A History of Greek Philosophy: The fifth-century enlightenmentUniversity Press, 1962 - Philosophy, Ancient |
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... Aeschylus , but he whose knowledge is useful . At the same time there creeps in an ironic note , a hint that the sophos is too clever and may overreach himself . Taxed by the wily Odysseus ( whom he has earlier described as a sophos ...
... Aeschylus , but he whose knowledge is useful . At the same time there creeps in an ironic note , a hint that the sophos is too clever and may overreach himself . Taxed by the wily Odysseus ( whom he has earlier described as a sophos ...
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... Aeschylus and Euripides is fought on moral rather than aesthetic ground , and in the course of it Aeschylus expressly declares that , although the story of Phaedra's guilty love as Euripides told it might be true , a poet should conceal ...
... Aeschylus and Euripides is fought on moral rather than aesthetic ground , and in the course of it Aeschylus expressly declares that , although the story of Phaedra's guilty love as Euripides told it might be true , a poet should conceal ...
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... Aeschylus about a sophistes playing the lyre to illustrate his statement that ' all who practise the art of mousiké used to be called sophists ' , and the reference to the singer and musician Thamyris as sophistes in Euripides's Rhesus ...
... Aeschylus about a sophistes playing the lyre to illustrate his statement that ' all who practise the art of mousiké used to be called sophists ' , and the reference to the singer and musician Thamyris as sophistes in Euripides's Rhesus ...
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... Aeschylus . His Prometheus , the bringer of fire to men , who taught them all crafts and raised them from savagery to civilization , is roughly addressed by Hermes as ' you , the sophist , who have sinned against the gods ' , and is ...
... Aeschylus . His Prometheus , the bringer of fire to men , who taught them all crafts and raised them from savagery to civilization , is roughly addressed by Hermes as ' you , the sophist , who have sinned against the gods ' , and is ...
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... Aeschylus did . Instead we have Euripides with his plays of adultery , incest and deceit , his flaunting of the mean and sordid , his endless quibbling talk . All this , thought Aristophanes , came of follow- ing the new atheistical ...
... Aeschylus did . Instead we have Euripides with his plays of adultery , incest and deceit , his flaunting of the mean and sordid , his endless quibbling talk . All this , thought Aristophanes , came of follow- ing the new atheistical ...
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A History of Greek Philosophy: The fifth-century enlightenment William Keith Chambers Guthrie No preview available - 1962 |
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