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  • Aristotle in the Antebellum South

    Natural Slavery, Democracy, and the Ancients

    Aristotle in the Antebellum South addresses two questions related to the use of the classical past in the context of the proslavery argument as it developed in the 1830s, 40s, and 50s. First, what specific ideological needs did Aristotelian ideas about natural hierarchy serve in the antebellum South? Ideas about natural slavery explicitly marked as Aristotelian had been universally rejected by ... Leer más

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Focusing on the period known as the Second Sophistic (an era roughly co-extensive with the second century AD), this Handbook serves the need for a broad and accessible overview. The study of the Second Sophistic is a relative new-comer to the Anglophone field of classics and much of what characterizes it temporally and culturally remains a matter of legitimate contestation. The present handbook ... Leer más

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  • Cosmopolis

    Imagining Community in Late Classical Athens and the Early Roman Empire

    This is a book about the ways in which various intellectuals in the post-classical Mediterranean imagined the human community as a unified, homogenous whole composed of a diversity of parts. More specifically, it explores how authors of the second century CE adopted and adapted a particular ethnic and cultural discourse that had been elaborated by late fifth- and fourth-century BCE Athenian ... Leer más

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    The Cambridge Medieval History collection on the Eastern Roman Empire is a must-have for anyone interested in the history of the Eastern Empire, from the Balkans to Armenia. The collection is an exhaustive resource, discussing the empire from 500 1500 A.D. Topics such as the history of the Bulgarian kingdom, Armenia, the Venetian occupation of Greece , the Golden Horde, the Seljuqs, and the ... Leer más

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  • The Golden Asse

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    Apuleius (/ˌæpjʉˈliːəs/; also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 – c. 170 AD) was a Latin-language prose writer. He was a Numidian Berber who lived under the Roman Empire and was from Madaurus (now M'Daourouch, Algeria). He studied Platonist philosophy in Athens, travelled to Italy, Asia Minor, and Egypt and was an initiate in several cults or mysteries. The most famous incident in his ... Leer más

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  • The Complete Xenophon Collection

    de Xenophon ...
    Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.Xenophon was an ancient Greek historian and philosopher. Xenophon was a student of Socrates and wrote several Socratic dialogues. This collection includes the following ... Leer más

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  • The Secret History of the Court of Justinian

    de Procopius ...
    Procopius of Caesarea (circa AD 500 – c. AD 565) was a prominent Byzantine scholar from Palaestina Prima. Accompanying the general Belisarius in the wars of the Emperor Justinian I, he became the principal historian of the 6th century, writing the "Wars of Justinian", the "Buildings of Justinian" and the celebrated "Secret History". He is commonly held to be the last major historian of the ancient ... Leer más

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  • The End of Empire

    Attila the Hun & the Fall of Rome

    "A thoughtful and sophisticated account of a notoriously complicated and controversial period." —R. I. Moore, Times Literary SupplementHistory remembers Attila, the leader of the Huns, as the Romans perceived him: a savage barbarian brutally inflicting terror on whoever crossed his path. Following Attila and the Huns from the steppes of Kazakhstan to the court of Constantinople, Christopher Kelly ... Leer más

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  • Euthyphro

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    In Euthyphro, Socrates is on his way to the court, where he must defend himself against serious charges brought by religious and political authorities. On the way he meets Euthyphro, an expert on religious matters who has come to prosecute his own father. Socrates questions Euthyphro's claim that religion serves as the basis for ethics. Euthyphro is not able to provide satisfactory answers to ... Leer más

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  • Scipio Africanus: Rome's Greatest General

    The world often misunderstands its greatest men while neglecting others entirely. Scipio Africanus, surely the greatest general that Rome produced, suffered both these fates. Today scholars celebrate the importance of Hannibal, even though Scipio defeated the legendary general in the Second Punic War and was the central military figure of his time. In this scholarly and heretofore unmatched ... Leer más

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  • Early Greek Philosophy (Illustrated Edition)

    de John Burnet ...
    John Burnet (1863-1928) was a Scottish classicist who made lasting contributions to the field of philosophical studies, primarily in Ancient Greek philosophy. In particular, it was Burnet who originally theorized that Platos Socratic dialogues, which cast Socrates as the central character, were reflections of Socrates views instead of Platos own. There is still debate over whether Plato has ... Leer más

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  • The Fate of Rome

    Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire

    de Kyle Harper ...
    Series series The Princeton History of the Ancient World
    How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mightiest civilizations of the ancient worldHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change ... Leer más

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