Books and Ideas. The Library of Plato and the Academy
Published on 1. January 2013
Book
Leather / fine binding
300 pages
978-90-6194-631-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the papyrus books collected by Plato himself, a habit which began when he was still 'studying' under Socrates and continued throughout his years of teaching in the Academy. It deals extensively with the works of the Ionian and Eleatic Natural Philosophers, as well as of the Pyhagoreans, which informed the composition of Plato's Dialogues. Furthermore, through this process the fabric of Sophistic literature composed at Athens is unfolded and the pioneers who introduced the study of Mathematics in the Academy are discussed in brief. Finally, a large chapter in the book deals with the architecture of the Academy, including topographical surveys and scale plans which reveal interesting facts about the ideas that went into its design, and the use of its facilities.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-6194-631-1 (9789061946311)
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Person
Konstantinos Staikos is an Architect and a Book Historian. He has designed libraries for historical foundations, such as of the Monastery of St John the Theologian in Patmos, which dates from the 12th century. He is the author of the Great Libraries and the six volumes series of the History of the Library in Western Civilization.