Werner Jaeger (Books)

Werner Jaeger Books

July 30, 1888 – October 19, 1961

Werner Jaeger was a seminal classical philologist whose work delved deeply into the intellectual history of ancient Greece. His monumental work, "Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture," meticulously traced the evolution of education and cultural ideals from early practices to philosophical reflections. Jaeger sought to reintroduce and revive Hellenic values, hoping to inspire a decadent early 20th-century Europe. His scholarship, encompassing a vast sweep from Homer to the Church Fathers, aimed to bridge ancient wisdom with contemporary concerns.

The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers: The Gifford Lectures, 1936

268 pages
10 hours of reading

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The new and revolutionizing ideas which the early Greek thinkers developed about the nature of the universe had a direct impact upon their conception of what they called, in a new sense, 'God' or 'the Divine.' The history of the philosophical theology of the Greeks is thus the history of their rational approach to the nature of reality itself in its successive phases. The late Professor Jaeger's classic book traces this development from the first intimations in Hesiod of the theology that was to come, through the heroic age of Greek cosmological thought, down to the time of the Sophists of the fifth century B.C.