The moral power of the word: Ethical literature in Antiquity
According to an old legend, during the Messenian Wars in Laconia in the 8th and 7th centuries BC, the Athenians sent the poet Tyrtaeus to the Spartans who were close to being defeated; he aroused in them the fighting spirit and renewed Spartan virtues. Philosophers in antiquity believed in the psych...
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| Language: | English |
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2020-12-01
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| Series: | Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe) |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2020-0012 |