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The new interest in Antiquity, which is currently being spurred on
by arts, science of art, philology and philosophy, may receive
additional momentum from this superior work by a significant
scholar of Classical Greek Studies, who strived to re-establish
humanism. It also enables the reader to view the present from a
historical distance. Prof. Dr. Volker Gerhardt, Humboldt University
Berlin"
This small book, the last work of a world-renowned scholar, has
established itself as a classic. It provides a superb overview of
the vast historical process by which Christianity was Hellenized
and Hellenic civilization became Christianized.
Jaeger shows that without the large postclassical expansion of
Greek culture the rise of a Christian world religion would have
been impossible. He explains why the Hellenization of Christianity
was necessary in apostolic and postapostalic times; points out
similarities between Greek philosophy and Christian belief; discuss
such key figures as Clement, Origen, and Gregory of Nyssa; and
touches on the controversies that led to the ultimate complex
synthesis of Greek and Christian thought.
The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca
Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reliability and presentation.
The series consists of a text without commentary but with a brief
apparatus criticus at the foot of each page. There are now over 100
volumes, representing the greater part of classical Greek and Latin
literature.
Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in
1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek
character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature,
and philosophy is the basis for Jaeger's evaluation of Hellenic
culture.
Volume I describes the foundation, growth, and crisis of Greek
culture during the archaic and classical epochs, ending with the
collapse of the Athenian empire. The second and third volumes of
the work deal with the intellectual history of ancient Greece in
the Age of Plato, the 4th century B.C.--the age in which Greece
lost everything that is valued in this world--state, power,
liberty--but still clung to the concept of paideia. As its last
great poet, Menander summarized the primary role of this ideal in
Greek culture when he said: "The possession which no one can take
away from man is paideia."
Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in
1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek
character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature,
and philosophy is the basis for Jaeger's evaluation of Hellenic
culture.
Volume I describes the foundation, growth, and crisis of Greek
culture during the archaic and classical epochs, ending with the
collapse of the Athenian empire. The second and third volumes of
the work deal with the intellectual history of ancient Greece in
the Age of Plato, the 4th century B.C.--the age in which Greece
lost everything that is valued in this world--state, power,
liberty--but still clung to the concept of paideia. As its last
great poet, Menander summarized the primary role of this ideal in
Greek culture when he said: "The possession which no one can take
away from man is paideia."
Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in
1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek
character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature,
and philosophy is the basis for Jaeger's evaluation of Hellenic
culture.
Volume I describes the foundation, growth, and crisis of Greek
culture during the archaic and classical epochs, ending with the
collapse of the Athenian empire. The second and third volumes of
the work deal with the intellectual history of ancient Greece in
the Age of Plato, the 4th century B.C.--the age in which Greece
lost everything that is valued in this world--state, power,
liberty--but still clung to the concept of paideia. As its last
great poet, Menander summarized the primary role of this ideal in
Greek culture when he said: "The possession which no one can take
away from man is paideia."
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