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Publisher
Arte France Développement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (338 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Each episode has artists and intellectuals from around the world start with a Greek word and use it as a starting point for a wide-ranging exploration of the influence of Greek culture on today's society."--Container
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
xxix, 328 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
For over two millennia in the West, familiarity with the literature, philosophy, and values of the Classical World has been synonymous with education itself. The traditions of the Greeks explain why Western Culture’s unique tenets of democracy, capitalism, civil liberty, and constitutional government are now sweeping the globe. Yet the general public in America knows less about its cultural origins than ever before, as Classical education rapidly...
3) The cave and the light: Plato versus Aristotle and the struggle for the soul of Western civilization
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xxiii, 676 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
-- The Cave and the Light -- -- — -- “A fabulous way to understand over two millennia of history, all in one book.” -- “Entertaining and often illuminating.”—The Wall Street Journal
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