The Discovery of the Mind: In Greek Philosophy and LiteratureGerman classicist's monumental study of the origins of European thought in Greek literature and philosophy. Brilliant, widely influential. Includes "Homer's View of Man," "The Olympian Gods," "The Rise of the Individual in the Early Greek Lyric," "Pindar's Hymn to Zeus," "Myth and Reality in Greek Tragedy," and "Aristophanes and Aesthetic Criticism." |
Contents
The Olympian Gods | 23 |
The Rise of the Individual in the Early | 43 |
Pindars Hymn to Zeus | 71 |
Myth and Reality in Greek Tragedy | 90 |
Aristophanes and Aesthetic Criticism | 113 |
Human Knowledge and Divine Knowledge | 136 |
A Brief Chapter from | 153 |
The Role of | 191 |
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abstract achievement Achilles action adjective Aeschylus Anacreon ancient animal Apollo appears Arcadia archaic Archilochus arete Aristophanes Athena Attic beauty become beginning Callimachus calls to virtue century choral classical comparison concept concerning concrete noun course death deity Dionysus divine early Greek eclogue Empedocles epic ethical Euripides existence expression eyes fact feeling force Fraenkel function Gallus gods happiness heart Heraclitus heroes Hesiod Homer human humanitas idea Iliad individual intellect Isocrates justice knowledge lion logical lyric means Medea merely metaphor mind moral motifs Muses myth mythical nature noos notion object Odysseus Olympian organ Parmenides Pelasgus philosophy Pindar Plato play poem poet poetic poetry psyche reality reflexion religious Roman Sappho says sense shepherds significance similes Socrates Solon song soul speak speech spirit Theocritus things thinking thought thymos tradition tragedy true truth Tyrtaeus understanding verb verse Virgil words Xenophanes Zeus