Aretai und Virtutes

ISBN-13: 9783110245943 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2010 / 368 str.

Carl Joachim Classen

Opis

This volume is dedicated to the ideals and standards of a number of Greek and Roman authors and artists: Hesiod, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle (to the orator), Philo, Clemens of Alexandria and Origenes, Lucilius, Lucretius, Cicero (with a representation of traditional Roman standards), Seneca, Quintilian, Claudian and the sarcophagi and triumphal arches, as well as a brief outline of the chequered history of the 'cardinal virtues.' All Greek and Latin quotes and terms are translated.

O autorze

Carl Joachim Classen, Georg-August Universität Göttingen.