The Greeks An Introduction to Their Culture, 3rd edition

We can see this in the instances of bodily health and strength. Physical strength is destroyed by too much and also by too littl ...

10, 7). This leisure will be spent partly in relaxation and simple amusement, but the man who would be happy will use it to furt ...

210 THE GREEKS self-sufficiency and offered a safe haven for the individual less attached to the political world. Zeno of Citium ...

Cleanthes, Zeno’s successor as head of the Stoic school, emphasizes the religious side of the Stoic doctrine in his Hymn to Zeus ...

a kind of species contained in them, are magnanimity, continence, endurance, presence of mind, wisdom in council. And the Stoics ...

When we say, then, that pleasure is the end and aim, we do not mean the pleasures of the prodigal or the pleasures of sensuality ...

logic became the basis of scholasticism, while the Christian philosophy of Aquinas (AD1225–1274) was a fusion of Aristotelianism ...

Hippocrates of Cos, a contemporary of Socrates and the most famous name in the history of ancient medicine, is traditionally cre ...

production of semen was completed in the blood vessels and assigned no function in this respect to the testes, Herophilus believ ...

same weight as Hiero’s crown, one of gold, the other of silver, and measuring the amount of water displaced when each was immers ...

microscope or telescope. On the other hand, the recent discovery of the ‘Antikythera mechanism’, a remarkably complex device for ...

6 ART . .. and generally art partly completes what nature cannot bring to a finish, and partly imitates her. Aristotle, Physics, ...

Geometric beginnings (ninth and eighth centuries) Of the physical remains of Greek art that survive antiquity the most substanti ...

ART 221 designed to satisfy geometrical considerations, for the composition of the human scene is split into four parts which ha ...

222 THE GREEKS to it not only for the principal reason that it is situated between the handles at the broadest point of the pot. ...

ART 223 FIGURE 45 Corinthian jug c. 630 BC Source:Photo © Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich ...

no discernible pattern in the decoration. There is a unifying element in the dual-tone colouring of the animals, but again the c ...

The vase has been beautifully conceived as a whole. The plain black areas of the neck and the lower half offset the central band ...

the shoulders right down to the pointed ends of his cloak overlapping the seat. The knee guard pointing upwards acts as a counte ...

In the first place, the figure is completely nude where the Egyptian statues are either wholly costumed or discreetly draped abo ...