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Stephen P Sims
The City Among Cities

An original interpretation of Aristotle's political thought focusing on war and peace.With the post-Cold War international order under stress, Stephen P. Sims reconsiders the relationship between war, pea…

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Augustine's 'Confessions'

Augustine's Confessions, written between AD 394 and 400, is an autobiographical work which outlines his youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is one of the great texts of Late Antiquity, the first …

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Robin Waterfield
Plato of Athens

This book, the first ever biography of the father of philosophy, tracks Plato's life from his childhood in war-torn Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE to his founding of the Academy, adventures in…

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Michael Pope
Lucretius and the End of Masculinity

From beginning to end, the De rerum natura upsets expectations. This book's premise is that Lucretius intentionally provokes his imagined male audience, playfully and forcefully proving to them that they …

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Martina Russo
Flattery in Seneca the Younger

Flattery in Seneca the Younger explores the discourse of flattery in Seneca's philosophical texts, and analyses the extent to which Seneca developed a theory of adulation. Martina Russo maps a phenomenolo…

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J J Mulhern
Aristotle's Political Terminology

"Comprehensive examination of the different senses in which Aristotle uses a a group of the most important political expressions in his political writings, with the aim of making possible a firmer un…

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Christopher Bruell,
Christopher Bruell

Brings together the most remarkable essays on classical and modern philosophy by noted political philosopher Christopher Bruell.Christopher Bruell (1942-2024) was one of the great modern interpreters of c…

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Vojt& Hladký
On the Gods and the World

A new interpretation of the Derveni papyrus, an important testimony of intellectual life in Greece of late fourth century BCE, which combines subjects from ancient religious thought, allegorical explanati…

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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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Seneca,
How to Live

A vivid new translation in which the Stoic philosopher argues that virtue is the only path to contentmentWhy are so many people unhappy when happiness can be attained by anyone who simply lives virtuously…

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Steven B Cowan, Graham Oppy, David Apolloni, Shyam Ranganathan
Life After Death

Presents four distinct perspectives on life after death.

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James O Young, Michel-Antoine Xhignesse
Anne Le Févre Dacier: Of the Causes of the Corruption of Taste

Anne Le Fèvre Dacier (1645-1720) was the most important woman of letters of her time and Of the Causes of the Corruption of Taste is her most influential work. Dacier in several ways she anticipated and l…

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Ward Farnsworth
Estoico Practicante, El

See more clearly, live more wisely, and bear the burdens of this life with greater ease―here are the greatest insights of the Stoics, in their own words. Presented in twelve lessons, Ward Farnsworth syste…

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Lee C. Barrett
Kierkegaard's Two Ages

This Element explores Kierkegaard's Two Ages, his literary review of a contemporary novella, situating it in the context of his other writings from the same period of his life and his cultural/political c…

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Ioannis Trisokkas
Hegel and Heidegger on Time

This Element discusses Heidegger's early (1924-1931) reading and critique of Hegel, revolving around the topic of time. The standard view is Heidegger distances himself from Hegel by arguing that whereas …

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Platonic Autonomy

Analyses Plato's notion of personal autonomy in its philosophical and historical context. Questions an exclusively individualistic account and argues that the autonomous subject is a unified agent who in …

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Cicero's Tusculan Disputations

Cicero composed the Tusculan Disputations in the summer of 45 BC at a time of great personal and political turmoil. He was grieving for the death of his daughter Tullia earlier that year, while Caesar's d…

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Greg Beabout, Mike Hannis
Ethics

What is a good life, and how is it related to a happy one? What are virtues, and how do they affect the nature of friendships? Is there really an ancient art that develops good character? In this compact …

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Dominic Scott
Contemplation and Society in Plato and Aristotle

This Element concerns the civic value of contemplation in Plato and Aristotle: how does intellectual contemplation contribute to the happiness of the ideal state? The texts discussed include the Republic,…

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Dominic Scott
Contemplation and Society in Plato and Aristotle

This Element concerns the civic value of contemplation in Plato and Aristotle: how does intellectual contemplation contribute to the happiness of the ideal state? The texts discussed include the Republic,…

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