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Author : Walter Savage Landor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pericles and Aspasia written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Savage Landor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pericles & Aspasia written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Savage Landor
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021380593
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pericles and Aspasia written by Walter Savage Landor and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pericles and Aspasia is a unique and compelling work of historical fiction that imagines the love affair between the Athenian statesman Pericles and the enigmatic courtesan Aspasia. The book is written in the form of letters exchanged between Pericles, Aspasia, and other historical figures, and vividly evokes the intellectual and cultural milieu of ancient Athens. It is a fascinating and thought-provoking exploration of love, politics, and philosophy. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Walter Savage Landor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pericles and Aspasia written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Savage Landor
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230236063
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pericles and Aspasia written by Walter Savage Landor and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... CCXXm. AXCIBIADES TO PERICLES. Potidaea has surrendered. The dead of the city are scarcely more shadows than the living, and yet how bravely they fought to the last! I should have been sorry for them a few months ago; but I have now learnt what it is to be a soldier. We must rise superior to pain, and then take another flight, farther afield, and rise superior to pity. Beside, the Potidaeans were traitors; and next, they were against us; and furthermore, they were so wicked as to eat one another rather than submit. This shows their malice. Now we have done nothing half so bad toward them; and I assure you, if others are disposed to such cruelty, I will take no part in it; for who would ever kiss me afterward? CCXXIV. PERICLES TO ALCIBIADES. The remembrance of past days that were happy, increases the gloominess of those that are not, and intercepts the benefits of those that would be. In the midst of the plague this reflection strikes me, on the intelligence I have received from Lampsacos. You likewise will be sorry, O Alcibiades! to hear that Anaxagoras is dying. Although he seldom conversed with you, and seldom commended you in private, believe me, he never omitted an occasion of pointing out to your friends any sign you had manifested of ability or virtue. He declined the character of teacher, yet few have taught so much, wherever his wisdom was accessible. Philosophers there have been indeed, at Athens and elsewhere, earnest in the discovery and in the dissemination of truth; but, excepting Thales and Pherecydes, none among them has been free from ostentation, or from desire of obtaining the absolute and exclusive possession of weak and ductile minds. Now the desire of great influence over others is praiseworthy only where great good...
Author : Madeleine M. Henry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195358651
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prisoner of History written by Madeleine M. Henry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to legend, Aspasia of Miletus was a courtesan, the teacher of Socrates, and the political adviser of her lover Pericles. Next to Sappho and Cleopatra, she is the best known woman of the ancient Mediterranean. Yet continued uncritical reception of her depiction in Attic comedy and naive acceptance of Plutarch's account of her in his Life of Pericles prevent us from understanding who she was and what her contributions to Greek thought may have been. Madeleine Henry combines traditional philological and historical methods of analysis with feminist critical perspectives, in order to trace the construction of Aspasia's biographical tradition from ancient times to the present. Through her analysis of both literary and political evidence, Henry determines the ways in which Aspasia has become an icon of the sexually attractive and politically influential female, how this construction has prevented her from taking her rightful place as a contributor to the philosophical enterprise, and how continued belief in this icon has helped sexualize all women's intellectual achievements. This is the first work to study Aspasia's biographical tradition from ancient Greece to the present day.
Author : Walter Savage Landor
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016373616
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pericles and Aspasia written by Walter Savage Landor and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Armand D’Angour
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408883902
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book Socrates in Love written by Armand D’Angour and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophers Socrates: the philosopher whose questioning gave birth to the ideas of Western thought, and whose execution marked the end of the Athenian Golden Age. Yet despite his pre-eminence among the great thinkers of history, little of his life story is known. What we know tends to begin in his middle age and end with his trial and death. Our conception of Socrates has relied upon Plato and Xenophon – men who met him when he was in his fifties and a well-known figure in war-torn Athens. There is mystery at the heart of Socrates' story: what turned the young Socrates into a philosopher? What drove him to pursue with such persistence, at the cost of social acceptance and ultimately of his life, a whole new way of thinking about the meaning of existence? In this revisionist biography, Armand D'Angour draws on neglected sources to explore the passions and motivations of young Socrates, showing how love transformed him into the philosopher he was to become. What emerges is the figure of Socrates as never previously portrayed: a heroic warrior, an athletic wrestler and dancer – and a passionate lover. Socrates in Love sheds new light on the formative journey of the philosopher, finally revealing the identity of the woman who Socrates claimed inspired him to develop ideas that have captivated thinkers for 2,500 years.
Author : Walter Savage Landor
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494898502
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pericles and Aspasia written by Walter Savage Landor and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excerpt of a review from The Monthly Review: IN his "Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen," Mr. Landor established his right to the title of the English Literary Dramatist. That work displayed no ordinary acquaintance with the great men of antiquity — no ordinary enthusiasm and fidelity in personating their characters and feelings, by turns humorous, tender, quaint, or lofty, as the subject required. Without caricature, and without effort, he seemed to place himself in the situation of the individuals represented, and to utter the very words, and suggest the very sentiments which they themselves would or must have done. It was also well observed of that work, that the author succeeded best when going far back into antiquity, and that according to the distance which the object or character contemplated stood from him, so did his views expand, and the more worthy did he become of the admirable models supposed to he imitated, Accordingly, we remember, that his dialogue between Pericles and Sophocles was one of the happiest efforts which his " Conversations" presented. It is therefore reasonable to expect, when the former of these illustrious names is introduced again, upon a wider field and along with a more numerous array of contemporary personages who are prominent in the temple of fame, that our author's power will not be less felicitous than when he first personated that great commander, statesman, and orator, especially since the celebrated Aspasia is the heroine in the series of Letters constituting the work. Indeed we have to say, that for all that is minute and graceful in scholarship, for all that is precise and noble in sentiment, and all that is descriptive in situation, these Letters surpass the Dialogues formerly published. In truth, the work is so purely classical, so highly finished, and the characters so little known by the mass of readers now-a-days, who are attracted by tinsel more than by substantial riches, because these are not allowed the time necessary for weighing and valuing them, that we fear it will not obtain the popularity which more exciting but much more flimsy productions secure. If it may require of the reader, as Mr. Landor himself suggests, the "learning by heart two first 'Years' of Thucydides," ere he can relish the volumes before us, something not much different from a sealed book is presented to nineteen-twentieths of the reading community. We must, however, select a few gems, without any thing like lengthened comment or discussion; the imaginary nature of the performance, and the subjects treated of, affording small scope for anything more than a taste for the author's beauties, and an appreciation of the intellectual and critical powers displayed. As already intimated, there is a diversity of characters and topics introduced in these Letters. Besides Pericles, the eloquent, the venerable, but not the spotless, and Aspasia, the lively, but passionate and erring, her early companion Cleone figures prominently in the correspondence; the gods, the poets and philosophers of Greece, the arts, and the manners of the age, being, with other and kindred themes, besides the love of the hero and heroine, constantly blended in learned and most terse as well as polished style. Our first extract shall be from a letter of the sensible and affectionate Cleone to the lovely Aspasia. Though her numerous criticisms on the poets are learned and profound, she is not above directing her taste to ornaments of dress—as witness the following artist-like particularity….
Author : Caroline Frances Cornwallis
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Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pericles written by Caroline Frances Cornwallis and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
