The Greek View of Life
The Greek View of Life

Author: G. Lowes Dickinson

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-04-26

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 336835051X

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The Greek Way of Life
The Greek Way of Life

Author: Robert Garland

Publisher: Bristol Classical Press

Published: 2015-03-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780715623770

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The Greek Way of Life is a survey of the major life experiences which constituted the social reality of classical Greece, broken down into the general topics of conception and pregnancy, birth, childhood, coming of age, early adulthood, and elders and the elderly. What emerges is a conception of the human being as a social animal par excellence whose nature was largely realised in the attainment of paradigmatic social roles: military service for men and childbearing for women. Among the subtopics are Greek medical ideas, the roles of women and children, marriage, care of the elderly, and the role of religious ideas. An engaging narrative and a useful sourcebook, this will appeal to both general readers and scholars.

The Greek View of Life
The Greek View of Life

Author: G. Lowes Dickinson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-22

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1317340248

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First published in 1896 (this twenty-third edition in 1957), this book provides a general introduction to Greek literature and thought. Among the subjects dealt with are the Greek view of religion, the state and its relation to the citizen, law, artisans and slaves, manual labour, trade and art.

The Early Greek Concept of the Soul
The Early Greek Concept of the Soul

Author: Jan N. Bremmer

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 0691219354

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Jan Bremmer presents a provocative picture of the historical development of beliefs regarding the soul in ancient Greece. He argues that before Homer the Greeks distinguished between two types of soul, both identified with the individual: the free soul, which possessed no psychological attributes and was active only outside the body, as in dreams, swoons, and the afterlife; and the body soul, which endowed a person with life and consciousness. Gradually this concept of two kinds of souls was replaced by the idea of a single soul. In exploring Greek ideas of human souls as well as those of plants and animals, Bremmer illuminates an important stage in the genesis of the Greek mind.

The Greek Way
The Greek Way

Author: Edith Hamilton

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-10-25

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0393081869

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Edith Hamilton buoyantly captures the spirit and achievements of the Greek civilization for our modern world. In The Greek Way, Edith Hamilton captures with "Homeric power and simplicity" (New York Times) the spirit of the golden age of Greece in the fifth century BC, the time of its highest achievements. She explores the Greek aesthetics of sculpture and writing and the lack of ornamentation in both. She examines the works of Homer, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides, among others; the philosophy of Socrates and Plato’s role in preserving it; the historical accounts by Herodotus and Thucydides on the Greek wars with Persia and Sparta and by Xenophon on civilized living.

The Greek View of Life
The Greek View of Life

Author: Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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The four sections of the book deal with the Greek attitude towards religion, the state, the individual, and toward art.