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  • The Message of Plato (RLE: Plato)

    A Re-Interpretation of the Republic

    by Edward Urwick ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Plato
    Edward Urwick’s original work draws upon Plato’s best known work, the Republic, to provide a new interpretation of Plato’s teaching based upon Indian religious thought. Most scholars have sought to interpret the Republic from the standpoint of politics, ethics, and metaphysics and indeed the accepted title of the dialogue – Concerning a Polity or Republic – would seem to legitimate this. Even the ... Read more

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  • A Guide to Stoicism

    by St. George William Joseph Stock ...
    If you strip Stoicism of its paradoxes and its wilful misuse of language, what is left is simply the moral philosophy of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, dashed with the physics of Heraclitus. Stoicism was not so much a new doctrine as the form under which the old Greek philosophy finally presented itself to the world at large. It owed its popularity in some measure to its extravagance. A great deal ... Read more

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  • How to profit by one's enemies

    by Plutarch ...
    Series series Easy Reading
    Who among us does not have rivals? Plutarch writes about it as easily as only great communicators do, and explains how to treat those who are not on our side. In "De capienda former inimicis utilitate": "How to profit by one’s enemies," the great philosopher introduces his thought with irony but also with overwhelming logic, revealing an infallible system for winning in a confrontation with one’s ... Read more

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  • Civil War

    Translated by Matthew Fox ...
    by Matthew Fox, Ethan Adams, Lucan ...
    A magnificent new translation of the enduring epic about the sundering of the Roman Republic.Lucan lived from 39-65 AD at a time of great turbulence in Rome. His Civil War portrays two of the most colorful and powerful figures of the age-Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great, enemies in a vicious struggle for power that severed bloodlines and began the transformation of Roman civilization. With Right ... Read more

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  • Stoic Ethics

    Epictetus and Happiness as Freedom

    by William O. Stephens ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Ancient Philosophy
    Soon after Aristotle's death, several schools of ancient philosophy arose, each addressing the practical question of how to live a good, happy life. The two biggest rivals, Stoicism and Epicureanism, came to dominate the philosophical landscape for the next 500 years. Epicureans advised pursuing pleasure to be happy, and Stoics held that true happiness could only be achieved by living according to ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Selected Dialogues of Plato

    The Benjamin Jowett Translation

    by Plato ...
    Translated by Benjamin Jowett ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato have long been classics in their own right. In this volume, Professor Hayden Pelliccia has revised Jowett's renderings of five keydialogues, giving us a modern Plato faithful to both Jowett's best features and Plato's own masterly style.Gathered here are many of Plato's liveliest and richest texts. Ion takes up the question of poetry and introduces the ... Read more

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  • On Prophesying by Dreams (Illustrated Edition)

    by Aristotle ...
    Along with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) is one of the triumvirate of philosophers responsible for the establishment of Western philosophy as it exists today. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were among the first to refine philosophical thought, and Socrates is credited with devising the Socratic Method as a way to argue and debate points rationally. The Ancient Greek philosophers ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Plato

    Edited by Richard Kraut ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Plato stands as the fount of our philosophical tradition, being the first Western thinker to produce a body of writing that touches upon a wide range of topics still discussed by philosophers today. In a sense he invented philosophy as a distinct subject, for although many of these topics were discussed by his intellectual predecessors and contemporaries, he was the first to bring them together by ... Read more

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  • The Teaching of Epictetus

    by Epictetus ...
    "The Teaching of Epictetus" is a book that compiles the lectures and teachings of the ancient Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus, as transcribed by his pupil Arrian. The book is structured as a series of dialogues between Epictetus and his students, and it covers a wide range of topics related to Stoic philosophy, including ethics, morality, personal conduct, and the nature of the world.Epictetus ... Read more

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  • OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 31 and 34

    Greek Religion and Democracy and the Athenians

    by Athina Mitropoulos, Tim Morrison, James Renshaw, Dr Julietta Steinhauer ...
    This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 31 and 34 from the 'Beliefs and Ideas' Component Group:Greek Religion by Athina Mitropoulos and Julietta SteinhauerDemocracy and the Athenians by Tim Morrison and James RenshawWhy was worshipping the gods so important to ancient Greek life? To ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Morals

    by Plutarch ...
    Plutarch was a man of letters of unlimited curiosity; his overall subject, worked out across innumerable essays, dialogues, letters, speeches, and stories, is nothing less than life itself. As such, he provides an invaluable glimpse into a full cross-section of the classical world. He is not an original thinker, but he dissects the thought with which he was familiar with humility, care, and ... Read more

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  • The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter (Illustrated and Annotated)

    by Petronius Arbiter ...
    The Satyricon, or Satyricon liber ("The Book of Satyrlike Adventures), is a Latin book of fiction believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as a certain Titus Petronius. The Satyricon is an example of Menippean satire, which is very different from the formal verse satire of Juvenal or Horace. The work contains a mixture of prose and ... Read more

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