Know thyself

Know thyself: Western identity from classical Greece to the Renaissance

by Rossellini, Ingrid

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Introduces the origins of self-understanding in the cultures of Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, and explains how Western civilization frames the issues of self and society.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Know thyself : Western identity from classical Greece to the Renaissance / Ingrid Rossellini.

Summary

Introduces the origins of self-understanding in the cultures of Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, and explains how Western civilization frames the issues of self and society.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:© 2018
  • Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Doubleday
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:© 2018

The Physical Object

  • Description:xxii, 469 Seiten : : Illustrationen ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0385541880, 9780385541886
  • oclc:on1042912965
  • LC Classification:CB245
  • Dewey Decimal:001.09

Table of Contents

Part one: Ancient Greece -- The Birth of the polis -- Sparta and Athens -- Reason, the irrational and the danger of hubris -- Hesiod and the cosmic origin of the world -- The heroic ideal -- Greek art : reason versus passion -- From mythology to philosophy -- Pythagoras : the divine reason and the immortal soul -- The myth of the rational west versus the irrational east -- Splendor and contradiction of the classical age -- The achievements of theatre, rhetoric and philosophy -- From Plato to Aristotle : the empowering wisdom of philosophy -- The Hellenistic era -- Part two: Ancient Rome -- The Roman Republic : history and myth -- Augustus and the empire : the theatre of politics and power -- Augustus's successors -- The decline of the empire and the rise of Christianity -- Augustine's tale of two cities -- Part three: The early Middle Ages -- The triumph of Christianity and the demise of the rational mind -- The symbolic discourse of art -- .

The new vocabulary of faith and spirituality -- Latin West versus Greek East -- The monastic experience -- From the iconoclastic revolt to the splendor of Byzantine art -- Charlemagne and feudalism -- Part four: the later Middle Ages -- Chur…

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Subjects

ART -- History Civilisation occidentale -- Histoire Civilization, Western Civilization, Western -- History Geschichte 500 v. Chr.-1600 Griechenland History HISTORY -- Civilization Identität IDENTITÄTSPHILOSOPHIE Identité Identity Identity (Philosophical concept) Kulturgeschichte der Antike Nonfiction Philosophie Philosophie et civilisation -- Histoire Philosophy Philosophy and civilization Philosophy and civilization -- History

Writers

Rossellini, Ingrid

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