Western Philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

This book offers a new description of the significance of Hesiod's 'myth of the races' for ancient Greek and Roman authors, showing how the most de...

This work re-examines the divisive wisdom that Paul addresses in 1 Corinthians. Challenging the recent consensus that the Corinthians' wisdom was r...

Through a series of interdisciplinary studies this book argues that the Athenians themselves invented the notion of 'classical' tragedy just a few ...

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece Thesmophoriazusae has long been recognized amongst the plays of Old Comedy for its deconstruction of tragic theatri...

This reading of Aristotle's Politics builds on the insight that the history of political philosophy is a series of configurations of nature and rea...

This is a collection of essays written by leading experts in honour of Christopher Rowe, and inspired by his groundbreaking work in the exegesis of...

Miller's study demonstrates the value of integrating hermeneutic reading and conceptual analysis. His interpretation works out in detail the purpos...

Several decades of scholarship have demonstrated that Roman thinkers developed in new and stimulating directions the systems of thought they inheri...

Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists examines numerous topics central to ancient Greek inquiries into the nature of the physical world, coverin...

This edition presents a radically improved text of Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers. The text is accompanied by a full critical app...

Aristotle's account of female nature has received mostly negative treatment, emphasising what he says females cannot do. Building on recent researc...

All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convin...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes in Greek and Roman science, medicine, mathematics and technology. A distinguished tea...

Proclus' commentary on Plato's dialogue Timaeus is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into e...

This book considers how 'affect', the experience of feeling or emotion, has developed as a critical concept within literary studies in different pe...

The Pythagorean Precepts by Aristotle's pupil, Aristoxenus of Tarentum, present the principles of the Pythagorean way of life that Plato praised in...

Aristotle argued that citizenship is like friendship, and this book applies his argument to modern society. Modern citizens may lack the concept of...

Greek culture matters because its unique pluralistic debate shaped modern discourses. This ground-breaking book explains this feature by retelling ...

Aristotle's claims that 'man is a political animal' and that political community 'exists for the sake of living well' have frequently been celebrat...

Atheism was the most foundational challenge to early-modern French certainties. Theologians and philosophers labelled such atheism as absurd, confi...

Contents: I. Eidos. II. Demon and Eros. III. Beyond Being. IV. The Academy. V. The Written Work. VI. Socrates in Plato. VII. Irony. VIII. Dialogue....

Western philosophy and science are responsible for constructing some powerful tools of investigation, aiming at discovering the truth, delivering r...

Cicero is increasingly recognised as a highly intelligent contributor to the ongoing ethical debates between Epicureans, Stoics and other schools. ...

One of a pair of books selected from Stanley Rosens career as a philosopher, scholar, and teacher over the last half of a century. They represent b...

The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotle's most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics - that happiness is the end of human e...

This book is the first extensive study of the role of the family in the work of Seneca. It offers a new way of reading philosophy that combines phi...

Did the ancient Greeks and Romans use psychoactive cannabis? Scholars say that hemp was commonplace in the ancient world, but there is no consensus...

Political communities are constituted through the representation of their own origin. The Iroquois and the Athenians is a philosophical exploratio...

What is the role of emotion in the scientific, philosophical, and literary works of Seneca the Younger? Scholarship on Seneca has often historicall...

Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. In a collection of thirty enjoyable essays, Stamatia Dova...

Sets itself the Herculean task of comparing and reconciling the modern and Platonic concepts of rationality. Modernity's break with the Middle Age...

A constitutionalist reading of Platos political thoughtPlato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what i...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Meditations, by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, is one of the definitive texts on Stoicism.In Meditations Taken ...

In this book, Mary Townsend proposes that, contrary to the current scholarship on Plato's Republic, Socrates does not in fact set out to prove the ...

Discover how the ancient wisdom of the Stoics provides the essential tools you need to navigate the modern world.'Relatable and inspiring ... Get r...

'Excellent. . . Sellars gives a lucid, easy-to-follow account of what Stoicism as a way of life amounts to, and how you might start to put it into ...

The first full in-depth analysis and interpretation of Plutarchs Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata in its entirety as a literary piece of art.Plut...

Alfred Hitchcocks Vertigo has dazzled and challenged audiences with its unique aesthetic design and startling plot devices since its release in 195...