Greek authors, Guthenke supplies a commentary on the translation and crossings of representational models and their limits.

Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture
Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture

Author: Steven D. Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-05-16

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1108480233

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An exciting analysis of gender and sexual desire in sixth century Greek epigram that bridges classical and early Byzantine culture.

Norms and Nobility
Norms and Nobility

Author: David V. Hicks

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2024-08-06

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1538195364

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A reissue of a classic text, Norms and Nobility is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform. David Hicks contends that the classical tradition promotes a spirit of inquiry that is concerned with the development of style and conscience, which makes it an effective and meaningful form of education. Dismissing notions that classical education is elitist and irrelevant, Hicks argues that the classical tradition can meet the needs of our increasingly technological society as well as serve as a feasible model for mass education.