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PAIDEIA: THE IDEALS OF GREEK CULTURE Volume III: the Conflict of Cultural Ideals in the Age of Plato
by Jaeger, Werner; Highet, Gilbert
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0195040481
- ISBN 13
- 9780195040487
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Oxford University Press. Good+. 1986. Softcover. 0195040481 . Remainder mark to top and bottom of textblock. Remains of old price sticker to front wrap. Else VG. ; Vol. 3; 384 pages; 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." .
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- Bookseller
- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37204
- Title
- PAIDEIA: THE IDEALS OF GREEK CULTURE Volume III: the Conflict of Cultural Ideals in the Age of Plato
- Author
- Jaeger, Werner; Highet, Gilbert
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0195040481
- ISBN 13
- 9780195040487
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- 0195040481, Education, Social & Cultural, Greek History
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