The Theory and Practice of Life: Isocrates and the Philosophers: 54 (Hellenic Studies Series) - Softcover

Wareh, Tarik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674067134 ISBN 13: 9780674067134

Verlag: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Isocrates and the Philosophers

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Reseña del editor:

This book is a study of the literary culture within which the works, schools, and careers of Plato, Aristotle, and contemporary Greek intellectuals took shape. It argues that Isocrates' contemporary theory of training and self-formulation was an important provacation and creative inspiration to such works as Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics and Plato's Phaedrus. The second half of the book brings together the fragmentary evidence for the participation of "Isocrateans" in the philosophical polemics, princely didactics, and literary competition of the fourth century, shedding new light on the "lost years" of intellectual and literary history that lie before the dawn of the Hellenistic period.

Biografía del autor:

Tarik Wareh is Assistant Professor of Classics at Union College in Schenectady, NY.

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• Verlag: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0674067134
• ISBN 13: 9780674067134
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 244