The Greeks who made us who we are : eighteen ancient philosophers, scientists, poets and others / M.A. Soupios.
"In particular, it seeks to disclose two distinctive features of Western culture uniquely attributable to the ancient Greeks: A human-centered worldview that elevated humans to the threshold of divinity and a philosophical temperament which for the first time in history proffered unbridled operation of the human mind as a kind of cultural imperative"--Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780786472734 (softcover : acid free paper)
- ISBN: 0786472731 (softcover : acid free paper)
- Physical Description: vii, 239 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Homer (mid to late 8th century B.C.) : founder of western humanism -- Solon (630-560 B.C.) : poet, lawgiver, statesman -- Thales (early 6th century) : father of western science -- Sappho (612-580 B.C.) : poet on fire -- Pythagoras (mid-500s-496 B.C.) : mystic mathematician -- Parmenides (born c. 515 B.C.) : father of metaphysics and logic -- Themistocles (524-459 B.C.) : savior of the western world Phidias (490-430 B.C.) : lord of western aesthetics -- Gorgias (483-376 B.C.) : master of the word -- Socrates (469-399 B.C.) : iconoclast and moral revolutionary -- Thucydides (460-399 B.C.) : true father of history -- Plato (427-347 B.C.) : fountainhead of western philosophy -- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) : polymathic genius -- Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) : disseminator of Greek culture -- Epicurus (341-270 B.C.) : physicist and ethician -- Zeno (335-263 B.C.) : stoic sage -- Galen (A.D. 129-199) : physician, scientist, philosopher. |
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Subject: | Philosophers, Ancient > Biography. Philosophy, Ancient. Humanism > History > To 1500. Greece > History > To 146 B.C. > Biography. |
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Kirtland Community College Library | B 168 .S68 2013 | 30775305475783 | General Collection | Available | - |