Gilbert Highet Books
Gilbert Highet was a critic and classical scholar renowned for his teaching of the humanities in the UK and USA. His work deeply explored classical culture and its relevance to the modern world. Highet possessed a unique ability to convey complex subjects with clarity and engaging enthusiasm to a broad audience.
ManS Unconquerable Mind
- 148 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Explores the power, capabilities, and limitations of the human mind from ancient times.
Paideia - 1: The Ideals of Greek Culture
The Mind of Athens (Archaic Greece)
- 544 pages
- 20 hours of reading
The project of Greek culture in its heroic period was the creation of the perfect state-a goal that seemed within reach in the Athens of the fifth century B.C. But with the fall of Athens that prospect evaporated, and the result, which Werner Jaeger describes in this second volume of his magisterial three-volume study of Hellenism, was the spiritualizing of Greek culture-'the search for the divine centre.' Jaeger traces the growth of this new power in human culture from its early beginnings in the teachings of Socrates, to its natural climax in Plato's Republic.