Treats paideia, the shaping of Greek character, as the basis for study of Hellenism to explain the interaction between the historical process by which Greek character was formed and the intellectual process by which they constructed their ideal of human personality.



Werner Jaeger's highly-acclaimed work treats paideia, the shaping of Greek character, as the basis for study of Hellenism as a whole, to explain the interaction between the historical process by which Greek character was formed and the intellectual process by which they constructed their ideal of the human personality.