Summary: What is "the good," and why is it that one can never step into the same river twice? This program featuring Princeton University's Alexander Nehamas and Richard Sorabji, honorary fellow at Wolfson College, the University of Oxford, addresses core topics in ancient philosophy such as freedom and fate, permanence and change, happiness, the nature of the cosmos, and the immortality of the soul....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The dialogues of Plato are analyzed in this program by world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Cambridge philosophy professor Myles Burnyeat. Seeing Plato's ideas initially as extensions of those of his teacher, Socrates, Burnyeat explains the development and content of Plato's original doctrines of knowledge as virtue, the immortality and tripartite division of the soul, and the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Newman, Sandra
Summary: Provides facts about ancient Greece, discussing the early Greeks, their government, the gods they worshipped, the first Olympics, arts and sciences, and the rise of the Roman empire, and considering the influence of the ancient Greeks in modern times. Includes maps, a time line, and photographs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2009