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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... merely as a collection of fables was to the Greeks actually true; or at 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 ...
... merely as a collection of fables was to the Greeks actually true; or at 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 ...
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... merely putting into form what they and every one believed to be essentially true. But such a belief implies a fundamental distinction between the conception, or rather, perhaps, the feeling of the Greeks about the world, and our own ...
... merely putting into form what they and every one believed to be essentially true. But such a belief implies a fundamental distinction between the conception, or rather, perhaps, the feeling of the Greeks about the world, and our own ...
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... 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 so, comfortable, by the fact that it is conducted under the ...
... 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 so, comfortable, by the fact that it is conducted under the ...
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... merely presenting them thus to himself in 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 ...
... merely presenting them thus to himself in 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 ...
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... merely a beautiful way of expressing facts; a translation, not an interpretation, of life. What we mean by religion is something very different to that, something which concerns the relation of the soul to God; the sense of sin, for ...
... merely a beautiful way of expressing facts; a translation, not an interpretation, of life. What we mean by religion is something very different to that, something which concerns the relation of the soul to God; the sense of sin, for ...
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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