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The Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates by Peter E. Pormann
RRP: £28.99£24.82Hippocrates is a towering figure in Greek medicine. Dubbed the 'father of medicine', he has inspired generations of physicians over millennia in both the East and West. Despite this, little is known about him, and scholars have long debated his... -
Socrates: A Guide for the Perplexed by Sara Ahbel-Rappe 9780826433251
RRP: £21.99£21.89This book offers an introduction to Socrates, ideal for undergraduate students taking courses in Ancient and Greek Philosophy. Socrates is regarded as the founder of Western philosophical inquiry. Yet he left no writings and claimed to know 'nothing fine... -
Language by Stephen Everson 9780521357951
RRP: £42.99£36.72This third Companion To Ancient Thought is devoted to ancient theories of language. The chapters range over more than eight hundred years of philosophical enquiry, and provide critical analyses of all the principal accounts of how it is that language can... -
Fragments by Heraclitus 9781548591342
RRP: £5.99£4.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781548591342Author HeraclitusFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Sophists by Mauro Bonazzi
RRP: £16.99£14.71From Socrates and Plato onwards, the Sophists were often targeted by the authoritative philosophical tradition as being mere charlatans and poor teachers. This book, translated and significantly updated from its most recent Italian version (2nd edition,... -
Aristotle on Moral Responsibility: Character and Cause by Susan Sauvé Meyer 9780199697434
RRP: £37.99£37.88This is a reissue, with new introduction, of Susan Sauve Meyer's 1993 book, in which she presents a comprehensive examination of Aristotle's accounts of voluntariness in the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics. She makes the case that these constitute a... -
Works: v. 7 by Lucian
RRP: £24.95£24.54Antiquity'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 ... -
Augustine's Invention of the Inner Self: The Legacy of a Christian Platonist by Philip Cary 9780195158618
RRP: £26.99£20.94In this book, Phillip Cary argues that Augustine invented the concept of the self as a private inner space-a space into which one can enter and in which one can find God. Although it has often been suggested that Augustine in some way inaugurated the... -
Meditations: Thoughts to Myself by Nik Marcel 9781720520597
RRP: £11.41£9.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781720520597Author Nik MarcelFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Charmides by Christopher Moore 9781624667787
RRP: £13.99£11.83"Moore and Raymond's Charmides is very impressive. The translation is excellent, and the Introduction and notes guide the reader into thorny problems in a way that renders them understandable: e.g., how to translate sophrosune, why we should care about... -
The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 4 by Plato 9780300077292
RRP: £25.00£23.94Among Plato's later dialogues, the Parmenides is one of the most significant. Not only a document of profound philosophical importance in its own right, it also contributes to the understanding of Platonic dialogues that followed it, and it exhibits the... -
Year 1: A Philosophical Recounting by Susan Buck-Morss
RRP: £32.00£21.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262044875Author Susan Buck-MorssFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Aristotle: Metaphysics: Book Iota by Laura M. Castelli 9780199682997
£40.61The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, accompanied by incisive commentaries that focus on philosophical problems and issues. The volumes in the... -
The Ideals of Inquiry: An Ancient History by G. E. R. Lloyd
£29.72Long before science as we know it today existed, sophisticated studies of the external world were undertaken, notably in Mesopotamia, India, China, and Greece. G. E. R. Lloyd explores three interrelated issues concerning those investigations. This first... -
The Art of Poetry by Aristotle 9780198141105
£32.57The Art of PoetryBook InformationISBN 9780198141105Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 185mm * 123mm * 8mm -
Solon the Thinker: Political Thought in Archaic Athens by John David Lewis 9780715637289
£31.70In "Solon the Thinker" John Lewis presents the hypothesis that Solon saw Athens as a self-governing, self-supporting system akin to the early Greek conceptions of the cosmos. Solon's polis functions not through divine intervention but by its own internal... -
Plato Prehistorian: Myth, Religion, Archeology by Mary Settegast 9781584208976
RRP: £45.00£28.69In his Timaeus and Critias dialogues, Plato wrote of two ancient civilisations that flourished more than 9,000 years before his time. Socrates accepted the account as true, and modern archaeological techniques may yet prove him right. In Plato,... -
Works: v. 4 by Dio Chrysostom
RRP: £24.95£23.39The man with the golden mouth.Dio Cocceianus Chrysostomus (AD ca. 40-ca. 120), of Prusa in Bithynia, Asia Minor, inherited with his brothers large properties and debts from his generous father Pasicrates. He became a skilled rhetorician hostile to ... -
Galen: On Diseases and Symptoms by Galen 9780521300506
RRP: £39.99£33.26Galen's treatises on the classification and causation of diseases and symptoms are an important component of his prodigious oeuvre, forming a bridge between his theoretical works and his practical, clinical writings. As such, they remained an integral... -
Plato's Phaedrus: A Commentary for Greek Readers by P. Ryan 9780806142593
RRP: £21.95£21.26Composed in the fourth century b.c., the Phaedrus--a dialogue between Phaedrus and Socrates--deals ostensibly with love but develops into a wide-ranging discussion of such subjects as the pursuit of beauty, the nature of humanity, the immortality of the... -
Plato's Cratylus by David Sedley 9780521034029
RRP: £42.99£33.26Plato's Cratylus is a brilliant but enigmatic dialogue. It bears on a topic, the relation of language to knowledge, which has never ceased to be of central philosophical importance, but tackles it in ways which at times look alien to us. In this... -
Christian Philosophy in the Early Church by Anthony Meredith Sj
£26.43Written by a master of the subject with a long teaching experience, this book is a concise and accessible overview of the response of early Christian thought to classical philosophy and its integration into Christian theology.A concise and accessible... -
The Philosophy of Epictetus by Theodore Scaltsas 9780199585519
RRP: £37.99£30.70The Stoic philosopher Epictetus has been one of the most influential of ancient thinkers, both in antiquity itself and in modern times. Theodore Scaltsas and Andrew S. Mason present ten specially written papers which discuss Epictetus' thought on a wide... -
The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics by Allan Silverman
RRP: £52.00£41.03The Dialectic of Essence offers a systematic new account of Plato's metaphysics. Allan Silverman argues that the best way to make sense of the metaphysics as a whole is to examine carefully what Plato says about ousia (essence) from the Meno through the... -
Form without Matter: Empedocles and Aristotle on Color Perception by Mark Eli Kalderon 9780198717904
£94.39Mark Eli Kalderon presents an original study in the philosophy of perception written in the medium of historiography. He considers the phenomenology and metaphysics of sensory presentation through the examination of an ancient aporia. Specifically, he... -
Philosophy and Theurgy in Late Antiquity by Algis U'Zdavinys 9781621386346
£30.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621386346Author Algis U'ZdavinysFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 649gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Philosophical Life in Cicero's Letters by Sean McConnell
RRP: £30.99£22.85Cicero's letters are saturated with learned philosophical allusions and arguments. This innovative study shows just how fundamental these are for understanding Cicero's philosophical activities and for explaining the enduring interest of his ethical and... -
Plato's 'Republic': A Reader's Guide by Luke Purshouse 9780826474674
RRP: £22.99£22.85"Continuum's Reader's Guides" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to classic works of philosophy. Each book explores the major themes, historical and philosophical context and key passages of a major philosophical text, guiding the... -
Plato: Meno by Plato
RRP: £11.99£9.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585109937Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co -
Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy by Brad Inwood
RRP: £30.99£25.45Philosophers and doctors from the period immediately after Aristotle down to the second century CE were particularly focussed on the close relationships of soul and body; such relationships are particularly intimate when the soul is understood to be a... -
Plato: A Guide for the Perplexed by Gerald A. Press 9780826491763
£38.14It is widely agreed that Plato laid the foundations for the whole history of western thought and, well over 2000 years later, his work is still studied by every student of philosophy. Yet his thought and writings continue to evoke perplexity in readers;... -
Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease by Philip J. van der Eijk 9780521142977
RRP: £44.99£38.54This work brings together Philip van der Eijk's previously published essays on the close connections that existed between medicine and philosophy throughout antiquity. Medical authors such as the Hippocratic writers, Diocles, Galen, Soranus and Caelius... -
Five Great Dialogues of Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo by Plato 9780982129821
£8.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982129821Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Coyote Canyon PressPublisher Coyote Canyon PressWeight(grams) 186g -
Plato's Introduction of Forms by R. M. Dancy 9780521037181
RRP: £44.99£38.54Scholars of Plato are divided between those who emphasize the literature of the dialogues and those who emphasize the argument of the dialogues, and between those who see a development in the thought of the dialogues and those who do not. In this... -
Plato's "Symposium": A Reader's Guide by Thomas L. Cooksey 9780826444172
£25.45This is a student-friendly introduction to a key text in Ancient Philosophy. In many regards the dialectical counterpart of the "Republic, the Symposium" is one of the richest and most influential of the Platonic dialogues, resonating not only... -
Works: v. 1 by Dio Chrysostom
RRP: £24.95£23.39The man with the golden mouth.Dio Cocceianus Chrysostomus (AD ca. 40-ca. 120), of Prusa in Bithynia, Asia Minor, inherited with his brothers large properties and debts from his generous father Pasicrates. He became a skilled rhetorician hostile to... -
A Fortunate Storm: The Improbable Story of Stoicism: How it Came About and What it Says by Chuck Chakrapani 9780920219102
RRP: £7.95£6.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920219102Author Chuck ChakrapaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Stoic GymPublisher Stoic GymWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm -
The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought by Christopher Gill
£42.14Christopher Gill offers a new analysis of what is innovative in Hellenistic - especially Stoic and Epicurean - philosophical thinking about selfhood and personality. His wide-ranging discussion of Stoic and Epicurean ideas is illustrated by a more... -
Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy by Susanne Bobzien 9780198237945
£84.97Susanne Bobzien presents the definitive study of one of the most important intellectual legacies of the ancient Greek world: the Stoic theory of causal determinism. She identifies the main problems that the Stoics addressed and reconstructs the theory... -
Aristotle on Ontological Priority in the Categories by Ana Laura Edelhoff
RRP: £17.00£14.72The main objective of this Element is to reconstruct Aristotle's view on the nature of ontological priority in the Categories. Over the last three decades, investigations into ontological dependence and priority have become a major concern in...