 | John Frederic Dobson - 1919 - 370 lapas
...shows us the ideals which were aimed at in the education of a prince. He tells how he trained the young Achilles to be a ' speaker of words and a doer of deeds '; 1 and Achilles, as we know him, well justified this training. The leading characters in the Homeric... | |
 | Werner Jaeger - 1986 - 544 lapas
...was not abandoned; but the citizen of the polis aimed above all at the ideal which Phoenix had taught Achilles: to be a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.** Certainly the leading men in each state were bound to move towards that ideal, and the ordinary citizens... | |
 | Kevin Crotty - 1994 - 268 lapas
...(9.438-41). Peleus therefore sent Phoenix along with his son to Troy and charged him with teaching Achilles to be a "speaker of words and a doer of deeds" (9.443). It is immediately apparent that these different recollections of Peleus' last words to Achilles... | |
 | Yun Lee Too - 2008 - 266 lapas
...subsequent success in active life. Homer's Phoinix is perhaps the model teacher, instructing the hero Achilles to be a 'speaker of words and a doer of deeds', /j.v9a>v re prjrrjp' e'^evai TrpriKTrjpd re epywv (II. 9.443). Timotheus has been a man of action,... | |
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speaker of words and a doer of deeds '; 1 and Achilles, as we know him, well justified this training. 