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The Greek View of Life

The Greek View of Life

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Number of Chapters: 52

Length: 10 hours and 55 minutes

Language: English

“With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the truth of all existence.”

This elegantly-written work provides a splendid introduction to the Greeks of the classic period: how they thought, wrote, and organised their lives and loves. Although it dates from the 1890s, there is very little about it that has dated. To its author’s credit, the subject of “Greek love” is dealt with in a sane and factual context - despite the judicial assassination of Oscar Wilde going on in the background.

A Cambridge don much admired by his students (including E. M. Forster), Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson belonged to the Apostles, a secret society with a strong ethic of male friendship. Alfred Tennyson and his beloved Arthur Hallam were early members. Dickinson is chiefly remembered as a historian and pacifist who played a significant part in the founding of the League of Nations. Inevitably, given his interests and intellectual background, he became a close associate of the Bloomsbury Group.


The Greek View of Life is no dry academic tome. It is a popularizing work in the best sense: accessibly written and illustrated with apt quotations given in sturdy translations, never in the original Greek. It is a joy to read.
(Introduction by Martin Geeson)

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01 - Chapter I: The Greek View of Religion. Section 1 - Introductory (Martin Geeson)
02 - I.2 Greek Religion an Interpretation of Nature (Martin Geeson)
03 - I.3 Greek Religion an Interpretation of the Human Passions (Martin Geeson)
04 - I.4 Greek Religion the Foundation of Society (Martin Geeson)
05 - I.5 Religious Festivals (Martin Geeson)
06 - I.6 The Greek Conception of the Relation of Man to the Gods (Martin Geeson)
07 - I.7 Divination, Omens, Oracles (Martin Geeson)
08 - I.8 Sacrifice and Atonement (Martin Geeson)
09 - I.9 Guilt and Punishment (Martin Geeson)
10 - I.10 Mysticism (Martin Geeson)
11 - I.11 The Greek View of Death and a Future Life (Martin Geeson)
12 - I.12 Critical and Sceptical Opinion in Greece (Martin Geeson)
13 - I.13 Ethical Criticism (Martin Geeson)
14 - I.14 Transition to Monotheism (Martin Geeson)
15 - I.15 Metaphysical Criticism (Martin Geeson)
16 - I.16 Metaphysical Reconstruction - Plato (Martin Geeson)
17 - I.17 Summary (Martin Geeson)
18 - Chapter II: The Greek View of the State. Section 1 - The Greek State a 'City' (Martin Geeson)
19 - II.2 The Relation of the State to the Citizen (Martin Geeson)
20 - II.3 The Greek View of Law (Martin Geeson)
21 - II.4 Artisans and Slaves (Martin Geeson)
22 - II.5 The Greek State Primarily Military, not Industrial (Martin Geeson)
23 - II.6 Forms of Government in the Greek State (Martin Geeson)
24 - II.7 Faction and Anarchy (Martin Geeson)
25 - II.8 Property and the Communistic Ideal (Martin Geeson)
26 - II.9 Sparta (Martin Geeson)
27 - II.10 Athens (Martin Geeson)
28 - II.11 Sceptical Criticism of the Basis of the State (Martin Geeson)
29 - II.12 Summary (Martin Geeson)
30 - Chapter III: The Greek View of the Individual. Section 1 - The Greek View of Manual Labour and Trade (Martin Geeson)
31 - III.2 Appreciation of External Goods (Martin Geeson)
32 - III.3 Appreciation of Physical Qualities (Martin Geeson)
33 - III.4 Greek Athletics (Martin Geeson)
34 - III.5 Greek Ethics - Identification of the Aesthetic and Ethical Points of View (Martin Geeson)
35 - III.6 The Greek View of Pleasure (Martin Geeson)
36 - III.7 Illustrations - Ischomachus; Socrates (Martin Geeson)
37 - III.8 The Greek View of Woman (Martin Geeson)
38 - III.9 Protests against the Common View of Woman (Martin Geeson)
39 - III.10a Friendship (1) (Martin Geeson)
40 - III.10b Friendship (2) (Martin Geeson)
41 - III.10c Friendship (3) (Martin Geeson)
42 - III.11 Summary (Martin Geeson)
43 - Chapter IV: The Greek View of Art. Section 1 - Greek Art an Expression of National Life (Martin Geeson)
44 - IV.2 Identification of the Aesthetic and Ethical Points of View (Martin Geeson)
45 - IV.3 Sculpture and Painting (Martin Geeson)
46 - IV.4 Music and the Dance (Martin Geeson)
47 - IV.5 Poetry (Martin Geeson)
48 - IV.6a Tragedy (1) (Martin Geeson)
49 - IV.6b Tragedy (2) (Martin Geeson)
50 - IV.7 Comedy (Martin Geeson)
51 - IV.8 Summary (Martin Geeson)
52 - Chapter V: Conclusion (Martin Geeson)
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