Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 books

17026 books were found.

Reading Roman Declamation: Seneca the Elder

Reading Roman Declamation: Seneca the Elder

Author: Martin T Dinter (King's College London) ,  Professor of Latin Literature Charles Guérin (Sorbonne Universite Paris)
ISBN: 9780191808722
Format: Undefined
$303.60

Situated at the crossroads of rhetoric and fiction, the genre of declamatio offers its practitioners the freedom...  Read More >>

Metalepsis: Ancient Texts, New Perspectives

Metalepsis: Ancient Texts, New Perspectives

Author: Sebastian Matzner (King's College London) ,  Gail Trimble (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780191881930
Format: Undefined
$277.20

'Metalepsis' is a term from classical rhetoric, but in the twentieth century, it was re-framed more broadly as a...  Read More >>

The Republic of Plato: Volume 1, Books I-V

The Republic of Plato: Volume 1, Books I-V

Author: James Adam ,  Plato
ISBN: 9798683801342
Format: Paperback
$59.58

In this influential two-volume edition, first published in 1902, the Scottish classicist James Adam examines the...  Read More >>

Enchiridion: A Manual for the Stoic Life

Enchiridion: A Manual for the Stoic Life

Author: Epictetus
ISBN: 9781789432053
Format: Paperback
$13.17

 Read More >>

Enchiridion: A Manual for the Stoic Life

Enchiridion: A Manual for the Stoic Life

Author: Epictetus
ISBN: 9781789432060
Format: Hardback
$23.93

 Read More >>

The Parmenides of Plato: With introductroduction, analysis, and notes

The Parmenides of Plato: With introductroduction, analysis,...

Author: Plato ,  Maguire Thomas
ISBN: 9785519703024
Format: Hardback
$77.60

This book, The Parmenides of Plato With introductroduction, analysis, and notes , by Plato, Maguire Thomas, is...  Read More >>

Selected Discourses of Epictetus, and the Enchiridion

Selected Discourses of Epictetus, and the Enchiridion...

Author: Epictetus
ISBN: 9781789431193
Format: Paperback
$18.45

Epictetus' ""Discourses"" have, since antiquity, been among the most influential Stoic texts. His ideas are surprisingly...  Read More >>

A Commentary on Cicero, De Divinatione II

A Commentary on Cicero, De Divinatione II

Author: Andrew R. Dyck
ISBN: 9780472054572
Format: Paperback
$79.07

An attractive choice for the study of Latin texts in classrooms by advanced undergraduate and graduate students...  Read More >>

Selected Discourses of Epictetus, and the Enchiridion

Selected Discourses of Epictetus, and the Enchiridion...

Author: Epictetus
ISBN: 9781789432046
Format: Hardback
$42.21

Epictetus' ""Discourses"" have, since antiquity, been among the most influential Stoic texts. His ideas are surprisingly...  Read More >>

A Commentary on Cicero, De Divinatione II

A Commentary on Cicero, De Divinatione II

Author: Andrew R. Dyck
ISBN: 9780472074570
Format: Hardback
$211.20

An attractive choice for the study of Latin texts in classrooms by advanced undergraduate and graduate students...  Read More >>

Courage and Cowardice in Ancient Greece: From Homer to Aristotle

Courage and Cowardice in Ancient Greece: From Homer...

Author: Andrei G. Zavaliy
ISBN: 9783030476052
Format: Hardback
$258.72

The book offers the first comprehensive account of the debate on true courage as it was raging in ancient Greece,...  Read More >>

Two Souls and a Body: What Every Educated Person Knew to be True and How the Educated Christian Developed Christianity in Hellenistic Times, Creating the Ideas of Free Will and Modern Psychology

Two Souls and a Body: What Every Educated Person Knew...

Author: David Elliott
ISBN: 9781630507008
Format: Paperback
$69.73

"Why do Christians believe what they believe? The early Christians contested their theology for 300 hundred years...  Read More >>

On the Nature of Things

On the Nature of Things

Author: Lucretius ,  William Ellery Leonard
ISBN: 9791029909573
Format: Hardback
$58.05

This great poem stands with Virgil's Aeneid as one of the vital and enduring achievements of Latin literature. Lost...  Read More >>

The Plotinus Reader

The Plotinus Reader

Author: Plotinus ,  Lloyd P. Gerson
ISBN: 9781624668944
Format: Paperback
$29.95

""This title contains revised translations of Plotinus's opus. In addition to the translations, included is an appendix...  Read More >>

The Plotinus Reader

The Plotinus Reader

Author: Plotinus ,  Lloyd P. Gerson
ISBN: 9781624668951
Format: Hardback
$144.87

""This title contains revised translations of Plotinus's opus. In addition to the translations, included is an appendix...  Read More >>

Cicero De officiis. Book 3

Cicero De officiis. Book 3

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero ,  Hubert A Holden
ISBN: 9785519700832
Format: Hardback
$77.60

Edited by Hubert Ashton Holden This book, Cicero De officiis. Book 3 , by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Hubert A. Holden,...  Read More >>

Approaches to Lucretius: Traditions and Innovations in Reading the De Rerum Natura

Approaches to Lucretius: Traditions and Innovations...

Author: Donncha O'Rourke (University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781108421966
Format: Hardback
$206.97

Re-examines a range of critical approaches to which this influential poem has given rise and which in turn have...  Read More >>

Sokrates in der Höhle: Aspekte praktischer Ethik im Platonismus der Kaiserzeit

Sokrates in der Höhle: Aspekte praktischer Ethik im...

Author: Michael Erler
ISBN: 9783161590689
Format: Paperback
$72.45

 Read More >>

Ion: A socratic dialogue by Plato

Ion: A socratic dialogue by Plato

Author: Plato
ISBN: 9782491251277
Format: Paperback
$38.79

In Plato's Ion Socrates discusses with the titular character, a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer,...  Read More >>

Janaka and Ashtavakra: A Journey Beyond

Janaka and Ashtavakra: A Journey Beyond

Author: Ashraf Karayath
ISBN: 9789948347965
Format: Paperback
$34.19

The story of a sage Ashtavakra and his disciple King Janaka is one of the most gripping yet unknown episodes from...  Read More >>

Aristotle; The ""art"" of rhetoric

Aristotle; The ""art"" of rhetoric

Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9789354038570
Format: Paperback
$93.72

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms...  Read More >>

Meditations

Meditations

Author: Marcus Aurelius
ISBN: 9789354038174
Format: Paperback
$63.20

The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (AD 121-180) embodied in his person that ideal figure of antiquity,...  Read More >>

Latest Reading Guide

MRG2025CC

 

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List