Jaeger, Werner Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture: Volume I. Archaic Greece: The Mind of Athens (0195004256)
Werner Jaeger's highly-acclaimed work treats paideia, the shaping of Greek character, as the basis for study of Hellenism as a whole, to explain the interaction between the historical process by which Greek character was formed and the intellectual process by which they constructed their ideal of the human personality.