Parthenon and Liberal Education

Geoff Lehman is on the faculty of Art History at Bard College Berlin. Michael Weinman is Professor of Philosophy at Bard College Berlin and the author of Language, Time, and Identity in Woolf's The Waves: The Subject in Empire's Shadow and Pleasure in Aristotle's Ethics.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Thinking the Parthenon and Liberal Arts Education TogetherPart I. Plato on Dialectic and the Problem-Based Study of Mathematics1. Dialectic and the Mathematical Arts in Republic (9.587b–588a): Philolaus’s Scale and the Final Bout between the Just and Unjust Souls2. Dialectic and the Mathematical Arts in Timaeus (35b–36c): Philolaus’s Scale in the Construction of the World-Soul3. Platonic Dialectic, Pythagorean Harmonics, and Liberal Arts EducationPart II. Harmonia and Symmetria of the Parthenon4. The Parthenon and the Musical Scale5. The Corner Problem 6. Refinements and the Question of DialecticAfterword Appendix APythagorean Musical RatiosAppendix BPrincipal Measurements of the ParthenonAppendix CElements of the Doric OrderAppendix DGround Plan of the ParthenonAppendix EGlossary of Technical TermsNotes Works Cited Index

"This synthesis of the architecture of the Parthenon, Plato, and Greek mathematical thought in the fifth century BC is one of the most comprehensive available in English." — Vassilis Petrakis, External Research Collaborator, National Hellenic Research Foundation"This book adds substantially to the field of studies on ancient Greek architecture, as viewed through the lens of Greek philosophy and education. It contains chapters that are intellectually the most exciting and innovative that I have read on the Parthenon in a long time." — Robert Hannah, author of Time in Antiquity