The Greek View of LifeDickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)
Religion
The Greek View of Life
Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)
Greece -- Civilization
ARISTOPHANES (C. B.C. 444--380). "The Acharnians,
the Knights, and the Birds," translated by JOHN HOOKHAM
FRERE (Morley's Universal Library, Routledge).
[Also the "Frogs" and the "Peace" in his Collected
Works, (Pickering)].
The "Clouds," the "Lysistrata" ["Women in Revolt,"]
the "Peace," and the "Wasps," translated by B. B. ROGERS
ARISTOTLE (B.C. 384--322). The "Ethics," the "Politics,"
and the "Rhetoric," translated by J. E. C. WELLDON
(Macmillan & Co.).
DEMOSTHENES (B.C. 385--322). "Orations," translated by
C. R. KENNEDY (Bell).
EURIPIDES (B.C. 480--406). "Tragedies," translated by
A. S. WAY (Macmillan & Co.).
HERODOTUS (B.C. 484-- ). "The History," translated
by S. R. RAWLINSON (Murray).
HOMER. The "Iliad," translated by LANG, LEAF AND MYERS;
the "Odyssey," translated by BUTCHER & LANG (Macmillan).
PINDAR (B.C. 522--442). "Odes," translated by E. MYERS
(Macmillan & Co.).
PLATO (B.C. 430--347). The "Dialogues," translated by
B. JOWETT (Clarendon Press).
"The Republic," translated by DAVIES AND VAUGHAN
(Macmillan & Co.).
PLUTARCH. "Lives," DRYDEN'S translation, edited by
A. CLOUGH (Sampson Low, Marston & Co.).
SOPHOCLES (B.C. 496--406). Edited and Translated by DR. JEBB
(Cambridge University Press).
THUCYDIDES (B.C. 471-- ), edited and translated by
B. JOWETT (Clarendon Press).
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.--THE GREEK VIEW OF RELIGION
1. Introductory
2. Greek Religion an Interpretation of Nature
3. Greek Religion an Interpretation of the Human Passions
4. Greek Religion the Foundation of Society
5. Religious Festivals
6. The Greek Conception of the Relation of Man to the Gods
7. Divination, Omens, Oracles
8. Sacrifice and Atonement
9. Guilt and Punishment
10. Mysticism
11. The Greek View of Death and a Future Life
12. Critical and Sceptical Opinion in Greece
13. Ethical Criticism
14. Transition to Monotheism
15. Metaphysical Criticism
16. Metaphysical reconstruction--Plato
17. Summary
CHAPTER II.--THE GREEK VIEW OF THE STATE
1. The Greek State a "City"
2. The Relation of the State to the Citizen
3. The Greek View of Law
4. Artisans and Slaves
5. The Greek State primarily Military, not Industrial
6. Forms of Government in the Greek State
7. Faction and Anarchy
8. Property and the Communistic Ideal
9. Sparta
10. Athens
11. Sceptical Criticism of the Basis of the State
12. Summary
CHAPTER III.--THE GREEK VIEW OF THE INDIVIDUAL
1. The Greek View of Manual Labour and Trade
2. Appreciation of External Goods
3. Appreciation of Physical Qualities
4. Greek Athletics
5. Greek Ethics--Identification of the Aesthetic and Ethical Points of View
6. The Greek View of Pleasure
7. Illustrations.--Ischomachus; Socrates
8. The Greek View of Woman
9. Protests against the Common View of Woman
10. Friendship
11. Summary
CHAPTER IV.--THE GREEK VIEW OF ART
1. Greek Art an Expression of National Life
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