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[ SOLD OUT ] DOVER, K.J., La morale popolare greca all'epoca di Platone e di Aristotele. Traduzione italiana di L. Rossetti. Introduzione di Luciano Canfora. Paideia, Brescia, 1983. 558p. Sewn. Series: Antichità classica e christiana, 23. (Rare). 'It is by any standards an important contribution to our thinking about ancient Greek morality - and our own. Professor Dover's subject is 'Greek popular morality', not, that is, Greek moral philosophy, nor Greek values, in any wider sense. He defines 'popular morality' at the outset of his first chapter: 'It often happens that if I try to do as I wish I frustrate what someone else wishes. By the 'morality' of a culture I mean the principles, criteria and values which underlie its responses to this familiar experience. (...) Throughout the book, Professor Dover brings out the continuity of moral attitudes between speakers in the Athenian assembly and law-courts and the comic poets right through the period with which he is concerned (...), without ever losing sight of the range and variety of attitudes which can be and are expressed in response to the conflicting pressures of moral argument and interest.' (JOHN GOULD in The Classical Review (New Series), 1978, pp.285-86). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. (Antiquarian) (approx. delivery time: undeliverable)