上游充通大￥ SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY Ancient Greek Civilization Prof.:Wu Shiyu Email:shiyuw@sjtu.edu.cn 漏 http://sla.sjtu.edu.cn/bbs SHANG 1日gG
Ancient Greek Civilization Prof.: Wu Shiyu Email: shiyuw@sjtu.edu.cn http://sla.sjtu.edu.cn/bbs
上游充通大 Three Questions SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY Why are we here? ©Vhat is it about? How are we going to study it?
Three Questions Why are we here? What is it about? How are we going to study it?
上降充通大学 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY "In all history,nothing is so surprising or so difficult to account for as the sudden rise of civilization in Greece.” ---Bertrand Russell
“In all history, nothing is so surprising or so difficult to account for as the sudden rise of civilization in Greece.” ---Bertrand Russell
上游充通大 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY "The Greeks,however,combined a unique sense of mankind's high place in the natural order and the possibilities it provided with a painful understanding of its limitations.This is the tragic vision of the human condition that characterized classical Greek civilization.To cope with it, they urged human beings to restrain their overarching ambitions. ----Donald Kagan
“The Greeks, however, combined a unique sense of mankind’s high place in the natural order and the possibilities it provided with a painful understanding of its limitations. This is the tragic vision of the human condition that characterized classical Greek civilization. To cope with it, they urged human beings to restrain their overarching ambitions.” ----Donald Kagan
上游充通大 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY "As man is the best of the animals when perfected. so he is the worst when separated from law and justice.For injustice is most dangerous when it is armed and man armed by nature with good sense and virtue may use them for entirely opposite ends. Therefore,when he is without virtue,man is the most unscrupulous and savage of the animals." ---Aristotle
“As man is the best of the animals when perfected, so he is the worst when separated from law and justice. For injustice is most dangerous when it is armed and man armed by nature with good sense and virtue may use them for entirely opposite ends. Therefore, when he is without virtue, man is the most unscrupulous and savage of the animals.” ---Aristotle