Know thyself
Subtitle: Western identity from classical Greece to the Renaissance
By: by Ingrid Rossellini
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 469
ISBN-13: 9780385541886
Subjects: History; Religion and civilization; Western Civilization; Identity (Philosophical concept); Philosophy and civilization
Description: Introduces the origins of self-understanding in the cultures of Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, and explains how Western civilization frames the issues of self and society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-448) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one: Ancient Greece; title: The Birth of the polis; title: Sparta and Athens; title: Reason, the irrational and the danger of hubris; title: Hesiod and the cosmic origin of the world; title: The heroic ideal; title: Greek art : reason versus passion; title: From mythology to philosophy; title: Pythagoras : the divine reason and the immortal soul; title: The myth of the rational west versus the irrational east; title: Splendor and contradiction of the classical age; title: The achievements of theatre, rhetoric and philosophy; title: From Plato to Aristotle : the empowering wisdom of philosophy; title: The Hellenistic era; title: Part two: Ancient Rome; title: The Roman Republic : history and myth; title: Augustus and the empire : the theatre of politics and power; title: Augustus's successors; title: The decline of the empire and the rise of Christianity; title: Augustine's tale of two cities; title: Part three: The early Middle Ages; title: The triumph of Christianity and the demise of the rational mind; title: The symbolic discourse of art; title: The new vocabulary of faith and spirituality; title: Latin West versus Greek East; title: The monastic experience; title: From the iconoclastic revolt to the splendor of Byzantine art; title: Charlemagne and feudalism; title: Part four: the later Middle Ages; title: Church authority versus state authority : a difficult balance of power; title: Cities and universities : the dawn of a new cultural era; title: A new art for a new sensibility; title: The crusades; title: Wealth and power versus poverty and humility : the two faces of Christianity; title: The rehabilitation of man within the ordered universe of God; title: The gradual secularization of culture; title: Dante's summa : The Divine Comedy; title: Part five: Humanism and the Renaissance; title: The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries : the historical context; title: The Italian city-states; title: Petrarch's literary humanism; title: Political humanism; title: Florence : the city of splendor; title: Lorenzo the Magnificent and his court; title: The gathering clouds of disenchantment and cynicism; title: The Roman Renaissance : glory and ambiguity; title: The Protestant Reformation and the sack of Rome; title: The last judgment.