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Know Thyself audiobook
- By: Ingrid Rossellini
- Narrator: January LaVoy
- Category: Civilization, History
- Length: 14 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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Know Thyself Audiobook Summary
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018
A lively and timely introduction to the roots of self-understanding–who we are and how we should act–in the cultures of ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Middle Ages and the Renaissance
“Know thyself”–this fundamental imperative appeared for the first time in ancient Greece, specifically in Delphi, the temple of the god Apollo, who represented the enlightened power of reason. For the Greeks, self-knowledge and identity were the basics of their civilization and their sources were to be found in where one was born and into which social group. These determined who you were and what your duties were. In this book the independent scholar Ingrid Rossellini surveys the major ideas that, from Greek and Roman antiquity through the Christian medieval era up to the dawn of modernity in the Renaissance, have guided the Western project of self-knowledge. Addressing the curious lay reader with an interdisciplinary approach that includes numerous references to the visual arts, Know Thyself will reintroduce readers to the most profound and enduring ways our civilization has framed the issues of self and society, in the process helping us rediscover the very building blocks of our personality.
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Know Thyself Full Details
| Narrator | January LaVoy |
| Length | 14 hours 43 minutes |
| Author | Ingrid Rossellini |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 03, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780525531869 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Know Thyself is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: ancient greece, roman empire, middle ages, renaissance, delphi, philosophy, apollo, antiquity, visual arts, personality, identity, wisdom, human nature, plato, aristotle, leonardo da vinci, early christianity, saint augustine, stoicism, epicurius, saint paul, dante, athens, sparta, roman republic, Classical Greece, medieval, Christian, philosophy books, self improvement books, ancient rome, history, history books, art history, world history, christian books, history of christianity, christian ethics, western philosophy, art, art books, History, Civilization, Art, History, General, Philosophy, General The BISAC Subject Code is Civilization, History
Additional info
The publisher of the Know Thyself is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780525531869.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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