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“daniel s werner”

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  • Myth and Philosophy in Plato's Phaedrus

    by Daniel S. Werner ...
    Plato's dialogues frequently criticize traditional Greek myth, yet Plato also integrates myth with his writing. Daniel S. Werner confronts this paradox through an in-depth analysis of the Phaedrus, Plato's most mythical dialogue. Werner argues that the myths of the Phaedrus serve several complex functions: they bring nonphilosophers into the philosophical life; they offer a starting point for ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

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  • Republic

    by Robin Waterfield ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Essentially an inquiry into morality, Republic also contains crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy. It is also a literary masterpiece: the philosophy is presented for the most part for the ordinary reader, who is carried along by the wit and intensity of the dialogue and by Plato's ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Marcus Aurelius: A Guide for the Perplexed

    by William O. Stephens ...
    Series series Guides for the Perplexed
    This book is a clear and concise introduction to the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. His one major surviving work, often titled 'meditations' but literally translated simply as 'to himself', is a series of short, sometimes enigmatic reflections divided seemingly arbitrarily into twelve books and apparently written only to be read by him. For these reasons Marcus is a particularly ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Cosmology and the Polis

    The Social Construction of Space and Time in the Tragedies of Aeschylus

    by Richard Seaford ...
    This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon whereby the spatial and temporal frameworks explicit or implicit in a text have the same structure, and uncovers various such chronotopes in Homer, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Presocratic philosophy ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome

    Ancient Ideas for Modern Times

    by Christopher Pelling, Maria Wyke ...
    Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Chistopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a vibrant and distinctive introduction to twelve of the greatest authors from ancient Greece and Rome, writers whose voices still resonate strongly across the centuries: Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, Euripides, Thucydides ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Parmenides of Elea

    A text and translation with an introduction

    Series series Phoenix Presocractic Series
    David Gallop provides a Greek text and a new facing-page translation of the extant fragments of Parmenides' philosophical poem. He also includes the first complete translation into English of the contexts in which the fragments have been transmitted to us, and of the ancient testimonia regarding Parmenides' life and thought. All of the fragments have been translated in full and are arranged in the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers

    Edited by Tiziano Dorandi ...
    Series Book 50 - Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
    This edition presents a radically improved text of Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers. The text is accompanied by a full critical apparatus on three levels. A lengthy introduction lists all the manuscripts of the Lives and discusses its transmission in late antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. There is also an index of personal names, a bibliography and notes covering ... Read more

    $58.29 USD

  • Roman Social Imaginaries

    Language and Thought in the Context of Empire

    by Clifford Ando ...
    In an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin language and Roman thinking about law, society, and empire. Drawing on innovative work in cognitive linguistics and anthropology, Roman Social Imaginaries considers how metaphor, metonymy, analogy, and ideation helped create the structures of thought that shaped the Roman ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Playing Hesiod

    The 'Myth of the Races' in Classical Antiquity

    by Helen Van Noorden ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    This book offers a new description of the significance of Hesiod's 'myth of the races' for ancient Greek and Roman authors, showing how the most detailed responses to this story go far beyond nostalgia for a lost 'Golden' age or hope of its return. Through a series of close readings, it argues that key authors from Plato to Juvenal rewrite the story to reconstruct 'Hesiod' more broadly as ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Lucretius in the Modern World

    by Professor W.R. Johnson ...
    Lucretius' On the Nature of Things - one of the glories of Latin literature - provides a vivid poetic exposition of the doctrines of the Greek atomist, Epicurus. The poem played a crucial role in the reinvention of science in the seventeenth century, its influence on the French Enlightenment was powerful and pervasive, and it became a major battlefield in the wars of religion with science in ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Guilt by Descent

    Moral Inheritance and Decision Making in Greek Tragedy

    by N. J. Sewell-Rutter ...
    Series series Oxford Classical Monographs
    Blighted and accursed families are an inescapable feature of Greek tragedy, and many scholars have treated questions of inherited guilt, curses, and divine causation. N.J. Sewell-Rutter gives these familiar issues a fresh appraisal, arguing that tragedy is a medium that fuses the conceptual with the provoking and exciting of emotion, neither of which can be ignored if the texts are to be fully ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists

    by James Warren ...
    Human lives are full of pleasures and pains. And humans are creatures that are able to think: to learn, understand, remember and recall, plan and anticipate. Ancient philosophers were interested in both of these facts and, what is more, were interested in how these two facts are related to one another. There appear to be, after all, pleasures and pains associated with learning and inquiring, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD