Author: Richard Winn LivingstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Mission of Greece
Author: Richard Winn LivingstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Mission of Greece; Some Greek Views of Life in the Roman World;
Author: Sir Richard Winn LivingstonePublisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781013399107
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Mission of Greece: Some Greek Views of Life in the Roman World
Author: Richard Winn LivingstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Mission of Greece. Some Greek Views of Life in the Roman World. Edited by R.W. Livingstone
Author: Richard Winn LivingstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Life and Thought in the Greek and Roman World
Author: M. CaryPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040036295
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Life and Thought in the Greek and Roman World (1961) aims to provide a brief but comprehensive outline sketch of Greek and Roman civilization. It describes the geographic, political and social background of that civilization, and sets forth its main achievements in the fields of language and literature, scholarship and education, science and philosophy, art and religion. The authors have endeavoured throughout to present Greek and Roman civilization as an organic whole.
The Greek View of Life
Author: Goldsworthy Lowes DickinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Life and Thought in the Greek and Roman World
Author: Max CaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Greek View of Life
Author: G. Lowes DickinsonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3863825616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Reprint of the original from 1947, which is a reprint of the original from 1896.
First Principles
Author: Thomas E. RicksPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062997475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller Editors' Choice —New York Times Book Review "Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country." —James Mattis, General, U.S. Marines (ret.) & 26th Secretary of Defense The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author offers a revelatory new book about the founding fathers, examining their educations and, in particular, their devotion to the ancient Greek and Roman classics—and how that influence would shape their ideals and the new American nation. On the morning after the 2016 presidential election, Thomas Ricks awoke with a few questions on his mind: What kind of nation did we now have? Is it what was designed or intended by the nation’s founders? Trying to get as close to the source as he could, Ricks decided to go back and read the philosophy and literature that shaped the founders’ thinking, and the letters they wrote to each other debating these crucial works—among them the Iliad, Plutarch’s Lives, and the works of Xenophon, Epicurus, Aristotle, Cato, and Cicero. For though much attention has been paid the influence of English political philosophers, like John Locke, closer to their own era, the founders were far more immersed in the literature of the ancient world. The first four American presidents came to their classical knowledge differently. Washington absorbed it mainly from the elite culture of his day; Adams from the laws and rhetoric of Rome; Jefferson immersed himself in classical philosophy, especially Epicureanism; and Madison, both a groundbreaking researcher and a deft politician, spent years studying the ancient world like a political scientist. Each of their experiences, and distinctive learning, played an essential role in the formation of the United States. In examining how and what they studied, looking at them in the unusual light of the classical world, Ricks is able to draw arresting and fresh portraits of men we thought we knew. First Principles follows these four members of the Revolutionary generation from their youths to their adult lives, as they grappled with questions of independence, and forming and keeping a new nation. In doing so, Ricks interprets not only the effect of the ancient world on each man, and how that shaped our constitution and government, but offers startling new insights into these legendary leaders.
Author: Max Cary