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Moral Values in the Ancient World
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This book studies the pilgrimage of the Ancient World in its search for moral truth. After a brief examination of the values which dominated Homeric society and the subsequent aristocracies, the central portion of the book is an account and analysis of the moral ideas which illuminated the Greek, Roman and Hebrew worlds during the classical period. The volume discusses the cardinal virtues, the place of friendship, Plato's love, philanthropia and the moral insights of the Jewish prophets and subsequently examines Christian love.
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Index
Achilles, 14; and Patroclus, 53
Actium, 174, 180
Acusilaus, 82, 85
Ada, 124
Adam, J., 140
Addison, J., 169
Adcock, F. E., 180
Adikos, 42
Admetus, 58
Aebutius Liberalis, 201
Aegina, 80, 146
Aegisthus, 20
Aelian, 103-4, 106
Aeneas in Vergil, 156, 169-71, 178; and Altar of Peace, 182
Aequi, 129
Aequitas, 48
Aeschines, and philanthropia, 107; and Socrates, 136
Aeschylus, on themis, 16; on cardinal virtues, 25; on moderation, 34; on Eros, 83; and pathos, 93; and philanthropia, 103, 111
Aesop, 106
Aetna, 171
Agamemnon, 11, 14, 17, 20
Agape, potent factor, 9; comprehensive, 10; and philanthropia, 102, 106, 111; and chesed, 222, and 'ahabah, 225; ch. XII passim.
Agapan, 110
Agapetus, 113
Agathe Tyche, 60
Agathon, 86-7
Agathos, 12
To agathon, 27
Agesilaus and philanthropia, 104; and Diogenes, 146
Agnosticism in sophistic movement, 30, 139
Agrippa, 180, 202
Agrippina, 188-9
'Ahabah, 223-5
Aidos, 12-15
Aion, 12
Air, in Diogenes, 55; spirit of, 182
Aisa, 15-16
Ajax, in Homer, 14; in Sophocles, 58
à Kempis, Thomas, 241
Alcestis, 85
Alcibiades, 84
Alexander, influence on universalism, 68, 108; and pathos, 94; and philanthropia, 104, 109; and homonoia, 123-4; pupil of Aristotle, 94, 124, 134; and Diogenes, 154
Alexandria, 208
Alexandrianism, 168
Alexandrian Jews, 230
Alexis, 93
Altruism in friendship, 64, 74
Ambrose, S., 24; on virtues, 49-50
Ambrosia, 93
American constitution, 40
Amicitia, 73-4
Amos, 215, 219
Amumon, 20
Anacharsis, 54 ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Original Title
- Original Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- I THE HOMERIC AGE
- II THE VALUES OF EARLY GREEK SOCIETY
- III THE CARDINAL VIRTUES
- IV FRIENDSHIP
- V EROS
- VI PHILANTHROPIA
- VII HOMONOIA
- VIII THE TRIUMPH OF AUTARCY
- IX ROMANA VIRTUS
- X THE VIRTUES OF A ROMAN EMPEROR
- XI THE CONTRIBUTION OF JUDAISM
- XII AGAPE
- INDEX