Greek Realities Life and Thought in Ancient Greece

Name: Greek Realities Life and Thought in Ancient Greece
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ISBN: 9780814315972

ISBN-10: 0814315976

ISBN-13: 9780814315972

Edition: 1978

Authors: Finley Hooper

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"The study of the Greeks can never be a closed account. The wide variety of critical and descriptive works written about them . . . . bears witness to man's continuing preoccupation with himself. Other ages might talk of God or machines; the Greeks, from Homer to Diogenes, were fascinated with man. Plato's emphasis on the spiritual world and Diogenes' unheroic retreat may seem to be departures from the Greek way. But that would be true if there were a single Greek way. Obviously, there was not. It is the variety of ideas about man, who he is and who he hopes to be, which is the real Greek legacy . . . . This book [begins] with the rich tombs of Mycenaean kings who tried desperately to…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 1978
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication date: 8/31/1978
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 469
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English