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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton, 1994
DESCRIPTION
266 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0393310779 (pbk.) :, 9780393310771
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
East and West -- Mind and spirit -- The way of the East and West in art -- The greek way of writing -- Pindar, the last Greek aristocrat -- The Athenians as Plato saw them -- Aristophanes and the old comedy -- Herodotus, the first sight-seer -- Thucydides -- Xenophon, the ordinary Athenian gentleman -- The idea of tragedy -- Aeschylus, the first dramatist -- Sophocles, quintessence of the Greek -- Euripides, the modern mind -- The religion of the Greeks -- The way of the Greeks -- The way of the modern world