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Laozi,
Daodejing

Grounded in a lifetime of research and interpretive work and informed by careful study of recent archeological discoveries of alternate versions of the text, Brook Ziporyn, one of the preeminent explicato…

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Plutarch,
How to Listen

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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The Cambridge Companion to Marcus Aurelius' Meditations

"This collection of essays on Marcus Aurelius' Meditations by leading experts brings out the key philosophical themes in the work and explains the central Stoic ideas standing behind Marcus' notebook…

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David Rondel
A Danger Which We Do Not Know

A Danger Which We Do Not Know tells a story about how philosophy and anxiety are tangled up with each other. David Rondel explores how anxiety is one of the main human contexts in which the inclination to…

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The Cambridge Companion to Marcus Aurelius' Meditations

"This collection of essays on Marcus Aurelius' Meditations by leading experts brings out the key philosophical themes in the work and explains the central Stoic ideas standing behind Marcus' notebook…

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Confucius,
The Analects

The Analects of Confucius has stood as the bedrock of Chinese culture for over 2,500 years, shaping the trajectory of human history in ways unmatched by nearly any other secular philosophy. But until now,…

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Adam Nicolson
How to Be

Nicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past. What is the nature of things? What is justice? How can I be myself? How should we treat each ot…

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Aristotle,
The Basic Works of Aristotle

Edited by Richard McKeon, with an introduction by C.D.C. ReevePreserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle's works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion f…

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Emily Clifford
Figuring Death in Classical Athens

Figuring Death in Classical Athens puts art and literature in conversation to explore how ancient Athenians grappled with the uncertainties of death. How did objects and texts generate thinking about what…

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Laozi,
DAO de Jing

This bold new translation by two brilliant poets offers a contemporary perspective on a timeless masterpiece of Daoist scripture, introducing Dao De Jing to a new audience while retaining the majesty of t…

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Marcus Tullius Cicero,
How to Find Happiness

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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Giacomo Marramao,
Kairós

Shedding new light on the fundamental philosophical problem of time, leading Italian philosopher Giacomo Marramao offers a solution to today's 24/7 culture.If we were asked to name the social syndrome of …

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Sophia Vasalou
Al-Ghazālī And the Ideal of Godlikeness

What might it mean to take God as a model for virtue? Al-Ghaz¿l¿ and the Ideal of Godlikeness investigates how Muslim thinkers developed the idea of imitating God across diverse cultural channels and how …

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Christine Vitrano
The Pursuit of Success

This book explores the question of what it means to live a successful life, arguing that both our commonsense and philosophical assumptions about success are misguided, for both focus on external achievem…

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Lex Paulson
Cicero and the People's Will

"This book tells an overlooked story in the history of the will, a contested idea in both politics and philosophy of mind. For it is Cicero, statesman and philosopher, who gives shape to the notion o…

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Melissa Lane
Of Rule and Office

A constitutionalist reading of Plato's political thoughtPlato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule? In this study, Melissa Lane reveals how politica…

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Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies

"Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies provides a new analysis of the significance of time in Classical and early modern literature, demonstrating that literary temporality continually intervenes in quest…

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Thomas J Nelson, Giuseppe Pezzini, Stefano Rebeggiani
Pergamon and Rome: Culture, Identity, and Influence

The first comprehensive study of Rome's relationship with the kingdom and city of Pergamon (modern-day Bergama in Turkey) from the late third century BC to the fourth century AD across multiple cultural s…

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Pablo Of Texcoco,
How to Be Grateful

A delightful Aztec work that has much to teach us about the value of giving thanks---to our contemporaries, our elders, and our ancestorsCenturies before anyone ever thought of keeping a gratitude journal…

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Silvia Montiglio
Schadenfreude and Its Wicked Delights in Ancient Greece

This volume explores the significance of schadenfreude in Greek literature and culture from the archaic period to the second century CE. It examines how schadenfreude works, what purposes it serves within…

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