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John Ma
Polis

A definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-stateThe Greek polis , or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles …

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The Philology of the Future

This book gathers a group of scholars whose work has been influenced by the distinctive dialogue between ancient philosophy (and rhetoric) and critical theory promoted by the scholarship of James I. Porte…

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Agnes Callard
Open Socrates

There are important questions about your life that you are avoiding, right now, as you read this. You tell yourself that now is not the moment to attempt an answer. Like other people you know, you are tak…

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William O Stephens
Marcus Aurelius

The moving life and legacy of Rome's great emperor philosopher.This book guides us through the fascinating life and writings of Marcus Aurelius, Stoic philosopher and Roman emperor. Philosopher William O.…

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Peter Kingsley
In the Dark Places of Wisdom

A set of ancient inscriptions on marble found 40 years ago in southern Italy, recording details so bewildering that scholars have kept silent about them ... Sensational new information about a group of an…

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Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond

This open-access volume is the first to explore systematically and comprehensively the concept and category of 'horror' in antiquity. The contributors retrieve the ancient grammar of horror by paying equa…

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Agnes Callard
Open Socrates

'A gem of a book, serious and clever yet funny and playful' Financial Times'Professor of philosophy and a public intellectual for the internet age, Callard shows how Socrates can inform the way we live ou…

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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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Epictetus
The Teachings of a Stoic

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Seneca
How to Live

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

A vivid new translation in which the Stoic philosopher argues that virtue is the only path to contentmentWhy are so many people unhappy when happiness can be attained by anyone who simply lives virtuously…

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Jennifer T Roberts
Out of One, Many

A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversityCovering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in…

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Ben Lamm
The Elements of Civilization

By the cofounder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, which recently gained global headlines for reviving the extinct dire wolf --- the first of many planned "de-extinction" projects, including wool…

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Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and its Reception

The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception. Individual themes include religious mystery; calendrical and cyclical thinking as …

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Sean Alexander Gurd
God's Lyre

God's Lyreis about a network of ancient ideas that connected musical expression to natural philosophy. This network included Aristotelians, Stoics, and Alexandrian monotheists, and it had a major effect o…

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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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Patrick Glauthier
The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome

The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome charts the significance of the sublime in first-century debates about how and why we investigate the natural world. By connecting Manilius' Astronomica , Seneca's N…

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Christopher B Zeichmann
Radical Antiquity

'Unearthing the ancient world's anarchist cultures, Zeichmann presents a compelling argument that authority may itself have always been the real aberration. Highly recommended' - Alan Moore, writer, activ…

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Koert Debeuf,
The Influence of Averroes on European Thought

An exploration of the reception of Avicenna in the West that presents a new reading of the history of European philosophy.

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Zachary Ugolnik
The Collective Self

Reveals a conception of selfhood in Byzantine and Middle-Eastern sources that is fundamentally collective rather than merely individual, challenging Western-centric narratives of the modern self and enric…

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