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Naturales Quaestiones: v. 2: Bks.IV-VII by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £24.95£23.39Following 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,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics by Christopher Bobonich
RRP: £30.99£24.80The field of ancient Greek ethics is increasingly emerging as a major branch of philosophical enquiry, and students and scholars of ancient philosophy will find this Companion to be a rich and invaluable guide to the themes and movements which... -
How to Tell a Joke: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £14.99£11.70Timeless advice about how to use humor to win over any audienceCan jokes win a hostile room, a hopeless argument, or even an election? You bet they can, according to Cicero, and he knew what he was talking about. One of Rome's greatest politicians,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Ronald Polansky 9780521122733
RRP: £34.99£26.83Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the first and arguably most important treatise on ethics in Western philosophy. It remains to this day a compelling reflection on the best sort of human life and continues to inspire contemporary thought and debate. This... -
Against the Academicians and The Teacher by Augustine 9780872202122
RRP: £17.99£14.91These new translations of two treatises dealing with the possibility and nature of knowledge in the face of skeptical challenges are the first to be rendered from the Latin critical edition, the first to be made specifically with a philosophical audience... -
The Hellenistic Philosophers: Volume 2: Greek and Latin Texts with Notes and Bibliography by A. A. Long
RRP: £45.99£40.73This comprehensive sourcebook makes available in the original Latin and Greek the principal extant texts required for the study of the Stoic, Epicurean and sceptical schools of philosophy. The material is organised by schools, and within each school... -
Plato's Meno by Dominic Scott 9780521104685
RRP: £30.99£25.45Given its brevity, Plato's Meno covers an astonishingly wide array of topics: politics, education, virtue, definition, philosophical method, mathematics, the nature and acquisition of knowledge and immortality. Its treatment of these, though profound, is... -
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius 9781420970241
£13.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420970241Author Diogenes LaertiusFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality by Sarah Nooter 9780691248615
RRP: £14.99£12.09An irresistible anthology of ancient Greek writings that explore queer desire and loveEros, limb-loosening, whirls me about again,that bittersweet, implacable creature.—SapphoThe idea of sexual fluidity may seem new, but it is at least as old as the... -
Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments by Heraclitus 9780521136679
RRP: £46.99£38.14This work provides a text and an extended study of those fragments of Heraclitus' philosophical utterances whose subject is the world as a whole rather than man and his part in it. Professor Kirk discusses fully the fragments which he finds genuine and... -
The Laws: Bks. I-VI by Plato
RRP: £24.95£23.39Final 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... -
Marcus Aurelius in Love by Marcus Aurelius 9780226378114
RRP: £23.00£22.13In 1815 a manuscript containing one of the long-lost treasures of antiquity was discovered-the letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, reputed to have been one of the greatest Roman orators. But this find disappointed many nineteenth-century readers, who had... -
The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault by Alexander Nehamas
RRP: £27.00£21.06For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an 'art of living'. This practical aspect of philosophy has been much less dominant in modernity than it was in ancient Greece and Rome, when philosophers of... -
Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus by John M. Cooper 9780691159706
RRP: £25.00£19.99This is a major reinterpretation of ancient philosophy that recovers the long Greek and Roman tradition of philosophy as a complete way of life--and not simply an intellectual discipline. Distinguished philosopher John Cooper traces how, for many ancient... -
Cratylus by Plato 9780872204164
RRP: £17.99£14.91"It is. . . remarkable that Reeve's is the first new English translation since Fowler's Loeb edition of 1926. Fortunately, Reeve has done an excellent job. His version is not slavishly literal but is in general very accurate. It is also very clear and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy by David Sedley 9780521775038
RRP: £30.99£25.40The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy is a wide-ranging 2003 introduction to the study of philosophy in the ancient world. A team of leading specialists surveys the developments of the period and evaluates a comprehensive series of major... -
Hardship and Happiness by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £80.00£76.61Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new... -
Laws: Bks. VII-XII by Plato
RRP: £24.95£23.39Final 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 Give: An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving by Seneca
RRP: £13.99£11.42Timeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher SenecaTo give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do-but it is also the closest you can come to divinity. So argues the great Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4... -
Philebus by Plato 9780872201705
RRP: £10.99£9.59This translation by Dorothea Frede of Plato's dialogue on the nature of pleasure and its relation to thought and knowledge achieves a high standard of readability and fidelity to the Greek text. The volume includes a cogent introduction, notes, and... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume IX: Sophists, Part 2 by Andre Laks
RRP: £24.95£23.39A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VIII: Sophists, Part 1 by Andre Laks
RRP: £24.95£23.39A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
The Philosophy of Aristotle by Aristotle 9780451531759
RRP: £8.95£5.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531759Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 252gDimensions(mm) 171mm * 105mm * 21mm -
Plato's 'Phaedo' by David Bostock 9780198249184
RRP: £56.00£48.81David Bostock examines the theories and arguments put forward by Plato in his Phaedo, in which he attempts to show that the soul is immortal. This excellent introduction to Plato's often difficult arguments discusses such important philosophical problems... -
Against the Professors by Empiricus Sextus
RRP: £24.95£23.39A suspicious mind.Sextus Empiricus (ca. AD 160-210), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher, pupil and successor of the medical sceptic Herodotus (not the historian) of Tarsus. He probably lived for... -
The Greeks and the Irrational by E. R. Dodds 9780520242302
RRP: £30.00£23.29In this philosophy classic, which was first published in 1951, E.R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology and psychology, Dodds asks, 'Why should we attribute... -
The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism by James Warren
RRP: £26.99£22.40This Companion presents both an introduction to the history of the ancient philosophical school of Epicureanism and also a critical account of the major areas of its philosophical interest. Chapters span the school's history from the early Hellenistic... -
The Stoic Idea of the City by Malcolm Schofield
RRP: £30.00£29.25The Stoic Idea of the City offers the first systematic analysis of the Stoic school, concentrating on Zeno's Republic. Renowned classical scholar Malcolm Schofield brings together scattered and underused textual evidence, examining the Stoic ideals that... -
Damascius' Philosophy of Time by Pantelis Golitsis 9783111053189
RRP: £27.00£20.27The late Platonist philosopher Damascius both reassumed and rejuvenated the rich and long-established Greek thinking about time. In distinguishing between different perceptions of time, by Plato, Aristotle and his Neoplatonist predecessors, Damascius... -
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl R. Popper
RRP: £25.00£19.99A landmark defense of democracy that has been hailed as one of the most important books of the twentieth centuryOne of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy... -
Metaphysics: Bks.1-9 by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.39First things.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 years at the court of... -
Aristotle's Theory of Bodies by Christian Pfeiffer 9780198779728
£75.18Christian Pfeiffer explores an important, but neglected topic in Aristotle's theoretical philosophy: the theory of bodies. A body is a three-dimensionally extended and continuous magnitude bounded by surfaces. This notion is distinct from the notion of a... -
Aristotle: Topics Book VI by Dr Annamaria Schiaparelli 9780199609765
RRP: £25.00£22.54This volume presents a new translation of Aristotle's Topics Book VI by Annamaria Schiaparelli, accompanied by a detailed commentary and textual notes providing insight into the history of the transmission of the text with its variants. In the Topics,... -
Orations, Volume II by Aelius Aristides
RRP: £24.95£23.39Meticulous 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,... -
How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic by Sallust 9780691212364
RRP: £13.99£9.90An energetic new translation of an ancient Roman masterpiece about a failed coup led by a corrupt and charismatic politicianIn 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman Republic, the aristocrat Catiline tried to topple its... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought by Stephen M. Salkever
RRP: £30.99£26.77The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought provides a guide to understanding the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought, from Homer through the Stoics and Epicureans. Composed of essays specially commissioned for... -
Platonist Philosophy 80 BC to AD 250: An Introduction and Collection of Sources in Translation by George Boys-Stones 9780521547390
RRP: £34.99£30.73'Middle' Platonism has some claim to be the single most influential philosophical movement of the last two thousand years, as the common background to 'Neoplatonism' and the early development of Christian theology. This book breaks with the tradition of... -
Philosophy and Leadership: Three Classical Models and Cases Brent Cusher 9781032046099
RRP: £17.99£16.04Today, managers, politicians, educators, and healthcare providers are highly skilled technicians who navigate modern systems. However, followers seek more than know-how; they desire moral leadership. Even leaders equipped with skills must make difficult... -
The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece by Josiah Ober 9780691173146
RRP: £16.99£12.70Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly... -
Seneca: De Clementia by Susanna Braund 9780199607808
RRP: £49.49£49.40Soon after Nero's accession in 54 CE, his tutor, the philosopher Seneca, addressed to his young pupil an essay called De Clementia in which he offered advice on how to behave in his new role. This is the first full philological edition of the De...