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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Edition: Second Edition // Descr: xxix, 510 p. 20.5 cm. // Series: Call No. { 948 J17 vol. I copy #3 } Volume I : Archaic Greece-The Mind of Athens Translated from the Second German Edition by Gilbert Highet Contains Index. // // no reviews | add a review
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 centuryB.C.--the age in which Greece lost. No library descriptions found. |
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