The Greek View of Life edition by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson Literature Fiction eBooks
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As a product of an educational system that did not include anything but passing reference to anything Greek, this old text is even more appreciated by me today. The time and place of its author's viewpoint, not so remotely distant from today's as his was to ancient Greece, are still so far forward from the Greek view of life, that you have the pleasure of feeling as if you are looking back over your shoulder, but first looking at Dickinson's time and a mindset of his era, then, taking another look back from over Dickinson's shoulder to the Greek view of life. It is an interesting read, at times dry, but well worth the few hours to do as it is a small book. So, the distance from dry to entertaining is at no point a long distance, but easily traversed. Buy the book. You'll enjoy it.Product details
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The Greek View of Life edition by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This book explains concepts that are essential to understanding ancient Greek culture and history. This book describes how the Greeks prized beauty and health and how that influenced their religion and art.
The quarrel of the philosophers with the myths is not that they are not true, but that they are not edifying. The opposition between science and religion was developed early in ancient Greece. Plato, the deepest thinker, was also the farthest from popular faith. The Greek religion involved a belief in a number of deities who were personifications of the powers of nature and were founders and sustainers of civil society. The harmony which was the essence of Greek civilization was a temporary compromise.
In the Greek conception the citizen was an aristocrat. In the majority of the Greek states slaves were a greater part of the population. The states Crete and Sparta were practically military garrisons. The majority of the Greek states were in a constant state of flux. The Peloponnesian War represented a contest between democratic and oligarchic states. Plato based his REPUBLIC chiefly on Sparta. The constitution of Athens was political equality imposed on social inequality. The Greek states were not well-organized.
The fusian of the idea of the beautiful and the good is the control point in the Greek theory of art. Primarily, Greek sculpture was an expression of the national religion. Music was the center of Greek education. Music is a union of melody and rhythm and poetry. Poetry was viewed as a storehouse of practical wisdom. To represent suffering as the punishment of sin is the constant bent of Aeschylus. To justify the law of God against the presumption of man is the central idea of Sophocles. In Greek tragedy the general point of view predominates. The Greeks sought to create and maintain essential harmony.
Textbooks on the history of philosophy tend to be remotely dry. They just summarize the text in arid words, and then skip to the next philosopher in the chronicle order. Writers of those textbook seem to think that we should rever the philopophers, do not understand them. Reading through them only gives us the superficial impression and worse, the knowledge we¡¯ve got is likely to be evaporated to the oblivion. We can¡¯t imagine that those philosophers lived their own life and breathed the air just like us. But the texts they left to us have what to say. And it¡¯s closely related to its own time. To understand those texts, we need to know their worlds, for the text says about the world it¡¯s written. Greek philosophy and literature also should be apprehended with such background knowledge. For example, there were no professional philosophers isolated from the rest of the society in Archaic Greek world, like professors of philosophy we could see in our Universities. Greek philosophers told about their worldly affairs. So Aristotle was mastered that much various fields from political sciences, ethics, aesthetics, cosmology to botany. In other word, we should know their life to figure out what they say at all. Greek philosophy was not isolated from the society unlike contemporary philosophy. This book should be definitely helpful to know their time. As the title of the book implies, this deals with how the Greek saw their world. Each chapter describes the way they see elements of their world from the religion, the state, the individual, to the art. With closing the last page of the book, I bet you could illustrate what was the life of the Greek in your mind.
I read this book prior to beginning a course on Greek mythology, and I'm finding its insights into ancient Greek culture helpful as I follow my lessons.
As a product of an educational system that did not include anything but passing reference to anything Greek, this old text is even more appreciated by me today. The time and place of its author's viewpoint, not so remotely distant from today's as his was to ancient Greece, are still so far forward from the Greek view of life, that you have the pleasure of feeling as if you are looking back over your shoulder, but first looking at Dickinson's time and a mindset of his era, then, taking another look back from over Dickinson's shoulder to the Greek view of life. It is an interesting read, at times dry, but well worth the few hours to do as it is a small book. So, the distance from dry to entertaining is at no point a long distance, but easily traversed. Buy the book. You'll enjoy it.
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