Gilbert Highet Libri
Gilbert Highet fu un critico e studioso classico, rinomato per il suo insegnamento delle discipline umanistiche nel Regno Unito e negli Stati Uniti. Il suo lavoro esplorò a fondo la cultura classica e la sua rilevanza per il mondo moderno. Highet possedeva un'abilità unica nel trasmettere argomenti complessi con chiarezza ed entusiasmo coinvolgente a un vasto pubblico.
ManS Unconquerable Mind
- 148pagine
- 6 ore di lettura
Explores the power, capabilities, and limitations of the human mind from ancient times.
Paideia - 1: The Ideals of Greek Culture
The Mind of Athens (Archaic Greece)
- 544pagine
- 20 ore di lettura
The project of Greek culture in its heroic period was the creation of the perfect state-a goal that seemed within reach in the Athens of the fifth century B.C. But with the fall of Athens that prospect evaporated, and the result, which Werner Jaeger describes in this second volume of his magisterial three-volume study of Hellenism, was the spiritualizing of Greek culture-'the search for the divine centre.' Jaeger traces the growth of this new power in human culture from its early beginnings in the teachings of Socrates, to its natural climax in Plato's Republic.