Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture Volume I: Archaic Greece: The Mind of Athens

by Jaeger, Werner; Highet, Gilbert

• ISBN13: 9780195004250
• ISBN10: 0195004256
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-04-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 everything that is valued in this world--state, power, liberty--but still clung to the concept of paideia. As its last great poet, Menander summarized the primary role of this ideal in Greek culture when he said: "The possession which no one can take away from manis paideia."

Table of Contents

Prefaces	ix
Translator's note	xii
Introduction: The Place of the Greeks in the History of Education	xiii
BOOK ONE Archaic Greece
Nobility and Arete	3	(12)
The Culture and Education of the Homeric Nobility	15	(20)
Homer the Educator	35	(22)
Hesiod: the Peasant's Life	57	(20)
State-Education in Sparta:	77	(22)
A new cultural pattern: the polis and its types
Historical tradition and the philosophical idealisation of Sparta
Tyrtaeus' call to arete
The City-State and Its Ideal of Justice	99	(16)
Ionian and Aeolian Poetry: the Individual Shapes his own Personality	115	(21)
Solon: Creator of Athenian Political Culture	136	(14)
Philosophical Speculation: the Discovery of the World-Order	150	(35)
The Aristocracy: Conflict and Transformation:	185	(38)
The transmission of Theognis' poems
The codification of the aristocratic educational tradition
Pindar, the voice of aristocracy
The Cultural Policy of the Tyrants	223	(14)
BOOK TWO The Mind of Athens
The Drama of Aeschylus	237	(31)
Sophocles and the Tragic Character	268	(18)
The Sophists:	286	(46)
Their position in the history of culture
The origins of educational theory and the ideal of culture
Education and the political crisis
Euripides and his Age	332	(26)
The Comic Poetry of Aristophanes	358	(24)
Thucydides: Political Philosopher	382	(33)
Notes	415	(76)
Index	491