The world examined by the ancient Greek philosophers and poets was distinctly different from our own. And that context, the author argues, has been missing from later evaluations of their work. Here is the Greek view of life in the classical age—perspectives on the state, the individual, religion, and art—as seen by writers such as Aristotle, Euripides, Homer, Plato, and Sophocles, among many others.
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G. Lowes Dickinson (1862-1932) was a noted British historian and fellow at King’s College, Cambridge. He was closely associated with the Bloomsbury group. A pacifist, his writings helped to further the establishment the League of Nations. His works include Revolution and Reaction in Modern France (1892), Religion, a Criticism and a Forecast (1905), and After Two Thousand Years: a Dialogue between Plato and a Modern Young Man (1930).
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