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Plato S Academy
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Author : Paul Kalligas
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-12
Plato S Academy written by Paul Kalligas and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-12 with History categories.
A comprehensive, interdisciplinary history of Plato's Academy, the most prominent philosophical school in antiquity, which lasted for about 300 years. Also includes the first complete annotated translation in English of Philodemus' History of the Academy, preserved on a papyrus from Herculaneum.
Plato S Academy And The Eternal Key
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Author : Ali Gray
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-04-14
Plato S Academy And The Eternal Key written by Ali Gray and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-14 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
After the death of his grandfather, Charlie discovers a letter that leads to the museum in search of a scroll. He follows the instructions from the letter and finds himself in Ancient Greece. Before Charlie can return home, he will need to pass the Oracle's tests but first he will need to stay alive.
The Mathematics Of Plato S Academy
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Author : D. H. Fowler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Mathematics Of Plato S Academy written by D. H. Fowler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Mathematics categories.
This is an updated edition of a groundbreaking examination of early Greek mathematics. The author has revised parts of the text, updated the bibliography, and added a new Appendix where he takes a strong position in the continuing debate about the nature and range of classical mathematics. The first part presents several new interpretations of the idea of ratio in early Greek mathematics and illustrates these in detailed discussions of several texts. Part Two then focuses on the sources themselves and provides a critical look at our knowledge of Plato's Academy during his lifetime, at the source of our text of Euclid's Elements, and at our understanding of early Greek mathematics. The final part contrasts some of the evidence from early and late antiquity and then gives a historical account, beginning in the seventeenth century, of the modern theory of continued fractions, which underlies our reconstruction of early Greek mathematics.
Women In The Academy
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Author : C. D. C. Reeve
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Women In The Academy written by C. D. C. Reeve and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
Reeves (philosophy, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) wrote and presented these dialogues as part of a humanities course at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. The dialogues, which touch on many of the philosophical themes of Plato's Republic, take place between the two women students reputed to be members of Plato's Academy and Plato, their fellow students, and Aristotle.
The Seventh Letter
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Author : Mihai Spariosu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-05
The Seventh Letter written by Mihai Spariosu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05 with categories.
The Time is 347 B.C.Aging Plato has FallenSeriously IllA group of his followers, including his nephew, Speusippus, and his most brilliant student,Aristotle, are waiting to be called to his bedside. The two younger philosophers are embroiled in academic politics. They expect Plato to endorse one of them as his successor to the leadership of the Academy. But an unexpected turn of events casts doubt on the future of the School, as well as that of the entire Greek world. The previous night someone has thrown a mysterious scroll into Plato's bedroom. It contains what has come down to posterity as his famed, but controversial,Seventh Letter?"I loved the book. It is much more than a historical novel; I found it to be an entertaining and gripping biographical documentary staging Plato, Socrates and the Athenian Academy.The reader can become acquainted with Plato's philosophy without abstraction, as the ideas are imbedded in the narrative."- Nassim Nicholas TalebBest selling Author of The Black Swan
The Mathematics Of Plato S Academy
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Author : D. H. Fowler
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1987
The Mathematics Of Plato S Academy written by D. H. Fowler and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with History categories.
This book presents a reinterpretation of early Greek mathematics, one of the most tantalizing intellectual subjects of the last 2,000 years. The first part offers several new interpretations of the idea of ratio in early Greek mathematics and illustrates them in detailed discussion of several texts. Part Two discusses the historical context of the subject--what we know of Plato's academy during his lifetime, the origin of our text of Euclid's Elements, and what we know of early Greek numerical practice. The book finishes with an account of the theory of continued fractions and its history since the 17th century.
Boarding School Homosexuality
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Author : Michael Hone
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-01-13
Boarding School Homosexuality written by Michael Hone and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-13 with categories.
In writing this book I'm casting very large. Academies and Lyceums in Greece, home of the world's most beautiful ephebes, Spartan barracks, schools and sexuality in Rome and how they compared with those of Ancient Athens. Renaissance communal life in artists' workshops and ateliers, the boarding schools of the times, where, because girls were protected with Brinks-like security, boys whiled away the nights in virile couplings, the days in lewd gestures and lewder jokes. The golden age of boarding-school homosexuality was England of the 1800s and 1900s [Oxford, Cambridge, Harrow, Eton and others], which spilled over, homoerotically, into the Apostles and the Bloomsbury Set that I've treated in fully-illustrated detail, as well as the eroticism in today's dormitories, the Princeton Rub an example. There is a full section on the erotic Greek and Roman texts professors used to excite the imaginations of the boys, laying the grounds for later private tutorials. Apprenticeships on vessels, the berths the ship's dormitories, led to matelotage, male sexual liaisons and the trial of the century. Included within are the lives of the most supremely unique individuals to have lived: Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Lorenzo de' Medici, da Vinci, Cellini, Byron, Rupert Brooke, Duncan Grant, Maynard Keynes, T.E. Lawrence, Caravaggio, Michelangelo--issued from various types of schools, men who have enriched us forever, men of genius who happened to have preferred other men. In order to place this book in the hands of students, it has been priced at the lowest sum permitted by the editors.
Plato
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Author : Avi I. Mintz
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-03-08
Plato written by Avi I. Mintz and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-08 with Education categories.
This book opens by providing the historical context of Plato’s engagement with education, including an overview of Plato’s life as student and educator. The author organizes his discussion of education in the Platonic Corpus around Plato’s images, both the familiar – the cave, the gadfly, the torpedo fish, and the midwife – and the less familiar – the intellectual aviary, the wax tablet, and the kindled fire. These educational images reveal that, for Plato, philosophizing is inextricably linked to learning; that is, philosophy is fundamentally an educational endeavor. The book concludes by exploring Plato’s legacy in education, discussing the use of the “Socratic method” in schools and the Academy’s foundational place in the history of higher education. The characters in Plato’s dialogues often debate – sometimes with great passion – the purpose of education and the nature of learning. The claims about education in the Platonic corpus are so provocative, nuanced, insightful, and controversial that educational philosophers have reckoned with them for millennia.
Two Studies In The Early Academy
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Author : R. M. Dancy
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1991-01-01
Two Studies In The Early Academy written by R. M. Dancy and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
This book presents two new interpretations of the evidence regarding the metaphysical ideas of two important figures in Plato's Academy, Eudoxus and Speusippus, and of Aristotle's reaction to those ideas. The central question has to do with Plato's "Theory of Forms." The first interpretation portrays Eudoxus reviving a view of Anaxagoras' and advocating that the Forms are physical ingredients in things. This has affinities with Aristotle's own view, so it is interesting that Aristotle argues for its rejection. The essay extracts Aristotle's arguments from material in late sources and examines them in depth. The second interpretation discusses Speusippus' replacement of the Theory of Forms with a theory that derives all that there is from the One, which does not itself exist. His argument for this strange position is reconstructed, and the relations between the theory of causality, to which it is opposed, are laid out. The Academy was not a source of dogma, but of discussion. In reconstructing central aspects of that discussion, these interpretations seek to get behind mere reportage of what little is known to the actual arguments current in the halls of the Academy.
The Origins Of The Platonic Academy Of Florence
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Author : Arthur M. Field
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
The Origins Of The Platonic Academy Of Florence written by Arthur M. Field and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with History categories.
Founded by Cosimo de' Medici in the early 1460s, the Platonic Academy shaped the literary and artistic culture of Florence in the later Renaissance and influenced science, religion, art, and literature throughout Europe in the early modern period. This major study of the Academy's beginnings presents a fresh view of the intellectual and cultural life of Florence from the Peace of Lodi of 1454 to the death of Cosimo a decade later. Challenging commonly held assumptions about the period, Arthur Field insists that the Academy was not a hothouse plant, grown and kept alive by the Medici in the splendid isolation of their villas and courts. Rather, Florentine intellectuals seized on the Platonic truths and propagated them in the heart of Florence, creating for the Medici and other Florentines a new ideology. Based largely on new or neglected manuscript sources, this book includes discussions of the earliest works by the head of the Academy, Marsilio Ficino, and the first public, Platonizing lectures of the humanist and poet Cristoforo Landino. The author also examines the contributions both of religious orders and of the Byzantines to the Neoplatonic revival. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.