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03932aam a22004694i 4500 001 38E02358662A11E88B2F7B1897128E48 003 SILO 005 20191121025255 008 180316t20182018nyua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017045163 020 $a 9780385541886 020 $a 0385541880 035 $a (OCoLC)995089075 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d LG# $d QQ3 $d TXWBR $d FM0 $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a CB245 $b .R6625 2018 082 00 $a 909/.09821 $2 23 100 1 $a Rossellini, Ingrid, $e author. 245 10 $a Know Thyself : $b Western identity from classical Greece to the Renaissance / $c by Ingrid Rossellini. 246 30 $a Western identity from classical Greece to the Renaissance 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Doubleday, $c [2018] 300 $a xxii, 469 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 505 0 $a Part one: Ancient Greece -- The Birth of the polis -- Sparta and Athens -- Reason, the irrational and the danger of hubris -- Hesiod and the cosmic origin of the world -- The heroic ideal -- Greek art : reason versus passion -- From mythology to philosophy -- Pythagoras : the divine reason and the immortal soul -- The myth of the rational west versus the irrational east -- Splendor and contradiction of the classical age -- The achievements of theatre, rhetoric and philosophy -- From Plato to Aristotle : the empowering wisdom of philosophy -- The Hellenistic era -- Part two: Ancient Rome -- The Roman Republic : history and myth -- Augustus and the empire : the theatre of politics and power -- Augustus's successors -- The decline of the empire and the rise of Christianity -- Augustine's tale of two cities -- Part three: The early Middle Ages -- The triumph of Christianity and the demise of the rational mind -- The symbolic discourse of art -- The new vocabulary of faith and spirituality -- Latin West versus Greek East -- The monastic experience -- From the iconoclastic revolt to the splendor of Byzantine art -- Charlemagne and feudalism -- Part four: the later Middle Ages -- Church authority versus state authority : a difficult balance of power -- Cities and universities : the dawn of a new cultural era -- A new art for a new sensibility -- The crusades -- Wealth and power versus poverty and humility : the two faces of Christianity -- The rehabilitation of man within the ordered universe of God -- The gradual secularization of culture -- Dante's summa : The Divine Comedy -- Part five: Humanism and the Renaissance -- The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries : the historical context -- The Italian city-states -- Petrarch's literary humanism -- Political humanism -- Florence : the city of splendor -- Lorenzo the Magnificent and his court -- The gathering clouds of disenchantment and cynicism -- The Roman Renaissance : glory and ambiguity -- The Protestant Reformation and the sack of Rome -- The last judgment. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-448) and index. 520 $a Introduces the origins of self-understanding in the cultures of Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, and explains how Western civilization frames the issues of self and society. 650 0 $a Civilization, Western $x History. 650 0 $a Religion and civilization $x History. 650 0 $a Philosophy and civilization $x History. 650 0 $a Identity (Philosophical concept) 941 $a 9 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710041419.0 952 $l BRPD251 $d 20240119014522.0 952 $l ETPD745 $d 20231025011905.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722055921.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211024007.0 952 $l PMAX975 $d 20191122025355.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190530011914.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006115122.0 952 $l CYPF706 $d 20180728010744.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=38E02358662A11E88B2F7B1897128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search