The Greek View of LifeRoutledge, 22. mar. 2016 - 280 sider 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. |
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... least that to nine Greeks out of ten it would never occur that it might be false, might be, as we say, mere stories. So that though no doubt the histories of the gods were in part the The Greek View of Religion 1 Introductory.
... least that to nine Greeks out of ten it would never occur that it might be false, might be, as we say, mere stories. So that though no doubt the histories of the gods were in part the The Greek View of Religion 1 Introductory.
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... least they had a nature akin to his; if they were angry, they might be propitiated; if they were jealous, they might be appeased; the enmity of one might be compensated by the friendship of another; dealings with them, after all, were ...
... least they had a nature akin to his; if they were angry, they might be propitiated; if they were jealous, they might be appeased; the enmity of one might be compensated by the friendship of another; dealings with them, after all, were ...
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... least, because the powers with which Odysseus has to do are not mere forces of nature, blind and indifferent, but spiritual beings who take an interest, for or against, in his fate. The whole story becomes familiar, and, if one may say ...
... least, because the powers with which Odysseus has to do are not mere forces of nature, blind and indifferent, but spiritual beings who take an interest, for or against, in his fate. The whole story becomes familiar, and, if one may say ...
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... a guise that was immediately understood, set aside, if he could not answer, the haunting question of their origin and end. Here then is at least a partial reply to our Greek Religion an Interpretation of the Human Passions.
... a guise that was immediately understood, set aside, if he could not answer, the haunting question of their origin and end. Here then is at least a partial reply to our Greek Religion an Interpretation of the Human Passions.
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G. Lowes Dickinson. Here then is at least a partial reply to our question as to the effect of a belief in the gods on the feeling of the Greek. To repeat the phrase once more: it made him feel at home in the world. The mysterious powers ...
G. Lowes Dickinson. Here then is at least a partial reply to our question as to the effect of a belief in the gods on the feeling of the Greek. To repeat the phrase once more: it made him feel at home in the world. The mysterious powers ...
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Athens | |
Sceptical Criticism of the Basis of the State | |
Summary | |
The Greek View of the Individual 1 The Greek View of Manual Labour and Trade | |
Appreciation of External Goods | |
Appreciation of Physical Qualities | |
Greek Athletics | |
Greek EthicsIdentification of the Aesthetic and Ethical Points of View | |
The Greek View of Death and a Future Life | |
Critical and Sceptical Opinion in Greece | |
Ethical Criticism | |
Transition to Monotheism | |
Metaphysical Criticism | |
Metaphysical ReconstructionPlato | |
Summary | |
The Greek View of the State 1 The Greek State a City | |
The Relation of the State to the Citizen | |
The Greek View of | |
Artisans and Slaves | |
The Greek State Primarily Military not Industrial | |
Forms of Government in the Greek State | |
Faction and Anarchy | |
Property and the Communistic Ideal | |
Sparta | |
The Greek View of Pleasure | |
IllustrationsIschomachus Socrates | |
The Greek View of Woman | |
Protests against the Common View of Woman | |
Friendship | |
Summary | |
The Greek View of Art 1 Greek Art an Expression of National Life | |
Identification of the Aesthetic and Ethical Points of View | |
Sculpture and Painting | |
Music and the Dance | |
Poetry | |
Tragedy | |
Comedy | |
Summary | |
Conclusion | |
Index | |
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Aeschylus aesthetic Agamemnon Alcibiades ancient Greece Apollo Aristophanes Aristotle artist Athenian Athens beauty Bleps body character chorus citizen Clytemnestra conceived connexion consciousness criticism dance Davies and Vaughan Demosthenes Dionysus distinction divine drama E. M. Forster earth ethical Euripides example excellence external fact fair gods grace Greek civilization Greek conception Greek ideal Greek religion Greek tragedy Greek view hand happy harmony heaven heroes Homer honour human idea Iliad illustration immortal individual intellect least Lycurgus means merely mind modern moral nature never Odysseus oligarchy passage passion Patroclus perfect person Pheidias philosopher physical Pindar Plato pleasure Plutarch poetry poets point of view political Prax realization regarded relation religious represent sense slave Socrates soul Sparta spirit thee theme things thou Thucydides Translated by Davies Translated by Jowett true virtue whole woman women word Zeus