Classical History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 5

Roshanak Kheshti
Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach

So much, popular and scholarly, has been written about the synthesizer, Bob Moog and his brand-name instrument, and even Wendy Carlos, the musician who made this instrument famous. No one, however, has ex…

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Emily Hauser
How Women Became Poets

How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one---aoidos , or "singer-man." The most fam…

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Bhikkhu Analayo, Alexandra Pappas
In Love with Wisdom

Bridging early Buddhist thought and ancient Greek philosophy, In Love with Wisdom offers a fresh glimpse into the ethics and metaphysics of the time, revealing how figures like Heraclitus and Socrates wer…

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Two Philosophers

"If there is a philosophical Atlas who carries the whole of Western civilization on his shoulders," Ayn Rand wrote, "it is Aristotle. He has been opposed, misinterpreted, misrepresented, an…

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Plutarch
How to Listen

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

A lively new translation of Plutarch's charming and timeless essay on how to be a good listener-and why listening is essential to learning and living wellListening is a skill-even an art-and it's essentia…

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Kyle Hutchinson
Processual Tonality and the Psychoacoustics of Chromaticism

Processual Tonality and the Psychoacoustics of Chromaticism presents a theory of how chromaticism in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and North American music affects the ways in whic…

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Robert Campbell Roberts
Virtue Ethics

Robert Campbell Roberts here offers an introduction to virtue ethics, suitable for students, that covers the topic along multiple dimensions--a historical and conceptual survey, a proposal for a new virtu…

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Marcus Tullius Cicero
How to Find Happiness

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

Does happiness come from the pursuit of pleasure or moral virtue? A vivid new translation of Cicero's exploration of a timeless question"Of course, we all want to be happy." So wrote the Roman s…

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Boethius
How to Cope

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

A vivid and accessible new translation of essential selections from Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy---a moving classic about facing life's worst events with courage and hopeWhat do you do when your l…

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Ryan Holiday
Wisdom Takes Work

Diversified Publishing

In this much-anticipated final installment in the Stoic Virtues series, Ryan Holiday makes the case for the virtue on which all other virtues depend.Of all the stoic virtues - courage, discipline, justice…

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Jacopo Bonetto, Andrea Raffaele Ghiotto,
Aquileia

Aquileia is the largest archaeological site in Northern Italy, which once stood at the geo-political crossroad of cultural exchanges between Italy, the central-eastern Mediterranean and continental Europe…

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Robert Campbell Roberts
Virtue Ethics

Robert Campbell Roberts here offers an introduction to virtue ethics, suitable for students, that covers the topic along multiple dimensions--a historical and conceptual survey, a proposal for a new virtu…

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A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in Antiquity

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Spanning chronologically from the third millennium BCE through to the se…

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Matthew Barr, John Claughton, Benedict Gravell, Ellice Hetherington
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek as and a Level: 2026-2028

The only exam-board approved book for the texts examined as part of OCR's AS and A Level in Classical Greek for examinations in 2026-28.

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Fire! Orchestra

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This new, extended reading by Mats Gustafsson and Fire! Orchestra of the great Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki´s seminal "Actions For Free Jazz Orchestra" (1971) was commissioned by the Sacrum Profan…

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Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

How did ancient Greeks and Romans perceive their environments: did they see order or chaos, chance or control? And how do their views compare to modern perceptions? Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman A…

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Ashli J E Baker
Identity Crises in Apuleius

In the second century CE, the multiethnic, multilingual, and religiously diverse Roman Empire grew to its greatest extent. To maintain order, Rome relied heavily on strict social hierarchies, established …

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Yelena Baraz
Calpurnius Siculus and the Transformation of Pastoral

One of three surviving collections of Latin bucolic poetry, the seven Eclogues transmitted under the name of Calpurnius Siculus are generally assigned to the reign of Nero, although the debate on dating c…

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A E Stallings
Frieze Frame

"Frieze Frame is a lucidly brilliant, learned read that wears its learning lightly, inviting the reader into a coterie of artists and intellectuals, traced and uncovered with a poet's touch." --…

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D M Spitzer
Breaking Light

Discloses the ways in which opacity and relation in the thought of Thales, Anaximandros, and Anaximenes depart from the predominant understanding of philosophy as clarity.In Breaking Light D. M. Spitzer d…

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