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100 1  Rossellini, Ingrid,|eauthor. 
245 10 Know thyself :|bWestern identity from classical Greece to 
       the Renaissance /|cby Ingrid Rossellini. 
250    First edition 
264  1 New York :|bDoubleday,|c[2018] 
300    xxii, 469 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-448) and 
       index. 
505 0  The Birth of the polis  -- Sparta and Athens -- Reason, 
       the irrational and the danger of hubris -- Hesiod and the 
       cosmic origin of the world -- The heroic ideal -- Greek 
       art : reason versus passion -- From mythology to 
       philosophy -- Pythagoras : the divine reason and the 
       immortal soul -- The myth of the rational west versus the 
       irrational east -- Splendor and contradiction of the 
       classical age -- The achievements of theatre, rhetoric and
       philosophy -- From Plato to Aristotle : the empowering 
       wisdom of philosophy -- The Hellenistic era -- The Roman 
       Republic : history and myth -- Augustus and the empire : 
       the theatre of politics and power -- Augustus's successors
       -- The decline of the empire and the rise of Christianity 
       -- Augustine's tale of two cities -- The triumph of 
       Christianity and the demise of the rational mind -- The 
       symbolic discourse of art -- The new vocabulary of faith 
       and spirituality -- Latin West versus Greek East -- The 
       monastic experience -- From the iconoclastic revolt to the
       splendor of Byzantine art -- Charlemagne and feudalism -- 
       Church authority versus state authority : the balance of 
       power -- Cities and universities : the dawn of a new 
       cultural era -- A new art for a new sensibility -- The 
       crusades -- Wealth and power versus poverty and humility :
       the two faces of Christianity -- The rehabilitation of man
       within the ordered universe of God -- The gradual 
       secularization of culture -- Dante's summa : The Divine 
       Comedy -- The fourteenth and fifteenth century : the 
       historical context -- The Italian city-states -- 
       Petrarch's literary humanism  -- Political humanism -- 
       Florence : the city of splendor -- Lorenzo the Magnificent
       and his court -- The gathering clouds of disenchantment 
       and cynicism -- The Roman Renaissance : glory and 
       ambiguity --  Plan of Sforzinda -- The Protestant 
       Reformation and the sack of Rome -- The last judgment. 
650  0 Civilization, Western|xHistory. 
650  0 Religion and civilization|xHistory. 
650  0 Philosophy and civilization|xHistory. 
650  0 Identity (Philosophical concept)