Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 books

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Essai Sur Le Cratyle: Contribution a l'Histoire de la Pensee de Platon

Essai Sur Le Cratyle: Contribution a l'Histoire de la...

Author: Victor Goldschmidt
ISBN: 9782711631421
Format: Paperback
$47.52

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An Opaque Mirror For Trajan: A Literary Analysis and Interpretation of Plutarch's 'Regum et Imperatorum Apophthegmata'

An Opaque Mirror For Trajan: A Literary Analysis and...

Author: Laurens van der Wiel
ISBN: 9789462703902
Format: Hardback
$204.41

The first full in-depth analysis and interpretation of Plutarch’s Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata in its entirety...  Read More >>

The Essential Stoic

The Essential Stoic

Author: Epictetus ,  Marcus Aurelius
ISBN: 9781250325358
Format: Paperback
$52.80

"The essential writings from the three pillars of Stoicism. Bringing together the essential writings of the three...  Read More >>

Plato's ""Letters"": The Political Challenges of the Philosophic Life

Plato's ""Letters"": The Political Challenges of the...

Author: Plato ,  Ariel Helfer
ISBN: 9781501772894
Format: Hardback
$110.75

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Strange Instances of Time and Space in the Odyssey

Strange Instances of Time and Space in the Odyssey

Author: Menelaos Christopoulos
ISBN: 9781666920390
Format: Hardback
$156.00

Menelaos Christopoulos offers a detailed, original, and thought-provoking analysis of the major thematic questions...  Read More >>

Intoxication in the Ancient Greek and Roman World

Intoxication in the Ancient Greek and Roman World

Author: Alan Sumler
ISBN: 9781666920147
Format: Hardback
$175.00

Drawing from Greek and Roman primary sources, Intoxication in the Ancient Greek and Roman World considers the psychotropic...  Read More >>

Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century

Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth...

Author: Thomas Matthew Vozar (Excellence Strategy Postdoctoral Fellow, Excellence Strategy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Hamburg)
ISBN: 9780198875949
Format: Hardback
$178.95

In this wide-ranging study in classical reception and the history of ideas, Thomas Matthew Vozar shows how Milton's...  Read More >>

Philosophical Orations, Volume II

Philosophical Orations, Volume II

Author: Maximus of Tyre ,  William H. Race
ISBN: 9780674997578
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Maximus of Tyre’s forty-one Philosophical Orations offer a Platonic elucidation of the philosophical life of virtue,...  Read More >>

Placita

Placita

Author: Aetius ,  Jaap Mansfeld
ISBN: 9780674997592
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Aëtius’ Placita (ca. AD 100) is a reconstructed compendium summarizing the principal doctrines and opinions of the...  Read More >>

Philosophical Orations, Volume I: Orations 1–21

Philosophical Orations, Volume I: Orations 1–21

Author: Maximus of Tyre ,  William H. Race
ISBN: 9780674997561
Format: Hardback
$51.95

Maximus of Tyre’s forty-one Philosophical Orations offer a Platonic elucidation of the philosophical life of virtue,...  Read More >>

Weak Elements, Weak Flesh: Reading Galatians in Conversation with Philo and Greek Medical Discourse

Weak Elements, Weak Flesh: Reading Galatians in Conversation...

Author: Ernest P. Clark ,  N.T. Wright, University of Oxford
ISBN: 9781978713956
Format: Hardback
$202.00

In Weak Elements, Weak Flesh, Ernest Clark reinvigorates an ancient interpretation overlooked since the fourth century....  Read More >>

Introduction to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Introduction to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Author: Pavlos Kontos
ISBN: 9783031419843
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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Stoicism: Stoic Philosophy and the Art of Resilient Living

Stoicism: Stoic Philosophy and the Art of Resilient...

Author: Jordan Knight
ISBN: 9781960748805
Format: Paperback
$39.57

"STOICISM Discover the Timeless Wisdom of Stoic Philosophy In the midst of life's tempests, Stoicism stands...  Read More >>

Commentary on Augustine City of God, Books 6-10

Commentary on Augustine City of God, Books 6-10

Author: Gillian Clark (Professor Emerita of Ancient History and Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9780198870081
Format: Hardback
$212.00

City of God, composed in the early fifth century, is one of the great classics of western culture. Augustine was...  Read More >>

Defending Socrates: Political Philosophy before the Tribunal of Science

Defending Socrates: Political Philosophy before the...

Author: Alex Priou
ISBN: 9780881469141
Format: Paperback
$59.40

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Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity

Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity

Author: Joseph Farrell
ISBN: 9780691221250
Format: Paperback
$62.99

A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric...  Read More >>

Everyday Stoicism Finding Balance: Wisdom on How to Lead a Good Life

Everyday Stoicism Finding Balance: Wisdom on How to...

Author: Lee Barnett
ISBN: 9798873271238
Format: Paperback
$26.37

This inspirational collection of 30 daily Stoic meditations provides ancient wisdom to help you cultivate inner...  Read More >>

Atheistic Platonism: A Manifesto

Atheistic Platonism: A Manifesto

Author: Eric Charles Steinhart
ISBN: 9783031177545
Format: Paperback
$284.60

Atheistic Platonism is an alternative to both theism and nihilistic atheism. Atheistic Platonism instead provides...  Read More >>

Revelation, Roman Rule, and Asia's Cosmology: Unraveling the Celestial Threads of Ancient Worlds

Revelation, Roman Rule, and Asia's Cosmology: Unraveling...

Author: Trina Wilburn
ISBN: 9798869033307
Format: Paperback
$89.73

"Divine Conflicts in Early Christianity: Revelation, Roman Imperial Visions, and the Province of Asia's Cosmology""...  Read More >>

Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers

Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers

Author: Kathleen Freeman
ISBN: 9781396323263
Format: Paperback
$84.45

Philosophical quotes from Orpheus, Thales, Pythagoras, Heracleitus, Zeno, and Democritus.  Read More >>

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.1–2

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.1–2

Author: Dr Stephen Menn (McGill University, Canada) ,  Stephen Menn (McGill University Canada)
ISBN: 9781350285729
Format: Paperback
$59.99

With this translation, all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s Physics have been...  Read More >>

Making Time for Greek and Roman Literature

Making Time for Greek and Roman Literature

Author: Kate Gilhuly ,  Jeffrey P. Ulrich
ISBN: 9781032472782
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This volume explores various models of representing temporality in ancient Greek and Roman literature to elucidate...  Read More >>

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1–8: General Introduction to the 12 Volumes of Translations

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1–8: General Introduction...

Author: Dr Stephen Menn (McGill University, Canada) ,  Stephen Menn (McGill University Canada)
ISBN: 9781350286665
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Supporting the twelve volumes of translation of Simplicius' great commentary on Aristotle's Physics, all published...  Read More >>

Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought: (Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical...

Author: Chiara Thumiger (Cluster of Excellence Roots, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany)
ISBN: 9781009241328
Format: Hardback
$297.56

From an archaic, unfamiliar and Greek-sounding disease described by the Hippocratics, 'phrenitis', to meningitis,...  Read More >>

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