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  • Epicurus and the Epicurean Tradition

    Edited by Kirk R. Sanders, Jeffrey Fish ...
    Epicureanism after the generation of its founders has been characterised as dogmatic, uncreative and static. But this volume brings together work from leading classicists and philosophers that demonstrates the persistent interplay in the school between historical and contemporary influences from outside the school and a commitment to the founders' authority. The interplay begins with Epicurus ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans

    Edited by David Armstrong, Jeffrey Fish, Patricia A. Johnston, Marilyn B. Skinner ...
    The Epicurean teacher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110-c. 40/35 BC) exercised significant literary and philosophical influence on Roman writers of the Augustan Age, most notably the poets Vergil and Horace. Yet a modern appreciation for Philodemus' place in Roman intellectual history has had to wait on the decipherment of the charred remains of Philodemus' library, which was buried in ... Read more

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  • Dialogues and Essays

    by Seneca, Tobias Reinhardt ...
    Translated by John Davie ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.' In these dialogues and essays the Stoic philosopher Seneca outlines his thoughts on how to live in a troubled world. Tutor to the young emperor Nero, Seneca wrote exercises in practical philosophy that draw upon contemporary Roman life and illuminate the intellectual concerns of the day. They also have much to say ... Read more

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  • Complete Letters

    by Pliny the Younger ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Pliny's letters provide a fascinating insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. They document politics, social life, religion, the educational system, the treatment of slaves and include a vivid description of the eruption of Vesuvius. This is a lively and sympathetic new translation. - ;'Gaius Pliny sends greetings to his friend Septicius Clarus...' In these letters to his friends and ... Read more

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  • The Efficiency Expert

    by Edgar Rice Burroughs ...
    "The Efficiency Expert" tells the story of Jimmy Torrance, a young man who graduates from college but struggles to find employment. Determined to prove himself, he takes on a job as an efficiency expert at a factory owned by the father of the woman he loves.Jimmy faces various challenges in his new role as he tries to improve the factory's operations and productivity. Along the way, he encounters ... Read more

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  • Introduction to the Bible

    by Christine Hayes ...

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  • Euthyphro

    by Plato ...
    Plato Greek: Pláton, pronounced in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423– 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the most pivotal figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition.Unlike nearly all of his philosophical contemporaries, ... Read more

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  • Fragments

    by Heraclitus ...
    Translated by Brooks Haxton ...
    Fragments of wisdom from the ancient worldIn the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred years before Einstein--Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that everything becomes energy in flux, in relativity. His great book, On Nature, the world's first coherent philosophical treatise and touchstone for Plato, Aristotle, and Marcus Aurelius, has long been lost to history- ... Read more

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  • Poetic Interplay

    Catullus and Horace

    by Michael C.J. Putnam ...
    Series series Martin Classical Lectures
    The lives of Catullus and Horace overlap by a dozen years in the first century BC. Yet, though they are the undisputed masters of the lyric voice in Roman poetry, Horace directly mentions his great predecessor, Catullus, only once, and this reference has often been taken as mocking. In fact, Horace's allusion, far from disparaging Catullus, pays him a discreet compliment by suggesting the ... Read more

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  • Physics

    by Aristotle ...
    The Physics of Aristotle is one of the foundational books of Western science and philosophy.The Physics is composed of eight books, which are further divided into chapters. In this article, books are referenced with Roman numerals, chapters with Arabic numerals. Additionally, the Bekker numbers give the page and line numbers used in the Prussian Academy of Sciences edition of Aristotle's works. ... Read more

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  • Gods, Heroes, & Kings

    The Battle for Mythic Britain

    by Christopher R. Fee ...
    The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves ... Read more

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  • Plato: Phaedrus

    by Plato ...
    Series series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    Ostensibly a discussion about love, the debate in the Phaedrus also encompasses the art of rhetoric and how it should be practised. This new edition contains an introductory essay outlining the argument of the dialogue as a whole and Plato's arguments about rhetoric and eros in particular. The Introduction also considers Plato's style and offers an account of the reception of the dialogue from its ... Read more

    $36.99 USD