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ESSENTIAL ILIAD
[Homer; Translated & Edited by Stanley Lombardo]
While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this bare-bones abridgment highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature, and in Western civilization surveys.
{
168pp,
140x215mm,
September 2000;
PB,
£5.45,
0872205428:9780872205420
/
HB,
£24.95,
0872205436:9780872205437
, Hackett Publishing
} |
 |
GEORGICS
[Virgil; Translated by Kristina Chew]
Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatises -- and in a style influenced by twentieth-century poetry -- this bold new translation seeks to renew our appreciation of a work often relegated to the pigeonhole of didactic poetry about farming. In doing so, it reveals the Georgics as a remarkable window on Roman conceptions of the natural world and of the place of human life within it -- and also conveys a sense of how daring were Virgil's poetics in their day. Footnotes offer a wealth of information on mythology, agriculture, wildlife, geography, and astronomy while highlighting the technical, scientific, ethnographic, and other registers of the poem.
{
152pp,
140x215mm,
March 2002;
PB,
£7.95,
0872206092:9780872206090
/
HB,
£27.95,
0872206106:9780872206106
, Hackett Publishing
} |
 |
HOMERIC MOMENTS
: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey & the Iliad
[Eva Brann]
Whether readers are tackling the Odyssey and the Iliad for the first time or are already well acquainted with the works of Homer, they will uncover the connections and layers of meaning that have made the epics 'the marvel of the ages' in this scholarly and encouraging resource. The inexhaustible pleasures of Homer are highlighted by focusing on a number of 'Homeric moments' -- crucial scenes from the epics that cast a vivid or hilarious or poignant light on the narratives: Penelope and Odysseus, faithful wife and returning husband, sit face to face in private over the hearth for the first time in 20 years; young Telemachus, with his father Odysseus at his side, boldly faces the angry suitors; Achilles kills Hector, his mirror image, on the battlefield. Whatever the 'clues to delight', these leads take the reader behind the story to reveal hidden treasures in the poetry.
{
326pp,
155x230mm,
May 2002;
PB,
£13.50,
0967967570:9780967967578
, Paul Dry Books
} |
 |
IMAGE OF A SECOND SUN
: Plato on Poetry, Rhetoric, & the Techne of Mimesis
[Jeff Mitscherling]
This absorbing study of Plato's criticism of poetry offers a new interpretation based upon central features of both the pre-Platonic conception of poetry and previously neglected features of Plato's various discussions of poetry and the poets. Professor Mitscherling's analysis is unique in that he concentrates on the philosophical significance of Plato's distinction between dramatic and non-dramatic sorts of poetry. Mitscherling shows that this distinction proves in fact to be central to the conception of poetry that Plato consistently elaborates throughout his dialogues. Mitscherling also makes a unique contribution by outlining a possible Platonic aesthetics, which draws on current work in phenomenology and hermeneutics in such a way as to promise an entirely new direction for current work in continental aesthetics. The author employs Gadamer's analyses of the ontology of the work of art, in conjunction with a phenomenological analysis of the aesthetic experience, in the construction of a foundation for aesthetics that is consistently Platonic. Mitscherling concludes with the hypothesis that Plato's criticism of poetry did not apply to poetry itself, nor was it directed to art in general or the educational system, or the Sophists. Rather, Plato was specifically against the technç of mimçsis, that is, the technique of persuading by appearing to be what one is not, or by merely appearing to speak the truth.
{
260pp,
155x230mm,
April 2008;
HB,
£36.99,
1591024315:9781591024316
, Prometheus Books
} |
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ODYSSEY
[Homer; Translated by Stanley Lombardo]
Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad. Lombardo has created a Homeric voice for his contemporaries: fresh, quick and verbally engaging to the modern ear, as the original was to the ancient. His characters come alive as real people expressing real feelings with urgency and verve. This would be very welcome for classroom use.
{
478pp,
135x215mm,
April 2000;
PB,
£8.50,
0872204847:9780872204843
/
HB,
£29.95,
0872204855:9780872204850
, Hackett Publishing
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PARTHENOPE
: Studies in Ancient Greek Fiction
[Tomas Hägg; Edited by Lars Boje Mortensen & Tormod Eide]
This collection of studies is a sequel to Hägg's popular survey, 'The Novel of Antiquity' (1983), and a companion volume to his recent 'The Virgin and Her Lover'. The book offers a fully indexed version of his main contributions in the field, especially from the 1980s and 1990s, as well as previously unpublished work, a new Xenophon, and Heliodoros, Hägg also widens the scope with studies on the lives of Aesop and Apollonios of Tyana and on the oriental reception of the Greek novel.
{
493pp,
165x245mm,
October 2004;
HB,
£35.00,
8772899077:9788772899077
, Museum Tusculanum Press
} |
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POEMS & FRAGMENTS
[Sappho; Translated by Stanley Lombardo]
A new Sappho by a master poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translator puts it: ''ever mindful of performative qualities, quality of voice, changes of voice...".
{
68pp,
135x215mm,
March 2002;
PB,
£6.95,
0872205916:9780872205918
/
HB,
£24.95,
0872205924:9780872205925
, Hackett Publishing
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POETICS
: Aristotle
[Rearranged, abridged & translated for better understanding by the general reader by N G L Hammond]
In many fields of knowledge Aristotle was and is today an outstanding figure. He possessed the acutest powers of observation and analysis, and he applied the systematic method of definition and classification to the study of biology, physics, logic, ethics, metaphysics and literature. His writings, however, at least in the form in which they have come down to us, are far from systematic in arrangement and far from clear in exposition. The discrepancy between his scientific method and his literary manner is probably to be explained on the hypothesis that the notes, on which his lectures at the Academy were based, were published in the form in which they were found after his death. The Poetics is a case in point. The arrangement of the argument is often haphazard. For example, a technical term is frequently used in one chapter and defined in a subsequent chapter; literary forms, such as tragedy and epic, are distinguished from one another, but the treatment of them is intermingled; and the summary of contents does not correspond in order to the unfolding of the argument. In consequence, the treatise is often confusing to the scholar and to the layman. In this version the text has been so rearranged that it makes the argument clear. The style of Aristotle is direct, concise and close to the ordinary speech of his day. The style of the translation by professor Hammond is intended to be similar. Aristotle's method of exposition is marked in detail by some idioms of connection and arrangement which are alien to us. In the translation these idioms of exposition have been abandoned, and the normal practice of our day has been adopted.
{
56pp,
135x210mm,
October 2001;
PB,
£13.00,
8772896833:9788772896830
, Museum Tusculanum Press
} |
 |
SEVENTEEN TREES
[Marianne Micros]
Marianne Micros, in Seventeen Trees, re-creates her deeply personal journeys to the land of her ancestors, a Greece where myth, spiritual sites, family folklore, and human encounters converge to intensify the poet's awareness of her origins, permitting her to mourn and celebrate, to reflect and dance.
{
82pp,
December 2006;
PB,
£8.99,
1550712438:9781550712438
, Guernica Editions
} |
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT
: Selections from Diodorous, Plutarch, Quintius Curtius, & Arrian
[James Romm (ed); Translated by Pamela Mensch & James Romm]
Comprised of relevant selections from the writings of four ancient historians, this volume provides a complete narrative of the important events in the life of Alexander the Great. The Introduction sets these works in historical context, from the conclusion of the Peloponnesian War through Alexander's conquest of Asia, and provides an assessment of Alexander's historical importance, as well as a survey of the central controversies surrounding his personality, aims and intentions. Includes a timeline, maps, bibliography, glossary, and index.
{
193pp,
155x230mm,
March 2005;
PB,
£7.95,
0872207277:9780872207271
/
HB,
£27.95,
0872207285:9780872207288
, Hackett Publishing
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GREEK ROMANS & ROMAN GREEKS
: Studies in Cultural Interaction
[Erik Nis Ostenfeld (ed)]
In its first three centuries the Roman Empire expanded politically at the same time as Greek culture was enjoying its heyday. This not only created tensions but also many productive impulses, which were mirrored in different branches of cultural life. In this collection of papers an assembled team of international scholars from the fields of philosophy, history of ideas, literature, epigraphy, archaeology and history explores the intercultural aspects of that thriving period. Lisa Nevett's paper "Continuity and change in Greek households under Roman rule - the role of women in the domestic context" looks at the extent to which individual households and especially attitudes to women changed under Roman control. her evidence of patterns of social behaviour is archaeological and she concludes that a relaxation of restrictions on women took place from the later Hellenistic period onwards and therefore was a development which had begun prior to the arrival of the Romans. Paolo Desideri surveys Greek historiographical literature of the second century AD to find a key to Greek mentality and political ideology in the late Roman Empire. The Greeks did not have to give up their civilisation and identity; Appian and Cassius Dio even created the idea of a Hellenistic rather than a Roman Empire. Philip Stadter in "Plutarch's Lives and their Roman Readers" argues that Plutarch in "Lives is counselling the elite class of the Roman Empire, and that Tiberius Gracchus in particular would have provided a useful lesson, e.g. for the emperor Hadrian. Ewen Bowie explores the literary tales of Hadrian in Latin and particularly Greek poetry, including ancient sources for his preferences, his own compositions and some of the poems composed by the friends of ministers. Hadrian seems to have preferred Antimaches over Homer, admired Archilochus, Parthenius and short polymetric compositions.
{
287pp,
March 2002;
HB,
£22.95,
8772887966:9788772887968
, Aarhus University Press
} |
 |
IMAGES OF ANCESTORS
[Jakob Munk Hojte (ed)]
To achieve status in the classical world, a certain intimacy with one's ancestors was essential. By referring to the illustrious exploits and qualities of his forebears, a man could strengthen his position in society. If his origins lacked sufficient glory, he could construct a family tree and testify to its authenticity through the judicious use of portraits and legendary allusions. In this volume, fifth in the "Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity" series, 11 scholars analyse ancestral representation in ancient Greece, Etruria and Rome. While some contributions address the artistic, social and political significance of given portraits, others address broader themes: true and false forefathers in the portraits of Hellenistic rulers, the question of whether women were ancestors in republican Rome, and how the Roman non-elite used funerary statues to acquire an ancestor.
{
309pp,
December 2002;
HB,
£22.95,
8772889489:9788772889481
, Aarhus University Press
} |
 |
LEGAL SPEECHES OF DEMOCRATIC ATHENS
: Sources for Athenian Social & Cultural History
[Edited & Translated by Andrew Wolpert & Konstantinos Kapparis]
Designed for use in any undergraduate course focused on ancient Greece, this collection offers new, accurate translations of the twelve legal speeches -- including Lysias 1; Aeschines 1; and Demosthenes 21, 54, and 59 -- essential for the study of classical Athenian social and cultural history. The themes explored in these speeches include: gender and sexuality, slavery, social conflict, citizenship, and the economy. A general introduction provides a brief description of the Athenian government, the workings of the court system, and biographies of the orators. Each speech is preceded by a summary of the dispute, an account of its legal parameters, and the social significance of the case. Footnotes identify those terms, names, and references that may be unfamiliar to modern readers, and point out those passages in which the orator's rhetorical conceits may be misleading. An index and glossary of terms are also included.
{
ca256pp,
October 2008;
PB,
£12.95,
087220927X:9780872209275
/
HB,
£32.00,
0872209288:9780872209282
, Hackett Publishing
} |
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ON THE WAR FOR GREEK FREEDOM
: Selections from the 'Histories'
[Herodotus; Translated by Samuel Shirley]
Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language, history, and culture, this new abridgement presents those selections that comprise Herodotus' historical narrative. These are meticulously annotated, and supplemented with a chronology of the Archaic Age, Historical Epilogue, glossary of main characters and places, index of proper names, and maps.
{
201pp,
140x215mm,
March 2003;
PB,
£5.95,
087220667X:9780872206670
/
HB,
£24.95,
0872206688:9780872206687
, Hackett Publishing
} |
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POLIS & POLITICS
: Studies in Ancient Greek History Presented to Mogens Herman Hansen on His Sixtieth Birthday, August 20 2000
[Pernille Flensted-Jensen, Thomas Heine Nielsen, & Lene Rubinstein (ed)]
Contains 35 articles devoted to different aspects of the Greek polis and is intended not only as a present for Mogens Herman Hansen on his sixtieth birthday, but also as a way of thanking him for his significant contributions to the field of Greek history over the past three decades.
{
651pp,
180x255mm,
September 2000;
HB,
£50.00,
8772896280:9788772896281
, Museum Tusculanum Press
} |
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ARTHUR EVANS, KNOSSOS & THE PRIEST-KING
[S Sherratt]
The year 2000 marks the centenary of the start of excavations at the site of Knossos on Crete, the centre of a Bronze Age civilisation which its excavator, Arthur Evans, called 'Minoan' after King Minos of Greek legend. The palace which he uncovered there was originally decorated with frescoed wall paintings, some of them showing figured scenes, which mostly survived only in a fragmentary and incomplete state. One of the most striking fresco images, and one which particularly engaged Evans's imagination, is the controversial figure of the Priest-King, whom Evans regarded as a portrayal of one of the priestly rulers of Knossos. This booklet gives an account of the history of its discovery, its re-creation and the important part it played in Evans's vision of Knossos.
{
24pp,
170x240mm,
January 2001;
PB,
£4.95,
1854441426:9781854441423
, Ashmolean Museum
} |
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HIEROGLYPHIC ARCHIVE AT PETRAS, SITEIAS
((Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, 9))
[Metaxia Tsipopoulos & Erik Hallager; Contributions by Cesare D Annibale & Dimitra Mylona]
This is the final and full publication of an archive with Cretan hieroglyphs found in Petras, Siteia. The archive consists of all kinds of written documents, and it has a unique collection of seals.
{
ca200pp,
September 2008;
PB,
£20.95,
8779342930:9788779342934
, Aarhus University Press
} |
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MINOANS IN THE CENTRAL, EASTERN & NORTHERN AEGEAN -- NEW EVIDENCE
: Acts of a Minoan Seminar 22-23 January 2005 in collaboration with the Danish Institute at Athens & the German Archaeological Institute at Athens
((Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, 8))
[Erik Hallager, C F Macdonald & W-D Niemeier (eds)]
In this book the scholarly world will be presented with new and hitherto unpublished material from proto- and neopalatial Crete found in the central, eastern and northern Aegean.
{
ca370pp,
September 2008;
PB,
£29.95,
8779342922:9788779342927
, Aarhus University Press
} |
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PANSKOYE 1, VOLUME 1
: The Monumental Building U6
[Lise Hannestad, Alexander Sceglov & Vladimir Stolba (eds)]
This is the first volume of the complete publication of Panskoye I, a rural settlement in North-western Crimea dating from the period c. 400-270BC. The settlement was founded by Olbia, the most important Greek city on the northern shores of the Black Sea. Half a century later the fortress was destroyed and the settlement taken over by another Greek city, Chersonesos Taurica. From then on and until its final destruction it formed part of the chora (territory) of this city. This volume published research results about a monumental building (U6) which was erected after the take-over by Chersonesos and details on the very varied and rich finds from the building. The volume encompasses detailed studies of the architecture and layout of the building, of a large number of finds such as sculpture, pottery, lamps, terracottas, coins, metal-, stone-, and glass objects and graffiti. Included also are the results of a number of scientific studies, such as geological, palaeobotanical and petrographic analyses. An introduction presents the large-scale survey of North-western Crimea which began in 1959 and of which the excavations of Panskoye I (1964-94) form a central part. This publication offers an insight into two important issues in ancient history and classical archaeology, a Greek city's exploitation of its territory and of the interaction between Greek settlers and all local tribes, in this case the Scythians and the Taurians. The volume is the first of three. Volume 2 will deal with the necropolis of the settlement, and volume 3 with the earliest fortress.
{
352pp,
March 2002;
HB,
£37.95,
8772887702:9788772887708
, Aarhus University Press
} |
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PANSKOYE 1, VOLUME 2
: The Necropolis
((Archaeological Investigations in Western Crimea))
[Eugeny Rogov & Vladimir Stolba]
This is the second volume of the complete publication of Panskoye I, a short-lived Greek rural site in Northwestern Crimea dating from the period c. 400-270 BC. The settlement was founded by Olbia, the most important Greek city on the northern shores of the Black Sea. Half a century later the fortress was destroyed and the settlement taken over by another Greek city, Tauric Chersonesos. From then on and until its final destruction it formed part of the chora (territory) of this city. Both the necropolis and settlement provide invaluable archaeological information thanks to the unique combination of a very precise date with rich finds of the material culture such as pottery, metals, sculptures, coins, inscriptions, etc, as well as anthropological data allowing the paleodemographic reconstructions.
{
350pp,
250x320mm,
September 2008;
HB,
£37.95,
8772887710:9788772887715
, Aarhus University Press
} |
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POTS FOR THE LIVING / POTS FOR THE DEAD
[Annette Rathle et al (eds)]
{
295pp,
155x230mm,
September 2002;
PB,
£27.00,
8772897120:9788772897127
, Museum Tusculanum Press
} |
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE DANISH INSTITUTE AT ATHENS, VOLUME 3
[Signe Isager & Inge Nielsen (eds)]
This is the third volume of a periodical that is published every two years on the archaeological activities of the Danish Institute at Athens, and contains articles by scholars in the fields of Greek archaeology, history, philology and literature. This volume reports on prehistoric Tummuli at Portes in Achaea, early Minoan Clay Strips and a sealing at Psathi, an early Etruscan Bronze Throne in Olympia, the Utopia of Xenophon, Cultic theatres and ritual drama in Ancient Greece, Greek theatre building in late classical and Hellenistic times, the gardens and marginal lands of classical Attica, the foundation of Nea Paphos, all in English, and, in French, La collone du Dôdékathéon à Délos (Reconstruction of the columns of the Temple of Twelve Gods on the island of Delos). The section on Greek-Danish Excavations in Aetolian Chalkis 1997-98 contains articles on the excavations on the hill of Haghia Triadha, geological investigations of the area, coins and roof tiles found there and the registration process of finds. Other articles discuss the final Neolithic pottery from the excavation at Pangali on the eastern slope of Mt. Varassova, in 1996 and the recent rescue excavation of the cemetary of Ancient Chalkis.
{
307pp,
210x275mm,
December 2006;
PB,
£21.25,
8772887230:9788772887234
, Aarhus University Press
} |
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE DANISH INSTITUTE AT ATHENS, VOLUME 4
[Jonas Eiring & Jørgen Mejer (eds)]
This is the fourth volume of the journal of the Danish Institute at Athens with articles in the fields of Greek archaeology, history, philology and literature. The present volume contains two philological articles: Alkibiades and The Phaedrus: The Politics of the Appetites by Doug Al-Maini, and The Platonic Corpus in Antiquity by Jørgen Mejer. Birte Lundgreen's article, Use and Abuse of Athena in Roman Imperial Portraiture: The Case of Julia Domna, discusses the uses of Imperial Roman portraiture, particularly in the eastern provinces. Anne Marie Carstens has investigated Rock-Cut Tombs in the Halikarnassos Peninsula in Asia Minor and highlights the regional character of burial customs in the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Death in Aetolia: The Hellenistic Graves at Aetolian Chalkis by Jonas Eiring also draws attention to the regionality of burial customs with examples from Western Greece. The article includes the publication of a multiple-burial, Early Hellenistic tomb in Aetolian Chalkis. From the same site, and in continuation of the reports published in Proceedings II and III, Greek-Danish Excavations in Aetolian Chalkis 1999-2001: Third Preliminary Report covers the three final seasons of the excavations at this site on the northern shore of the Gulf of Patras. A general account of the results of excavations, by Sanne Houby-Nielsen and Ioannis Moschos, is followed by the second article on the coins from the site, by Georgia Alexopoulou, and a detailed discussion of the shellfish found on site, by Kaj Strand Pedersen. It also contains a report by Efy Saranti on a Middle- and Late Helladic site in the nearby village of Gavrolimni, as well as an account of the Stone Age remains in the cave of Hagios Nikolaos by Lasse Sørensen.
{
258pp,
210x275mm,
December 2004;
PB,
£21.25,
8772887249:9788772887241
, Aarhus University Press
} |
 |
ROADS OF ANCIENT CYPRUS
[Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen]
The earliest roads in Cyprus go back to the Bronze Age, and by the end of the Hellenistic period the road network encircled the entire island. More roads were added and older roads rebuilt during the Roman period to serve the needs of the provincial administration as well as of the individual cities. This book, the first on its subject, traces the development of the Cypriot road network over a period of a thousand years, drawing on a combination of archaeological, epigraphic and literary sources. Separate chapters deal with travellers and life on the road, transport technology and the legal and administrative context of road building. It is often assumed that the primary purpose of Roman road building was military domination, but, as this study demonstrates, road development in Cyprus is best understood in terms of communication between cities and their territories and the day-to-day exchanges between town and countryside.
{
308pp,
155x230mm,
August 2004;
HB,
£35.00,
8772899565:9788772899565
, Museum Tusculanum Press
} |
 |
SALMAKIS INSCRIPTION & HELLENISTIC HALIKARNASSOS
[Signe Isager & Poul Pedersen]
In 1995 the Turkish authorities made an important discovery on the Salmakis Promontory west of the entrance to the harbour of Bodrum -- ancient Halikarnassos. Remains of walls and mosaic floors dating to Hellenistic and Roman times were found, and on one of the walls there was a well-preserved Greek inscription, now known as The Salmakis Inscription. The inscription was found to be a previously unknown Hellenistic poem in which Aphrodite reveals what Halikarnassos has to be proud of. Her poetic account includes famous authors born in Halikarnassos. The text leaves no doubt that the location of the inscription was the famous Salmakis Fountain inseparably connected to the name of Hermaphroditos. The unparalleled inscription aroused great interest and discussion when published. An international symposium was held at the Castle of St Peter in Bodrum, where specialists representing numismatics, ancient history, literature, philology, religion, epigraphy and archaeology offered their views on the inscription and its implications for our understanding of the Hellenistic world. This book contains the contributions to that symposium. Apart from studies directly concerning the Salmakis inscription there are other articles on Hellenistic Halikarnassos, partly based on already well known evidence partly on new material.
{
237pp,
215x280mm,
January 2004;
HB,
£23.30,
8778388236:9788778388230
, University Press of Southern Denmark
} |
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SURVEYING THE GREEK CHORA
: The Black Sea Region in a Comparative Perspective
[Pia Guldager Bilde & Vladimir Stolba (eds)]
This volume is the outcome of an international conference on landscape archaeology. It includes 15 contributions from participants from six different countries, who analyse the territories of the main ancient cities of the west, north and south coasts of the Black Sea region, discussing them also in a comparative, Mediterranean perspective. The particular aim of the conference was to join the forces of Eastern as well as Western researchers in establishing an overview of the relationship between the larger ancient cities and their territories. During the past 40 years this particular field of archaeology has developed into a highly specialised and sophisticated discipline. Based on a systematic sampling strategy, it aims at understanding regions beyond the individual site, frequently on a city-state, regional or landscape level. The methodological debate on this approach that is current in Mediterranean archaeology has, however, only had a limited impact so far on Black Sea region research, with most Western researchers still lacking a fundamental knowledge about Black Sea data and how they are generated.
REVIEW: "Overall, this is a highly successful volume, and the editors are to be commended for an interesting and worthwhile collection of articles, logically organized, and tightly edited. The contributions...are of great importance for the future of landscape archaeology. ...this book is an indispensable tool for students or scholars who wish to have a clear idea of the directions towards which modern archaeologists' and historians' scientific approaches are tending." -- Elias K. Petropoulos. BMCR, May, 2007.
{
346pp,
170x240mm,
September 2006;
HB,
£26.95,
8779342388:9788779342385
, Aarhus University Press
} |
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TRADE RELATIONS
: in the Eastern Mediterranean from the Late Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity -- The Ceramic Evidence
[Maria Berg Briese & Leif Erik Vaag (eds)]
This book focuses on trade and cultural interactions in the Eastern Mediterranean in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods, and discusses the extent to which these mechanisms can be traced from the ceramic evidence. Research in the Western Mediterranean has already yielded results that enable us to put forward theories of, not only trade patterns and trade mechanisms, but also more complex theories of the socio-economic realities of the Roman empire. In the West this has been made possible through the understanding of the different pottery sequences, through published kiln sites, through quantification of pottery and through revealed shipwrecks. However, things are different in the still less well-documented East, and it is of utmost importance that we now turn to this less explored part of the ancient world in order to gain a more profound understanding of the ancient trade. In the winter of 1998 junior and senior scholars of classical archaeology discussed the matter at an international seminar at Sandbjerg Manorhouse in Denmark. This book contains the contributions of this fruitful meeting.
{
256pp,
215x280mm,
January 2002;
HB,
£21.25,
8778389585:9788778389589
, University Press of Southern Denmark
} |
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TRANSPORT AMPHORAE & TRADE IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
: Acts of an International Colloquium at the Danish Institute of Athens, 26-29 September 2002
[Jonas Eiring & John Lund (eds)]
As Peacock and Williams have noted, amphorae provide us "not with an index of the transportation of goods, but with direct witness of the movement of certain foodstuffs which were of considerable economic importance ... It is hard to conceive of any archaeological material better suited to further our understanding of Roman trade". The same could be said with equal conviction about Hellenistic trade. However, while the study of transport amphorae was already an established discipline in the 19th century, it has traditionally focused on amphora stamps. Even in the 1970s, excavators in the eastern Mediterranean were still disregarding -- and even discarding -- unstamped fragments. Yet if amphora studies remain somewhat in the realm of epigraphy, they have also seen a great deal of activity in the last decade and drawn increasing attention from archaeologists, historians and other researchers. The present volume attests to this renewed interest, with more than 40 contributions, primarily in English, describing current researches and indicating which avenues of future investigation will likely prove most fruitful.
REVIEW: "Much more than just another volume of conference acts, Transport Amphorae and Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean is an important landmark about the actual knowledge and future trends in amphora studies." -- Stephan G. Schmid, Department of History of Art and Archaeology, University of Montpellier, France.
{
300pp,
March 2005;
HB,
£34.00,
8779341187:9788779341180
, Aarhus University Press
} |
 |
AMERICAN NATURALISM & GREEK PHILOSOPHY
[John P Anton]
In this in-depth examination of the relation between Greek philosophy and American naturalism, John P Anton assesses the various ways in which American philosophers found inspiration for a new philosophical perspective in Aristotle and other Greek philosophers.
{
320pp,
150x230mm,
November 2004;
HB,
£22.99,
1591022541:9781591022541
, Prometheus Books
} |
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ARISTOTLE & MODERNISM
: Aesthetic Affinities of T S Eliot, Wallace Stevens & Virginia Woolf
[Edna Rosenthal]
Examines literary modernism in its relation to the history of criticism by analysing the role of Aristotelian principles, primarily the notion of formal affectivism, in the critical writings of these three modernists who have invariably been thought to uphold incompatible aesthetic beliefs: whereas Eliot saw himself as a classicist modernist, Stevens and Woolf shared a marked anti-classicist stance. Despite their initially incompatible attitudes to literary history and criticism, this study discloses their convergence on the Aristotelian notion of formal affectivism, demonstrated through specific conceptual shifts. The main feature of the book is its originality of approach, which seeks a 'diachronic' solution to a 'synchronic' problem -- the debate about the Modern, reflected in the claims and counterclaims made by the modernists themselves and by subsequent literary critics and theorists. This methodology was largely dictated by the nature of the subject: the adversarial critical orientation of three modernists, who have never been studied as a group before, and the attempt to reconcile their differences by reconfiguring them in terms of the Aristotelian critical tradition. The author demonstrates conclusively how Eliot incorporated central Aristotelian dramatic principles into his view of literary history and criticism, and, similarly, how both Stevens and Woolf, through historically determined conceptual shifts, endorse and use formal affectivism and dramatic criteria, which, as may be expected, they almost never refer back to Aristotle or to his foremost modernist defender, Eliot.
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COMMENTARY ON ARISTOTLE'S NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
[Emidio Campi & Joseph C McLelland (eds)]
Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562) was a scriptural exegete, but also an Aristotelian philosopher. His voluminous commentaries on Old and New Testament books are complemented by this volume, the only one of its kind in his corpus. It provides a window into the complex world of early modern European philosophical translation and commentary, as well as the theology and ethics of the Reformed camp.
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COMMENTARY ON ARISTOTLE'S POLITICS
[Thomas Aquinas; Translated, with a Preface by Richard J Regan]
The first complete translation into modern English of Aquinas unfinished commentary on Aristotle's Politics, this translation follows the definitive Leonine text of Aquinas and moreover reproduces in English those passages of William of Moerbeke's famously accurate yet elliptical translation of the Politics from which Aquinas worked. Bekker numbers have been added to passages from Moerbeke's translation for easy reference.
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CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY
[Boethius; Translated by Joel Relihan]
REVIEW: "A strongly literary approach that other translations have tended to obscure or ignore..." -- Practical Philosophy, Spring 2002. ''Entirely faithful to Boethius' Latin; it makes the philosophy of the Consolation intelligible to students; it gives equal weight to the poetry -- in fact, Relihan's metrical translation of Boethius' metra are themselves contributions of the first moment to Boethian studies. Boethius finally has a translator equal to his prodigious talents and his manifold vision.''-- Joseph Pucci, Brown University.
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COSMOS & COGNITION
: Studies in Greek Philosophy
[Nicholas Rescher]
The six studies comprising this volume deal with some fundamental issues in early Greek thought: cosmic evaluation in Anaximander, the theory of opposites from the Pre-Socratics to Plato and Aristotle, thought experimentation in Pre-Socratic thought, the origins of Greek Scepticism among the Sophisists, the prehistory of 'Buridan's Ass' speculation, and the role of esthesis in Aristotle's theory of science. In each case the early discussion seeks to show how certain ideas bore unexpected fruit during the subsequent development of philosophical thought.
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DIOGENES THE CYNIC
[Luis E Navia]
In this comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and engaging book, philosopher Luis E. Navia undertakes the task of reconstructing Diogenes' life and extracting from him lessons that are valuable in our time.
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FIVE DIALOGUES
: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo -- 2nd Edition
[G M A Grube]
This second edition of 'Five Dialogues' presents Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for 'Plato: Complete Works'. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated bibliography.
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FOUNDATIONS OF SOCRATIC ETHICS
[Alfonso Gomez-Lobo]
Gomez-Lobo (Georgetown University) argues that behind the facade of Socratic irony lies a strictly deductive system of ethics suspended from twin axioms, one governing practical rationality and the other specifying the ingredients of the good life. But Plato, he says, tried to found Socrates' ethics on a metaphysical principle.
REVIEW: "An indisputably noble tome that touches base with all the obvious ingredients, it has much to commend it..." -- Practical Philosophy, Autumn 2002.
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INTRODUCTORY READINGS IN ANCIENT GREEK & ROMAN PHILOSOPHY
[C D C Reeve (ed)]
A reader for surveys in Ancient Philosophy that range from the Presocratics through the Romans, this anthology has as its cornerstone substantial selections from C D C Reeve’s 2004 translation of Plato’s Republic -- a translation that winningly casts the indirect dialogue of the Republic into direct speech -- and features as well other translations known for their dependability and accessibility, expert Introductions, and notes.
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LAWS
: Plato
Plato's fascinating dialogue about legislation and governance in an ideal state supposedly takes place among three travellers passing the time during a long journey by foot through the countryside of Crete. The participants in the conversation are an Athenian visitor, the dominant speaker; a citizen of Knossos, who along with nine other citizens has been commissioned by the state of Crete to found and administer government in a new colony; and a Spartan. After preliminary discussions about the education of youth; the means of instilling citizens with the cardinal virtues of justice, temperance, wisdom, and courage; and the necessity of basing laws on these virtues, the focus of the conversation turns to an elaboration of the particular laws that should be enacted in the new Cretan colony. Much of the remainder of the work consists of monologues by the Athenian, who is clearly Plato's spokesman, in which the details of setting up the government and of laws governing every aspect of life are painstakingly laid out. Plato covers a great deal of philosophical ground in this dialogue ranging from mundane, everyday affairs (marriage laws, sexual habits, crime and punishment, trade, slavery, and many other topics) to deep questions about the existence of the gods, the nature of the soul, and the problem of evil.
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MUSIC OF THE REPUBLIC
: Essays on Socrates' Conversations & Plato's Writings
[Eva Brann]
Offering more than simply an introduction to Plato's writings, these lucid essays explore the lure of philosophy for both the neophyte and seasoned scholar by presenting key philosophical dialogues and inviting readers to participate in the inquiry. Covered are such fundamental texts as "The Republic", "The Phaedo", and the account of Socrates' offence as presented in "The Apology". Other essays compare Plato's notion of time with Einstein's, discuss how to teach Plato to undergraduates, and contend that a thoughtful text-based examination of Plato can have personal impact. An instructor's eye for telling details makes this text useful for both students of Plato and Socrates and teachers looking to more skilfully unpack the arguments presented in the classic texts.
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NEOPLATONIC PHILOSOPHY
: Introductory Readings
[Translated, with Introduction by John Dillon & Lloyd P Gerson]
The most comprehensive collection of Neoplatonic writings available in English, this volume provides translations of the central texts of four major figures of the Neoplatonic tradition: Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus. The general Introduction gives an overview of the period and takes a brief but revealing look at the history of ancient philosophy from the viewpoint of the Neoplatonists. Historical background -- essential for understanding these powerful, difficult, and sometimes obscure thinkers -- is provided in extensive footnotes, which also include cross-references to other works relevant to particular passages.
REVIEW: "This is a valuable anthology which makes a selection of key Neoplatonic texts available in new, accurate, and readable translations..." -- Anne Sheppard, Senior Lecturer in Classics, Royal Holloway, University of London.
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NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
: Second Edition
[Aristotle; Translated by Terence Irwin]
The most influential ethical treatise ever written, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics offers accounts of human happiness and welfare; the nature of a good person; the psychology of action and character; the virtues of character and intellect; praise, blame, and moral responsibility; practical reason; weakness of will; self-interest and the interests of others; the role of friendship in the good life; and the relation between pleasure and goodness. This edition offers more aids to the reader than are found in any other modern English translation. It includes an Introduction; headings to help the reader follow the argument; explanatory notes on difficult or important passages; and a full glossary explaining Aristotle's technical terms. For this edition, the translation has been revised, and the notes and glossary expanded.
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OLDER SOPHISTS
: A Complete Translation by Several Hands of the Fragments in Die Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker Edited by Diels-Kranz with a New Edition of Antiphon & of Euthydemus
[Rosamond Kent Sprague (ed)]
This sourcebook, a corrected reprint of the University of South Carolina Press edition of 1972, contains a complete English translation of the sophist material collected in the critical edition of Diels-Krantz, as well as Euthydemus and a completely re-edited Antiphon.
REVIEW: "...This book, a welcome reprint of a 1972 work, will primarily be of interest to students of ancient philosophy. For them it contains much material not easily (or as cheaply) available elsewhere. However, it may also be recommended reading for at least two other constituencies. First, to those who read Plato, in order to provide the basis for a more balanced judgement of those whom he excoriates. Secondly, to contemporary philosophy practitioners to whom such as Roger Scruton have sought to apply, in a pejorative way, the label of 'sophist'..." -- Trevor Curnow, Practical Philosophy, July 2001.
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PHILOSOPHER-KINGS
: The Argument of Plato's Republic
[C D C Reeve]
A reprint of the Princeton University Press edition of 1988. Reeve's classic work provides an interpretation of Republic that makes a case for the coherence of Plato's argument.
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PLATO'S ION
: Philosophy as Peformance
[John Bremer]
This book contains the complete Greek text of Plato’s Ion, an English translation of it, and an in depth analysis. The Ion is one of the shortest of Plato’s dialogues and yet it raises two most critical questions. First, is there an art of “poetry as a whole,” that is, is there an art of words and, if so, what is its nature? All acts of language are poetic, and philosophy is impossible without them. Thus arises the second question: does philosophy itself exist only in the use of words, in the question and answer, in the interchange called dialectic. Dialectic is between people, so that it has an essentially social as well as an intellectual dimension, and it is while the conversation continues that philosophy fully exists; it lives in the performance. Ion performs Homer, and Plato (or his reader) performs Socrates. There are similarities -- for example, both have musical or metrical structures -- but there are also crucial differences -- Ion’s performance of Homer has hearers; Plato’s performance of Socrates has participants.
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PLATO ON LOVE
: Lysis Symposium, Phaedrus, Alcibiades, with Selections from Republic & Laws
[Plato; Edited by C D C Reeve]
This collection provides the essential readings for a course on Plato's views of sex and love, or a main component of more general courses on ideas of sex and love. Featured are the pre-eminent translations of Paul Woodruff, Alexander Nehamas, D S Hutchinson, Stanley Lombardo, and C D C Reeve. Reeve's general Introduction provides a wealth of historical information about Plato and Socrates, and the sexual norms of classical Athens. His introductory essay looks closely at the dialogues themselves and includes sections on the following topics: Socrates and the Art of Love; Socrates and Athenian Paiderastia; Loving Socrates; Love and the Assent to the Beautiful; The Art and Psychology of Love Explained; and Writing about Love. A selected bibliography is also included.
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PYTHAGORAS & THE PYTHAGOREANS
[Charles H Kahn]
A fascinating portrait of the Pythagorean tradition, including a substantial account of the Neo-Pythagorean revival, and ending with Johannes Kepler on the threshold of modernism. ''This book, written by one of the world's leading authorities on ancient philosophy, combines a lucid overview of the broad sweep of the Pythagorean tradition, appropriate for readers new to the subject, with new scholarly insights, which will make it essential reading for scholars as well. There really is no comparable up-to-date volume available in English. It is a wonderful book.'' -- Carl Huffman, DePauw University
REVIEW: "A most enjoyable and informative experience..." -- Practical Philosophy, Spring 2002.
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READING PLATO'S THEAETETUS
[Timothy Chappell]
This book intersperses philosophical commentary with a new translation of the whole dialogue to present an original case for thinking that Plato's aim in the Theaetetus is to further the cause of his own anti-empiricist theory of knowledge by testing -- and destroying -- a series of empiricist theories of knowledge.
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READINGS IN ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY, 3RD EDITION
: From Thales to Aristotle
[S Marc Cohen, Patricia Curd & C D C Reeve (eds)]
The rich selection of superbly translated and edited Presocratic fragments and testimonia, dialogues of Plato, and selections from Aristotle that has made Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy the preeminent anthology for the teaching of ancient Greek philosophy is now even richer: G M A Grube's translation of Plato's Phaedo and Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff's translation of Plato's Symposium are now both included in their entirety; in addition, the Third Edition features new translations by C D C Reeve of Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito.
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RENAISSANCE READING OF THE CORPUS ARISTOTELICUM
: Papers from the Conference Held in Copenhagen 23--25 April 1998
[Marianne Pade (ed)]
Aristotle is generally considered as a philosopher whose authority characterised the Middle Ages. However, in the sixteenth century alone, more works in Aristotle than throughout the preceding 1000 years were produced. Moreover, the medieval Latin translations were supplanted by new texts. Thus, the entire corpus was made accessible in contemporary Latin before 1600. The whole of Aristotle's oeuvre was subjected to the philosophical reorientation of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; eventually the new readings of his works influenced contemporary thought on dialectic, science, poetic etc. In thirteen articles, the authors discuss the changing interpretations of Aristotle's works and his influence in various disciplines, from Dante and until the seventeenth century.
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REPUBLIC
: The Odyssey of Philosophy
[Jacob Howland]
In the Republic, Plato addresses the deepest questions about the human soul and human community, the proper objects of worship and reverence, the nature of philosophy, and the relationship between the philosopher and the political community. As presented in the Republic, Socratic philosophising is eternally unfinished, paradoxical, and ambiguous. According to Jacob Howland, this openness allows for ever-fresh approaches to the questions Plato raises.
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REPUBLIC
[Plato; Translated from the New Standard Greek Text, with Introduction, by C D C Reeve]
This edition, translated from the New Standard Greek Text by C. D. C. Reeve, includes an Introduction, select bibliography, a synopsis of each book, a glossary of terms, a glossary and index of names, and a general index
REVIEW: "Taking full advantage of the new, standard text of the Republic, Reeve has given us a translation at once both accurate and limpid. Loving attention to detail and deep familiarity with Plato's thought are evident on every page. Reeve's brilliant decision to cast the dialogue into direct speech produces a compelling impression of immediacy unmatched by other English translations currently available..." -- Lloyd P Gerson, University of Toronto. "David Reeve's long and devoted engagement with Plato's Republic, evidenced in his highly-regarded revision of George Grube's translation, issues now in a completely new translation of his own. In this version, Socrates' narration of his conversation with Glaucon and Adeimantus et al is converted so far as possible into dramatically gripping and effective direct speech. Its increased accessibility promises to make it the number-one choice for undergraduate courses..." -- John Cooper, Princeton University.
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SATYRICON
[Petronius; Translated by Sarah Ruden]
This new Satyricon features not only a lively, new, annotated translation of the text, but also fresh, and accessible commentaries that discuss Petronius' masterpiece in terms of such topics as the identity of Petronius, the transmission of his manuscript, literary influences on the Satyricon, and the distinctive literary form of this work -- as well as such hallmarks of Roman life as oratory, sexual practices, households, dinner parties, religion, and philosophy. It offers, in short, a remarkably informative and engaging account of major aspects of Imperial Roman culture as seen through the prism of our first extant novel.
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SOCRATES
: A Life Examined
[Luis E Navia]
One of the most influential thinkers in the history of the West was Socrates of Athens (469-399 BCE). Literally, thousands of books and other works of art have been devoted to him, yet his character and the tenets of his philosophy remain elusive. Even his contemporaries had very different impressions of him, and since he himself left no writings to posterity, we can only wonder: Who was this man really? What ideas and ideals can be truthfully associated with him? What is the basis for the extraordinary influence he has exerted throughout history? Philosopher Luis E. Navia presents a compelling portrayal of Socrates in this very readable and well-researched book, which is both a biography of the man and an exploration of his ideas. Through a critical and documented study of the major ancient sources about Socrates -- in the writings of Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, and Aristotle -- Navia reconstructs a surprisingly consistent portrait of this enigmatic philosopher. He links Socrates' conviction that the unexamined life is not worth living with Immanuel Kant's later concept of an innate moral imperative as the only meaningful purpose of human existence. He highlights Socrates' unrelenting search for the essence and value of the soul as that aspect of his philosophical journey that animated and structured all his activities. Navia also considers Socrates' relationship with the Sophists, his stance vis-á-vis the religious beliefs and practices of his time, his view of the relationship between legality and morality, and the function of language in human life. Finally, he eloquently captures the Socratic legacy, which, over twenty-four centuries after his death, is still so urgently relevant today. Navia brings to life this perennially important philosopher, illuminating the relevance of his ideas for our modern world.
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STOLEN LEGACY
: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy
[George G M James]
Challenging the notion that civilisation started in Greece, this uncompromising classic attempts to prove that the true authors of Greek philosophy were not Greeks but Egyptians. The text asserts that the praise and honour blindly given to the Greeks for centuries rightfully belong to the people of Africa, and argues that the theft of this great African legacy led to the erroneous world opinion that the African continent has made no contribution to civilisation. Quoting such celebrated Greek scholars as Herodotus, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Thales, and Pythagoras, who admit to the influence of Egyptian studies in their work, this edition sheds new light on traditional philosophical and historical thought. Originally published in 1954, this book features a new introduction.
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SUBSTANTIAL KNOWLEDGE
: Aristotle's Metaphysics
[C D C Reeve]
In this groundbreaking work, C D C Reeve uses a fundamental problem -- the Primacy Dilemma -- to explore Aristotle's metaphysics, epistemology, dialectic, philosophy of mind, and theology in a new way. At a time when Aristotle is most often studied piecemeal, Reeve attempts to see him both in detail and as a whole, so that it is from detailed analysis of hundreds of particular passages, drawn from dozens of Aristotelian treatises, and translated in full that his overall picture of Aristotle emerges. Primarily a book for philosophers and advanced students with an interest in the fundamental problems with which Aristotle is grappling, the book's clear, non-technical and engaging style will appeal to any reader eager to explore Aristotle's difficult but extraordinarily rewarding thought.
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TIMAEUS
[Plato; Translated by Donald J Zeyl]
First published in Plato, Complete Works, Donald Zeyl's translation of Timaeus is presented here with his substantial introductory essay, which situates the dialogue in the development of Greek science, discusses points of contemporary interest in the Timaeus, deals at length with long-standing and current issues of interpretation, and provides a consecutive commentary on the work as a whole. Includes an analytic table of contents and a select bibliography.
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TRIAL & DEATH OF SOCRATES
: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Death Scene From Phaedo -- Third Edition
[Translated by G M A Grube; Revised by John M Cooper]
This third edition of 'The Trial and Death of Socrates' presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for 'Plato, Complete Works'. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with a Select Bibliography. John M. Cooper is Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University.
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TRIALS OF SOCRATES
: Six Classic Texts
[C D C Reeve (ed)]
This unique and expertly annotated collection of the classic accounts of Socrates left by Plato, Aristophanes, and Xenophon features new translations of Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and the death scene from Phaedo by C. D. C. Reeve, Peter Meineck's translation of Clouds, and James Doyle's translation of Apology of Socrates.
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WOMEN IN THE ACADEMY
: Dialogues on Themes From Plato's Republic
[C D C Reeve]
In the early fourth century BC, Plato founded his famous Athenian school, the Academy. Among the students who came to study there were two women, Axiothea of Phlius, who wore men's clothes, and Lasthenia of Mantinea. In five dialogues, inspired by those of Plato, Reeve imagines these women in conversation with one another, with Plato himself, and with their fellow Academician, Aristotle. The topics they discuss -- women, art, justice, freedom, and the nature of reality -- are all drawn from Plato's Republic. Their lively exchanges, which quickly engage the reader, are at once an exciting and accessible introduction to some of Republic's central themes and an exploration of some of the most controversial questions we face in trying to make sense of our complexly shared lives.
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