Know Thyself

Know Thyself: Western Identity from Classical Greece to the Renaissance

by Rossellini, Ingrid

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Know Thyself : Western Identity from Classical Greece to the Renaissance.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2018.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:384 pages

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780385541886, 0385541880
  • oclc:on1059291780
  • LC Classification:D
  • Dewey Decimal:909.0000

Table of Contents

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Church authority versus state authority : the balance of power -- Cities and universities : the dawn of a new cultural era -- A new ar…

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Subjects

Civilisation occidentale -- Histoire Civilization, Western Civilization, Western -- History History Identité Identity Identity (Philosophical concept) Philosophie et civilisation -- Histoire Philosophy and civilization Philosophy and civilization -- History Religion and civilization Religion and civilization -- History Religion et civilisation -- Histoire

Writers

Rossellini, Ingrid

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