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Sam Reenan
Symphonic Spectacles

How did composers in the early twentieth century combine traditional approaches to musical structure? In Symphonic Spectacles author Sam Reenan presents a set of case studies, using works by Strauss, Beac…

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Early Modern Receptions of Tacitus

This volume explores the uses of the enduringly popular Roman historian Tacitus in and since the early modern period. In particular, it focuses on the road to and ongoing legacy of 'high Tacitism' (c. 157…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Linda Johnsen
Lost Masters

Ashrams in Europe twenty-five hundred years ago? Greek philosophers studying in India? Meditation classes in ancient Rome? It sounds unbelievable, but it's historically true. Alexander the Great had an In…

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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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Leah Whittington
Antiquity Made Whole

Coming soon: Antiquity Made Whole by Leah Whittington.

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Cursed!

A bewitching study of magical objects from ancient societies, including Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and RomePublished with Toledo Museum of Art.The belief in magic was widespread across ancient Egypt, Meso…

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George Boys-Stones
Apuleius on the Cosmos

Apuleius' De Mundo ('On the Cosmos') has never been published in English translation. One reason for this may be that it has itself been viewed as a mere translation of a work that survives in the Aristot…

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