The Discovery of the Mind in Greek Philosophy and Literature

by: Snell, B.

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 In this immensely erudite book, German classicist Bruno Snell traces the establishment of a rational view of the nature of man as evidenced in the literature of the Greeks- in the creations of epic and lyric poetry, and in the drama. Here are the crucial stages in the intellectual evolution of the Greek world: the Homeric world view, the rise of the individual in the early Greek lyric, myth and reality in Greek tragedy, Greek ethics, the origin of scientific thought, and Arcadia
Homer's view of man
The Olympian gods
The rise of the individual in the early Greek lyric
Pindar's hymn to Zeus
Myth and reality in Greek tragedy
Aristophanes and aesthetic criticism
Human knowledge and divine knowledge among the early Greeks
The call to virtue: a brief chapter from Greek ethics
From myth to logic: the role of the comparison
The origin of scientific thought
The discovery of Humanitas, and our attitude toward the Greeks
Art and play in Callimachus
Arcadia: the discovery of a spiritual landscape

Translation of: Die Entdeckung des Geistes
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harper, 1960

Translated from German

xii, 323 pages ; 21 cm

The Discovery of the Mind in Greek Philosophy and Literature

by: Snell, B.

• ISBN-13: 9780486242644 / 978-0-486-24264-4
• ISBN-03: 0486242641 / 0-486-24264-1
• Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1982

Price: 35,00 EURO

1 copy in stock