Status
Disponible
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Publication
Fondo de Cultura Económica (2008), 1151 pages
Description
Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, and philosophy is the basis for Jaeger's evaluation of Hellenic culture.Volume I describes the foundation, growth, and crisis of Greek culture during the archaic and classical epochs, ending with the collapse of the Athenian empire. The second and third volumes of the work deal with the intellectual history of ancient Greece in the Age of Plato, the 4th centuryB.C.--the age in which Greece lost.
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Original publication date
1933-1947
Physical description
1151 p.; 8.25 inches
ISBN
9681601068 / 9789681601065