Western Philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

Socrates' trial and death together form an iconic moment in Western civilization. The picture we have of it - created by his immediate followers an...

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial leng...

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial leng...

This book elucidates the poetics of Philodemus of Gadara, a first century BCE Epicurean philosopher and poet, whose On Poems survives in extensive ...

This book is a philosophical study of two major thinkers who span the period of late antiquity. While Plotinus stands at the beginning of its philo...

Intoxication in the Ancient Greek and Roman World considers the psychotropic plants used in the ancient world and ancient attitudes towards intoxic...

Mankinds constant struggle with physical as well as mental weaknesses is omnipresent in ancient literature: misconduct, wrongdoing, failure and ex...