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Philosophy before the Greeks: The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia by Marc van de Mieroop
RRP: £22.00£16.99There is a growing recognition that philosophy isn't unique to the West, that it didn't begin only with the classical Greeks, and that Greek philosophy was influenced by Near Eastern traditions. Yet even today there is a widespread assumption that what... -
Augustine and Tradition: Influences, Contexts, Legacy by David G Hunter
RRP: £64.99£40.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802876997Author David G HunterFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co -
Orations, Volume II by Aelius Aristides
RRP: £24.95£22.92Meticulous eloquence.Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus was among the most celebrated, versatile, and influential authors of the Second Sophistic era and an important figure in the transmission of Hellenism. Born to wealthy landowners in Mysia in AD 117,... -
Wisdom from the Ancients by Emilie Savage-Smith 9781851246144
RRP: £14.99£11.58Words of wisdom and advice for leading a good life have long been part of society, handed down from one generation to the next. Plenty of these wise observations originated from the philosophers of Ancient Greece and Rome, and went on to circulate... -
De Oratore: v. 1 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£22.92The philosopher-statesman on ethics and rhetoric.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise,... -
A History of Western Philosophy: From the Pre-Socratics to Postmodernism by C. Stephen Evans 9780830852222
RRP: £50.99£36.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852222Author C. Stephen EvansFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 1016gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 163mm *... -
Jacques Derrida: Basic Writings by Barry Stocker
RRP: £37.99£33.78One of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth-century, Jacques Derrida's ideas on deconstruction have had a lasting impact on philosophy, literature and cultural studies.Jacques Derrida: Basic Writings is the first anthology to... -
Apologia. Florida. De Deo Socratis by Apuleius
RRP: £24.95£22.92Oratory and philosophy from a Latin novelist.Apuleius, one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was born ca. AD 125 in Madauros to a politically prominent family and received an elite education in the provincial capital Carthage and at Athens,... -
Metaphysics: An Introduction to Contemporary Debates and Their History by Anna Marmodoro 9780190941628
RRP: £18.49£16.92This volume introduces readers to a selected number of core issues in metaphysics that have been central in the history of philosophy and remain foundational to contemporary debates, that is: substances; properties; modality and essence; causality;... -
Cicero: On the Commonwealth and On the Laws by James E. G. Zetzel
RRP: £20.99£18.09Cicero's On the Commonwealth and On the Laws were his first and most substantial attempts to adapt Greek theories of political life to the circumstances of the Roman Republic. They represent Cicero's understanding of government and remain his most... -
Head and Hand in Ancient Greece: Four Studies in the Social Relations of Thought by Benjamin Farrington 9780851246543
RRP: £10.99£10.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851246543Author Benjamin FarringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksWeight(grams) 227g -
Civil War by Lucan 9780143106234
RRP: £12.99£12.13This is 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 colourful and powerful figures of the age -... -
Plato: The Symposium by M. C. Howatson
RRP: £18.99£16.18Plato's Symposium, written in the early part of the 4th century BC, is set at a drinking party (symposium) attended by some of the leading intellectuals of the day, including Aristophanes, the comic dramatist, Socrates, Plato's mentor, and Alcibiades,... -
The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire by Shadi Bartsch 9780226038353
RRP: £80.00£77.01People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone - or oneself - was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic element... -
The Greek Sophists by John Dillon
RRP: £14.99£10.95By mid-5th century BC, Athens was governed by democratic rule and power turned upon the ability of the citizen to command the attention of the people, and to sway the crowds of the assembly. It was the Sophists who understood the art of rhetoric and the... -
Plotinus by Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson
RRP: £25.99£22.63Plotinus (AD 205-270) was the founder of Neoplatonism, whose thought has had a profound influence on medieval philosophy, and on Western philosophy more broadly. In this engaging book, Eyjolfur K. Emilsson introduces and explains the full spectrum of... -
Aristotle for Everybody by Mortimer J. Adler
£11.35Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) taught logic to Alexander the Great and, by virtue of his philosophical works, to every philosopher since, from Marcus Aurelius, to Thomas Aquinas, to Mortimer J. Adler. Now Adler instructs the world in the "uncommon common... -
Philosophy 101 by Socrates: An Introduction to Philosophy Via Plato's Apology by Peter Kreeft
RRP: £10.00£9.80Philosophy means "the love of wisdom." Kreeft uses the dialogues of Socrates to help the reader grow in that love. He says that no master of the art of philosophizing has ever been more simple, clear, and accessible to beginners as has Socrates. He... -
Daodejing by Laozi 9781324092476
RRP: £21.99£17.54Grounded in a lifetime of research and interpretive work and informed by careful study of recent archaeological discoveries of alternate versions of the text, Brook Ziporyn, one of the preeminent explicators of Eastern religions in English, brings us a... -
On Sophistical Refutations: v. 3: On Comin to Be Passing Away - On the Cosmos by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.88Fallacies, contraries, consistencies.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three... -
Greek Models of Mind and Self by Anthony A. Long 9780674729032
RRP: £35.95£28.41This lively book offers a wide-ranging study of Greek notions of mind and human selfhood from Homer through Plotinus. A. A. Long anchors his discussion in questions of recurrent and universal interest. What happens to us when we die? How is the mind or... -
Charmides by Plato
RRP: £24.95£22.92Mostly doubtful dialogues.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; ... -
Aristotle on Inquiry: Erotetic Frameworks and Domain-Specific Norms by James G. Lennox 9781009382557
£27.40Aristotle is a rarity in the history of philosophy and science - he is a towering figure in the history of both disciplines. Moreover, he devoted a great deal of philosophical attention to the nature of scientific knowledge. How then do his philosophical... -
The Laws: Bks. I-VI by Plato
RRP: £24.95£22.92Final thoughts on an ideal constitution.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is... -
Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World by III Radcliffe G. G. Edmonds III
RRP: £35.00£27.21An unparalleled exploration of magic in the Greco-Roman worldWhat did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Romans not only imagine what magic could do, but also use it to try to influence the world around them? In... -
How to Keep an Open Mind: An Ancient Guide to Thinking Like a Skeptic by Richard Bett 9780691206042
RRP: £13.99£10.99How ancient skepticism can help you attain tranquility by learning to suspend judgmentAlong with Stoicism and Epicureanism, Skepticism is one of the three major schools of ancient Greek philosophy that claim to offer a way of living as well as thinking... -
Marcus Aurelius: 100 Quotes on Strength and Honour (Meditations) by Marcus Aurelius 9781536963755
RRP: £5.99£5.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781536963755Author Marcus AureliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Aristoxenus of Tarentum: Texts and Discussion by Carl A. Huffman
RRP: £135.00£117.68Aristoxenus of Tarentum was reported to have been bitterly disappointed when Theophrastus was chosen instead of him to succeed Aristotle as the head of the Peripatetic School. He had a truly phenomenal output of some 453 volumes, most of which survive... -
Theophrastus: "Characters", "Herodas Mimes", "Sophron" and Other Mime Fragments by Theophrastus
RRP: £24.95£22.92Dramatis personae.This volume collects important examples of Greek literary portraiture. The Characters of Theophrastus consists of thirty fictional sketches of men who are each dominated by a single fault, such as arrogance, boorishness, or superstition... -
The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece by Marcel Detienne
RRP: £18.99£14.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299861Author Marcel DetienneFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm -
Laws: Bks. VII-XII by Plato
RRP: £24.95£22.92Final thoughts on an ideal constitution.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is... -
How to Drink: A Classical Guide to the Art of Imbibing by Vincent Obsopoeus 9780691192147
RRP: £13.99£11.15A spirited new translation of a forgotten classic, shot through with timeless wisdom Is there an art to drinking alcohol? Can drinking ever be a virtue? The Renaissance humanist and neoclassical poet Vincent Obsopoeus (ca. 1498-1539) thought so. In the... -
Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy behind the Military Mind by Nancy Sherman 9780195315912
£22.56While few soldiers may have read the works of Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius, it is undoubtedly true that the ancient philosophy known as Stoicism guides the actions of many in the military. Soldiers and seamen learn early in their training "to suck it... -
Naturales Quaestiones: v. 2: Bks.IV-VII by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £24.95£22.92Following nature in pursuit of ethics.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making,... -
Plato's Podcasts: The Ancients' Guide to Modern Living by Mark Vernon
RRP: £8.99£6.65Do you ever get the feeling that something went wrong? What with credit crunches, wars, congestion charges, and unemployment, it is natural to hark back to less complicated times. In this witty and inspiring book, Mark Vernon does just that. However, we... -
The Archaeology of the Soul: Platonic Readings in Ancient Poetry and Philosophy by Seth Benardete
RRP: £46.00£44.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587310331Author Seth BenardeteFormat HardbackPage Count 383Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 726g -
Platonic Theology: v.1: Books 1-4 by Marsilio Ficino
RRP: £29.95£23.19The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic schools of... -
Works: v. 7 by Lucian
RRP: £24.95£23.74Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful traveling lecturer before settling in Athens and ... -
On Happiness by Epicurus
RRP: £6.99£4.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788883924Author EpicurusFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
The Statesman by Plato
RRP: £24.95£22.92On politics, pleasure, and poetry.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is...