Tecolotl’s Reviews > Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture - Volume I: Archaic Greece - The Mind of Athens > Status Update

"The Greek trinity of poet, statesman, and sage (ποιητής, πολιτικός, σοφός) embodied the nation's highest ideal of leadership. In that atmosphere of spiritual liberty, bound by deep knowledge (as if by a divine law) to the service of the community, the Greek creative genius conceived and attained that lofty educational ideal. . ."