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AudioThe Greek View of Life
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LibriVox recording of The Greek View of Life, by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson. Read by Martin Geeson. “With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the truth of all existence.” This elegantly-written work provides a splendid introduction to the Greeks of the classic period: how they thought, wrote, and organised their lives and loves. Although it dates from the 1890s, there is very little about it that has dated. To its author’s credit, the subject of “Greek love” is dealt with in a sane and factual context - despite the judicial assassination of Oscar Wilde going on in the background. A Cambridge don much admired by his students (including E. M. Forster), Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson belonged to the Apostles, a secret society with a strong ethic of male friendship. Alfred Tennyson and his beloved Arthur Hallam were early members. Dickinson is chiefly remembered as a historian and pacifist who played a significant part in the founding of the League of Nations. Inevitably, given his interests and intellectual background, he became a close associate of the Bloomsbury Group. The Greek View of Life…
Directors & creators
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
Subjects
librivox; audiobook; literature; nonfiction; Classical Civilisation; Hellenism; Cambridge Apostles; Bloomsbury Group; Greek Civilization
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