Greece category: 2003 books

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé.  Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait: SOCRATE. Où vas-tu donc, mon cher Phèdre, et d’où viens-tu ?...

Platón escribió “El banquete” alrededor del año 380 a.c. En griego se titula Symposión. Es un dialogo socrático escrita en forma de drama, y versa sobre el amor. De este y del dialogo Fedro se deriva el concepto de amor platónico.  

The last and longest philosophical dialogue of ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician Plato, which deals with the philosophical problem of who should be given the credit for laying down laws.

The Enchiridion or Manual of Epictetus is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice compiled by Arrian, a 2nd-century disciple of the Greek philosopher Epictetus. Although the content is similar to the Discourses of Epictetus, it is not a summary of the Discourses but rather a compilation of practical...

Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagination of the West for more than 2,000 years: what is virtue? How should we love? What constitutes...

The Republic written by Plato.The Republic was a masterpiece opus of Plato.The dialogue in the book contain the theory of knowledge,philosophy,psychology and further than politics.

The Laws is Plato's last and longest dialogue. The question asked at the beginning is not "What is law?" as one would expect- that is the question of the Minos. The first question is rather, "Who is given the credit for laying down your laws?"It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue...

Le Manuel d'Épictète, désignant « ce que l'on garde sous la main » et parfois simplement nommé Le Manuel, est un ouvrage compilé par Arrien. Sans doute publié pour la première fois autour de l'an 125, il s'agit d'un court livre résumant...

Blighted and accursed families are an inescapable feature of Greek tragedy, and many scholars have treated questions of inherited guilt, curses, and divine causation. N.J. Sewell-Rutter gives these familiar issues a fresh appraisal, arguing that tragedy is a medium that fuses the conceptual with the...

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la bataille des Thermopyles en moins d’une heure ! En 480 av. J.-C., l’Empire perse s’apprête à tenter une nouvelle invasion de la Grèce. Décidé à se battre, Léonidas Ier lève une armée de plusieurs milliers d’hommes. Tous se dirigent...

Extrait :  Commençons notre chant par les Muses, habitantes du haut et divin Hélicon, qui, près d’une noire fontaine, devant  l’autel du puissant fils de Cronos, mènent des danses légères ; qui, après avoir baigné leur beau corps...

La Grèce est à la source de la culture occidentale et de l'histoire européenne. Foyer artistique, philosophique et littéraire, mais aussi mère de la démocratie, terre d’origine du sport et du commerce, elle n’a cessé, tout au long de son histoire, d’enrichir notre héritage culturel...

Along with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) is one of the triumvirate of philosophers responsible for the establishment of Western philosophy as it exists today. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were among the first to refine philosophical thought, and Socrates is credited with devising the...

Along with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) is one of the triumvirate of philosophers responsible for the establishment of Western philosophy as it exists today. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were among the first to refine philosophical thought, and Socrates is credited with devising the...