文档介绍：A Period of Opposition to Sophrosyne in Greek Thought
Author(s): Helen F. North
Source: Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 78 (1947),
pp. 1-17
Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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TRANSACTIONS
OF THE
AMERICANPHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
1947
I.-A Period of Opposition to S6phrosyne in Greek Thought
HELEN F. NORTH
ROSARY COLLEGE
This paper examines the changing attitude towards s6phrosyne revealed by
Greek literature of the late fifth and early fourth centuries . During the Pelo-
ponnesian War and thereafter, this virtue, which had hitherto met only praise,
was subjected to searching analysis and to varying degrees of hostility. Three
principal types of criticism are distinguished, and the evidence for each is studied.
The paper also suggests certain points of contact between Plato's treatm