Jaeger Werner. Paideia the Ideals of Greek Culture: Volume 2. In Search of the Divine Centre

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1947. — xv+446 p.Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, and philosophy is the basis for Jaeger's evaluation of Hellenic culture.
Volume I describes the foundation, growth, and crisis of Greek culture during the archaic and classical epochs, ending with the collapse of the Athenian empire. The second and third volumes of the work deal with the intellectual history of ancient Greece in the Age of Plato, the 4th century B.C.--the age in which Greece lost everything that is valued in this world--state, power, liberty--but still clung to the concept of paideia. As its last great poet, Menander summarized the primary role of this ideal in Greek culture when he said: "The possession which no one can take away from man is paideia."The Fourth Century
The Memory of Socrates
The Socratic Problem
Socrates the Teacher
Plato and Posterity
Plato''s Smaller Socratic Dialogues: The Problem of Arete
Protagoras: Sophistic or Socratic Paideia?
Gorgias: The Educator as Statesman
Meno: The New Knowledge
Symposium: ErosReform of the Old Paideia
Criticism of 'Musical' Education
Criticism of Athletics and Medicine
The Position of Education in the Perfectly Just State
The Education of Women and Children
Breeding and Education of the Elite
Military Training and Military Law
The Republic: True Home of the Philosopher
The Paideia of the Rulers: The Divine Model
The Cave - An Image of Paideia
Paideia as Conversion
Mathematics as Propaideia
Education in Dialectic
The State within Us
The Educational Value of Poetry
Paideia and Eschatology
The Memory of Socrates
Platos Smaller Socratic Dialogues
Protagoras
Gorgias
Meno
The Symposium
The Republic