Author: XenophonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dialogues, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates
Author: XenophonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dialogues, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Xenophon’s Virtues
Author: Gabriel DanzigPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111313573
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
While Plato’s and Aristotle’s theories of virtue have received extensive scholarly attention, less work has been done on Xenophon’s portraits of virtue and on his attitude towards the theoretical issues connected with it. And yet, Xenophon offers one of the best sources we have for thinking about virtue in ancient Greece, because he combines the analytical interests of a Socratic with a historian’s interest in real life. Until recently, scholars of Xenophon tended to focus either on the historiographical writings or on the philosophical writings (chiefly Memorabilia, with some attention to the other Socratic writings and Hiero). Cyropaedia was treated as a separate entity, and Xenophon’s short and more technical treatises were generally studied only by those with particular interest in their specialized topics (such as horsemanship, hunting, and Athenian finances). But recent work by Vincent Azoulay and by Vivienne Gray have shown the essential unity of his writings. This volume continues this pan-Xenophontic trend by studying the virtues across Xenophon’s oeuvre and connecting them with a wide range of Greek literature, from Homer and the tragedians to Herodotus and Thucydides, the orators, Plato, and Aristotle.
Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates
Author: R. RobbinsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368843451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
The Works of Xenophon: pt. 1. The Memorabilia and Apology, the Economist, the Symposium, and Hiero
Author: XenophonThe Works of Xenophon: pt. 1. The Memorabilia and Apology, the Economist, the Symposium, and Hiero. 1897
Author: XenophonThe Works of Xenophon: pt. 1. The Memorabilia and Apology, the Economist, the Symposium, and Hiero. 1897. pt. 2. Three essays: On the duties of a cavalry general, On horsemanship, On hunting. 1897
Author: XenophonΞ. Ἀπομνημονευματα. Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates, with notes and an introduction. By R. D. C. Robbins. Gr
Author: XenophonA catalogue of the law school of the university at Cambridge
Author: Harvard university law schPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Crowned Masterpieces of Eloquence that Have Advanced Civilization
Author: David Josiah BrewerPublisher:
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The Penultimate Curiosity
Author: Roger WagnerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191065145
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all human religions. It has, in many cultures, shaped and motivated a more down to earth scientific interest in the physical world, which could therefore be described as penultimate curiosity. These two manifestations of curiosity have a history of connection that goes back deep into the human past. Tracing that history all the way from cave painting to quantum physics, this book (a collaboration between a painter and a physical scientist that uses illustrations throughout the narrative) sets out to explain the nature of the long entanglement between religion and science: the ultimate and the penultimate curiosity.