The Greek View of LifeMcClure, Phillips, 1906 - Всего страниц: 236 |
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Achilles Æschylus æsthetic Agamemnon ancient ancient Greece Anthesteria Apollo Aristophanes Aristotle Athenian Athens beauty BLEPS character chorus citizen Clytemnestra conceived consciousness criticism cult dance death deities Dionysus divine drama earth elements endeavour Eschylus ethical Euripides evil example external fact father festival gods grace Greece Greek civilisation Greek conception Greek ideal Greek religion Greek view hand happy harmony heart heaven heroes Homer honour human idea Iliad illustration individual intellect Jowett Leaf and Myers least legends means Mimnermus mind modern moral myths nature Odysseus Orestes passage passion Percy Gardner Persephone philosopher physical Pindar Plato pleasure Plutarch poetry poets point of view political popular punishment realise recognised regarded relation religious ritual sacrifice sense slave SOCR Socrates soul Sparta speculation spiritual STREPS thee theme things thou Thucydides tragedy translation true virtue whole wind word Zagreus Zeus
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Стр. 27 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Стр. 186 - Glaucon, musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul...
Стр. 174 - ... drawing towards and contemplating the vast sea of beauty, he will create many fair and noble thoughts and notions in boundless love of wisdom; until on that store he grows and waxes strong, and at last the vision is revealed to him of a single science which is the science of beauty everywhere.
Стр. 158 - Dear, but let us type them now In our own lives, and this proud watchword rest Of equal; seeing either sex alone Is half itself, and in true marriage lies Nor equal, nor unequal: each fulfils Defect in each, and always thought in thought, Purpose in purpose, will in will, they grow, The single pure and perfect animal, The two-cell'd heart beating, with one full stroke, Life.
Стр. 168 - The truth of the matter is this: No god is a philosopher or seeker after wisdom, for he is wise already; nor does any man who is wise seek after wisdom. Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom. For herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he has no desire for that of which he feels no want.' ' But who then, Diotima,' I said, ' are the lovers of wisdom, if they are neither the wise nor the f oolish? ' ' A child may answer that...
Стр. 185 - We would not have our guardians grow up amid images of moral deformity, as in some noxious pasture, and there browse and feed upon many a baneful herb and flower day by day, little by little, until they silently gather a festering mass of corruption in their own soul.
Стр. 152 - Trojans, winning my father's great glory and mine own. Yea of a surety I know this in heart and soul; the day shall come for holy Ilios to be laid low, and Priam and the folk of Priam of the good ashen spear. Yet doth the anguish of the Trojans hereafter not so much trouble me, neither Hekabe's own, neither king Priam's, neither my brethren's, the many and brave that shall fall in the dust before their foemen, as doth thine anguish in the day when some mail-clad Achaian shall lead thee weeping and...
Стр. 174 - ... the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another; and then if beauty of form in general is his pursuit, how foolish would he be not to recognize that the beauty in every form is one and the same! And when he perceives this he will abate his violent love of the one, which he will despise and deem a small thing, and will become a lover of all beautiful forms; in the next stage he will consider that the beauty of the mind is more...
Стр. 201 - ... at school; in these are contained many admonitions and many tales, and praises, and encomia of ancient famous men which he is required to learn by heart, in order that he may imitate or emulate them and desire to become like them.
Стр. 172 - Those who are pregnant in the body only, betake themselves to women and beget children - this is the character of their love; their offspring, as they hope, will preserve their memory and give them the blessedness and immortality which they desire in the future. But...