This landmark book explores the ways in which the Greco-Roman tradition has shaped modern European and American literature.

The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature

Business & Money

Highet, Gilbert

International

Oxford University Press

Paideia: The Ideals of Greek CultureVolume I: Archaic Greece: The Mind of Athens

History

Jaeger, Werner

Ancient Civilizations

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: Volume I: Archaic Greece: The Mind of Athens

Traces the literary influence of Greek and Roman culture from the Dark Ages to the twentieth century

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Commentaries on the motivations, methods, and styles of authors and their books

People, Places, and Books

Medical Books

Basic Sciences

39 introductory essays on poetic technique, the lives of individual poets, mood and individual poems, and the values of poetry

The Powers of Poetry

Oxford Univ. Pr.

Paideia: The Ideals of Greek CultureVolume II: In Search of the Divine Center

Paideia: The Ideals of Greek CultureVolume III: The Conflict of Cultural Ideals in the Age of Plato

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

First edition. A collection of essays based on the author's extensive reading. Chapters on The Unwritten Book, Father and Son on Gosse , Language, How to Torture the Author, etc. xii, 383 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

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Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture: Volume II: In Search of the Divine Center

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