Ancient History, Classical Art And Civilization – Bücher, Blu-ray Discs, CDs und mehr, Seite 6

Sebastian Purcell
The Outward Path

The Aztecs were a philosophical people who held that the top goal in human life is not happiness but the pursuit of what they called 'neltiliztli': a life in truth. Our world, they held, is a "slippe…

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José María Pérez Fernández
Translation and the Truth of History

This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Tho…

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Catherine Nixey
Heretic

"A brilliant book...illuminates a forgotten world." ---The Times, Best of the Year"Heretic tells a moreish intellectual story and shakes up your understanding of Western history. At the sam…

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José María Pérez Fernández
Translation and the Truth of History

This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Tho…

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Brenda Segone
Occidentalism in Egypt

"From the odalisques to the pashas, to the orange sellers, there is no shortage of depictions of Arabs from the western world. But what about Europeans? How are they perceived and understood in the A…

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Prudentius, Plutarch
How to Have Willpower

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

Lively new translations of two classical works that offer wise advice about how to resist temptationHow to Have Willpower brings together two profound ancient meditations on how to overcome pressures that…

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Confucius,
The Analects

The Analects of Confucius has stood as the bedrock of Chinese culture for over 2,500 years, shaping the trajectory of human history in ways unmatched by nearly any other secular philosophy. But until now,…

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Egidijus Mardosas
Revolutionary Aristotelianism and Ideology

How does ideology function and, more importantly, how can we resist ideological subjugation?Egidijus Mardosas answers these questions by applying the philosophical resources of Revolutionary Aristoteliani…

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Plato,
How to Speak Freely

**A vivid and timely new translation of Plato's Apology,in which Socrates defends his pursuit of truth, no matter the consequencesFree speech is back at the center of political and cultural debate, amid i…

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Platon und die Seele / Plato and the Soul

Although Plato is considered by many to be the "founder" of psychology, it is controversial to what extent Plato's various statements on the soul can be combined to form an actual psychological …

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Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta
The Roman Arch

The freestanding arch is one of Roman architecture's most innovative and distinctive structures. Despite its ubiquity throughout the Roman Empire, little attention has been paid to the first monuments con…

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Samar Abdel-Rahman
Egyptian Male Film Stars in the Nasser Era

An exploration of male stardom in Egyptian cinema produced during the rule of Gamal Abdel NasserFollowing the Free Officers' coup of July 1952, the new regime under Gamal Abdel Nasser sought to construct …

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Erin Vearncombe, Brandon Scott, Hal Taussig, The Westar Institute
After Jesus Before Christianity

From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of …

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Lizzie Wade
Apocalypse

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book of May 2025 • APublishers Weekly Most Anticipated History Book of the Year • A The Millions Most Anticipated Spring Book of the YearA…

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Peter Meineck
Tony Stark, Odysseus, and the Myths Behind Marvel

"By connecting our modern heroes to the archetypes of ancient myth, Peter Meineck's marvelous book bestows thrilling contemporary resonance upon those bygone legends." ---Christopher Markus, cos…

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Sophia Vasalou
Al-Ghazālī And the Ideal of Godlikeness

What might it mean to take God as a model for virtue? Al-Ghazl and the Ideal of Godlikeness investigates how Muslim thinkers developed the idea of imitating God across diverse cultural channels and how al…

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Walter Sennhauser
Plato und die Mathematik - Die Mathematik und Plato

Der Schweizer Theologe und Mathematiker Walter Sennhauser beschreibt im ersten Teil des Buches detailliert die Rolle der Mathematik in Platos Philosophie, wobei einige schwer verständliche Texte erklärt w…

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D T J Bailey
Plato's Phaedo

D.T.J. Bailey here offers a student-friendly guide to Plato's dialogue Phaedo , as part of the Oxford Guides to Philosophy series. In the process of explaining the text, Bailey provides a picture of Plato…

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D T J Bailey
Plato's Phaedo

D.T.J. Bailey here offers a student-friendly guide to Plato's dialogue Phaedo , as part of the Oxford Guides to Philosophy series. In the process of explaining the text, Bailey provides a picture of Plato…

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Vitruvius
How to Make a Home

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient Roman writings about home design and decorationThe idea that our homes can communicate professional as well as personal identities may seem as new as…

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