Ancient History, Classical Art And Civilization – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 9

Dominic Scott
Contemplation and Society in Plato and Aristotle

"This Element concerns the civic value of contemplation in Plato and Aristotle: how does intellectual contemplation contribute to the happiness of the ideal state? The texts discussed include the Rep…

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Dominic Scott
Contemplation and Society in Plato and Aristotle

"This Element concerns the civic value of contemplation in Plato and Aristotle: how does intellectual contemplation contribute to the happiness of the ideal state? The texts discussed include the Rep…

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James Bernard Murphy
Deification in Classical Greek Philosophy and the Bible

"The goal of human life, according to Plato, Aristotle, and the Bible, is to become as much like god as possible. This book, written in vivid and lucid English, illuminates Greek philosophy by showin…

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The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings

This book is the first volume in the definitive anthology of early Christian texts, focusing on faith.

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Ralph Lange
Leading Rome from a Distance, 300 Bce-37 CE

A study of the notion of absent leadership and the methods used to govern Rome by politicians and leaders during the Republican and Early Imperial period.

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Kin Sum Li
Bronze Mirrors in Ancient China

"This pioneering work offers a detailed analysis of how mirrors were designed and produced during the period from 500 to 200 BCE. It describes mirror manufacture, considers the degree to which artisa…

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Jessica Lightfoot,
Strabo

"This book provides a short and accessible introduction to Strabo's life, times and cultural context. It outlines the importance of geography and geographical writing in the Augustan period and its d…

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David Alan Parnell
Belisarius & Antonina

Belisarius & Antonina is a biography of an immensely powerful marriage in the time of Roman resurgence and expansion. It sheds new light on the reign of Justinian while exploring the successes, failur…

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Ronna Burger
The Phaedo

Since antiquity the Phaedo has been considered the source of "the twin pillars of Platonism" - the theory of ideas and the immortality of the soul. Tracing the movement of the argument through t…

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Plotinus: The Enneads

"The second edition of the first English translation of the complete works of Plotinus in one volume in seventy years. Led by Lloyd P. Gerson, a team of experts present up-to-date translations which …

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Ancient Epigraphic Culture on the Aegean and Ionian Islands

Through a series of case-studies of nine Aegean and Ionian islands, the contributors examine the ancient epigraphic culture of each island's political, social and religious history from the archaic age un…

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Ward Farnsworth
The Practicing Stoic

This is a book about human nature and its management. The wisest students of that subject in ancient times, and perhaps of all time, were known as the Stoics. Their recommendations about how to think and …

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'Anonymus Iamblichi'

"In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Protrepticus ('Exhortation to Philosophy') by Iamblichus of Chalcis, the second book of his ten-volume introduction to Pythagorean philosophy, becam…

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D. Wardle
Suetonius: Life of Julius Caesar

D. Wardle provides the only translation and detailed commentary on Suetonius' biography of Caesar that is fully accessible to readers without Latin or Greek, enabling them to appreciate a detail-packed pi…

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Zahi Hawass
Mountains of the Pharaohs

""Nearly five thousand years ago, the fourth dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom reigned over a highly advanced civilization. Believed to be gods, the royal family lived amid colossal palaces and tem…

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Rare& Marinescu
Proclus on Aristotle on Plato

"Refutes the often-held view that Proclus - in line with other Neoplatonists - adheres to the idea of an essential harmony between Plato and Aristotle. Enables a reassessment of the reception and aut…

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Bryan C Reece
Aristotle on Happiness, Virtue, and Wisdom

This book seeks to understand Aristotle's influential answers to the questions: What is happiness? What is the relationship between intellectual and practical activity? How do wise people behave? It offer…

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Ancient Women Philosophers

"This volume of essays retrieves the largely unresearched thought and the original ideas of ancient women philosophers and carves out a space for them in the canon. The broad focus includes women thi…

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Inquiring into Being

New essays on early Greek natural philosopher Parmenides, who is perhaps the originator of metaphysics.

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Robert Roreitner
Aristotle on the Nature and Causes of Perception

"This book provides a fresh interpretation of Aristotle's account of perception, refocusing the debate and emphasising what remains philosophically relevant. It will engage experts on Aristotle and h…

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