Piety had, for Athenians, a broad meaning. It included not just respect for the gods, but also for the dead and ancestors. The impious individual was seen as a contaminant who, if not controlled or punished, might bring upon the city the wrath of the gods--Athena, Zeus, or Apollo--in the form of plague or sterility. The ritualistic religion of Athens included no scripture, church, or priesthood. Rather, it required--in addition to belief in the gods-- observance of rites, prayers, and the offering of sacrifices. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers Book II, Chapter 5, Section 19". Archived from the original on 24 January 2022 . Retrieved 24 January 2022. He also influenced Islamic thought during the Middle Ages, as well as Christian theology. Portrait of Aristotle The bust was dressed on the set of Gladiator as it bore a striking resemblance to Richard Harris playing Marcus Aurelius.

The Treasures of the British Museum: Art and Man (Exhibition Catalogue, Tokyo, 1990), 125, no. 123; Gisela Richter, The Portraits of the Greeks, vol. I (London: Phaidon Press, 1965), 113 no. 13, figs. 513, 516 Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. Philip V was succeeded by his eldest son Perseus, who ruled as the last king of Macedon. Bust of Philip V of MacedonA. M. Nielsen, ‘Det Graeske Ansigt’, in A.M. Nielsen (ed.), Ansigter (En Temabog, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1989), 28, fig. 26; Wolfsdorf 2013, p.34: Others include Charmides, Crito, Euthydemus, Euthyphro, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Laches, Lysis, Protagoras. Benson 2011, p.179, also adds parts of Meno. Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases. Townley's description; ‘A head bearing a helmet, and placed upon a Terminus, with the name of Pericles, thus inscribed upon it, ПΕΡΙΚΛΕΣ. The portrait of this great warrior and legislator was not known in these days, until this Terminus, and another similar to it , but of a more modern style of sculpture, were discovered 1780 at the pianella [sic, for Pianura] di Cassio before mentioned’ (TY 12/3, street drawing room 20). The inscription actually reads ΠΕΡΙΚΛΗΣ.

Kahn, Charles H. (1998). Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form. Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511585579. ISBN 978-0-521-64830-1. Although Aristotle later classified the dialogue as a work of fiction, it remains today as a useful historical source about the great philosopher. In other words, he sought the absolute and rejected the relative; he studied the essence of morality and disregarded what he saw as more superficial moral issues. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. The National Roman Museum and houses Rome’s ancient art collection consisting of sculpture, painting, mosaic work, and goldsmith’s craft from the Republican Age to the Late Antiquity.Aristotle’s works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, and medieval scholars studied them. E. Voutiras, Studien zu Interpretation und Stil griechischer Porträts des 5. und frühen 4. JHS (Bonn, 1980), 99; G. M. A. Richter, The Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks (New Haven, 1929), 175-6, fig. 624 (19302), 233-5, fig. 624;