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The Greek Anthology: v. 2 by W. R. Paton
RRP: £24.95£22.92A gathering of poetic blossoms.The Greek Anthology (literally, "Gathering of Flowers") is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually not epigrammatic) by about 300 composers. To the collection (called... -
Seneca Epistulae Vol. I by Leighton Reynolds 9780198146445
£28.38Seneca Epistulae Vol. IBook InformationISBN 9780198146445Author Leighton ReynoldsFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 128mm * 22mm -
Timaeus by Plato
RRP: £13.99£11.55First published in Plato: Complete Works, Donald J. Zeyl's masterful translation of Timaeus is presented along with his 75 page introductory essay, which discusses points of contemporary interest in the Timaeus, deals at length with long-standing and... -
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle 9781853264610
RRP: £4.99£3.46Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more strictly philosophical topics of logic, metaphysics and ethics... -
The Histories by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £12.99£9.09In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, though not of chaos.In the surviving books of his Histories the barrister-historian Tacitus, writing some thirty years after the... -
Plato's Individuals by Mary Margaret McCabe
RRP: £58.00£44.37Contradicting the long-held belief that Aristotle was the first to discuss individuation systematically, Mary Margaret McCabe argues that Plato was concerned with what makes something a something and that he solved the problem in a radically different... -
Works by Marcus Aurelius
RRP: £24.95£22.92Stoic musings of a philosopher-emperor at war.Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, born at Rome, received training under his guardian and uncle emperor Antoninus Pius (reigned 138-161), who adopted him. He was converted to... -
Republic: Translated from the New Standard Greek Text, with Introduction by Plato 9780872207363
RRP: £15.99£13.06This edition includes a select bibliography, a synopsis of each book, a glossary of terms, a glossary and index of names, and a general index. "Reeve's new translation of Republic is the one to order for students. . . . Reeve draws on his thorough... -
The Dawn of the Roman Empire: Books 31-40 by Livy
RRP: £12.99£9.09'With a single announcement from a herald, all the cities of Greece and Asia had been set free; only an intrepid soul could formulate such an ambitious project, only phenomenal valour and fortune bring it to fruition. (Livy, 33. 33) Thus Livy... -
A New Stoicism: Revised Edition by Lawrence C. Becker 9780691177212
RRP: £20.00£15.54What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical theory, and if it had coped successfully with the challenges of modern philosophy and experimental science? What would stoic ethics be like today if... -
Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus by Gregory Shaw 9781621380634
£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621380634Author Gregory ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Psychology and Value in Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic Philosophy: The Ninth Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy by Fiona Leigh 9780192858108
RRP: £65.00£58.56Ancient Greek thought saw the birth, in Western philosophy, of the study now known as moral psychology. In its broadest sense, moral psychology encompasses the study of those aspects of human psychology relevant to our moral lives--desire, emotion,... -
Republic by Plato 9781853264832
RRP: £4.99£3.46Translated by John Llewelyn Davies and David James Vaughan. With an Introduction by Stephen Watt. The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years. Such is his importance that the twentieth-century... -
Plato’s Pragmatism: Rethinking the Relationship between Ethics and Epistemology by Nicholas R. Baima
RRP: £39.99£35.06Plato's Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive defense of a pragmatist reading of Plato. According to Plato, the ultimate rational goal is not to accumulate knowledge and avoid falsehood but rather to live an excellent human life. The book contends... -
The Art Of Memory by Frances A. Yates
RRP: £18.99£14.01This unique and brilliant book is a history of human knowledge. Before the invention of printing, a trained memory was of vital importance. Based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind, the ancient Greeks created an elaborate... -
Tragedy, the Greeks and Us by Simon Critchley
RRP: £10.99£7.77We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come face to face with the things we don't want to know about ourselves, but which still make us who we are. It articulates the conflicts and... -
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... -
Ren: The Ancient Chinese Art of Finding Fulfilment Through the World Around You by Yen Ooi
RRP: £12.99£8.60A beautiful look at the Ancient Chinese philosophy of Ren and how it can help us with our hectic modern lives.The Chinese character for Ren combines the word for 'person' and the number 'two' , representing human connection. And in the teachings of... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9781668050804
RRP: £9.99£6.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668050804Author Marcus AureliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *... -
World Mythology in Bite-sized Chunks by Mark Daniels
RRP: £7.99£3.51A masterful introduction to world mythology, shedding light on the impact it has had on cultures past and present and untangling the complex web of deities, monsters and myths.From the signs of the zodiac to literature and art, the influence of world... -
The Agony of Polemos by Carlos Videla
£17.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956887457Author Carlos VidelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Secret Texts of Hellenic Polytheism: A Practical Guide to the Restored Pagan Religion of George Gemistos Plethon by John Opsopaus
RRP: £26.00£16.43Only sixteen chapters of Plethon's Book of Laws survive, and for the first time ever, they have been translated into English in their entirety. George Gemistos, who called himself Plethon, helped to trigger the Renaissance by reawakening an interest in... -
Fables: Fables by Phaedrus
RRP: £24.95£23.97Fabulous verse.Babrius is the reputed author of a collection (discovered in the 19th century) of more than 125 fables based on those called Aesop's, in Greek verse. He may have been a Hellenized Roman living in Asia Minor during the late first century of... -
Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy, History, and Practice of a Timeless Tradition by Christopher D Wallis 9780989761307
RRP: £34.95£26.58This book takes readers on a fascinating journey to the very heart of Tantra: its key teachings, foundational lineages, and transformative practices. Since the West's discovery of Tantra 100 years ago, there has been considerable fascination,... -
How to Grieve: An Ancient Guide to the Lost Art of Consolation by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780691220321
RRP: £14.99£11.87An engaging new translation of a timeless masterpiece about coping with the death of a loved oneIn 45 BCE, the Roman statesman Cicero fell to pieces when his beloved daughter, Tullia, died from complications of childbirth. But from the depths of despair,... -
The Republic of Plato by Adam Kirsch
RRP: £18.99£13.15Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed work is the first strictly literal translation of a timeless classic. In addition to the annotated text, there is also a rich and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Plato by David Ebrey
RRP: £26.99£23.20The first edition of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), edited by Richard Kraut, shaped scholarly research and guided new students for thirty years. This new edition introduces students to fresh approaches to Platonic dialogues while advancing the... -
Aristotle as Teacher: His Introduction to a Philosophic Science by Christopher Bruell
£32.00This book is an account of Aristotle's Metaphysics. The work is considered as a whole and each of its parts or books is taken up in the order that it has in the traditional text. The book is based on an examination of all of the manuscript readings... -
Dialogues and Letters by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £9.99£7.11A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks among the most eloquent and influential masters of Latin prose. This selection explores his thoughts on philosophy and the trials of life. In the Consolation to... -
Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale by Lenn E. Goodman
RRP: £19.00£16.20The Arabic philosophical fable "Hayy Ibn Yaqzan" is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), an Andalusian philosopher, tells of a happy child raised by a doe on an equatorial island who grows up to discover the truth about the... -
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9780895267108
RRP: £13.99£8.03For Nietzsche the Age of Greek Tragedy was indeed a tragic age. He saw in it the rise and climax of values so dear to him that their subsequent drop into catastrophe (in the person of Socrates - Plato) was clearly foreshadowed as though these were events... -
365 Ways to be More Stoic: A day-by-day guide to practical stoicism by Tim Lebon
RRP: £12.99£7.51HAPPINESS, SERENITY AND FULFIMENT ARE ALL WITHIN YOUR CONTROL365 WAYS TO BE MORE STOIC is a full year's worth of daily inspiration, tools, stories, actions, and rituals that will guide you to a meaningful life, filled with happiness. It is a simple,... -
Parmenides by Plato 9780872203280
RRP: £16.99£13.81"Gill's and Ryan's Parmenides is, simply, superb: the Introduction, more than a hundred pages long, is transparently clear, takes the reader meticulously through the arguments, avoids perverseness, and still manages to make sense of the dialogue as a... -
The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus: Fragments by C. C. W. Taylor 9781442612129
RRP: £32.00£29.13It may not be too much to say that all the work Western philosophers have done over the past two thousand years was begun by the Pre-Socratics. The Phoenix Pre-Socratic series has been instrumental in recovering Pre-Socratic texts. As with earlier works... -
Shame and Necessity, Second Edition by Bernard Williams 9780520256439
RRP: £25.00£19.18We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness. Bernard Williams' original and radical book questions... -
The Analects by Confucius
RRP: £10.99£7.00Formed in a time of great unrest in ancient China, The Analects is vital to an understanding of Chinese history and thought, and, 2,500 years on, it remains startlingly relevant to contemporary life.Complete and unabridged. Part of the Macmillan... -
The Celestial Hunter by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A poetic, erudite exploration of history and myth' Financial TimesAn unforgettable journey through centuries and across cultures to the pivotal moment in evolution - when humans did something that no species had yet tried - when we became the hunter and... -
The Allegory of the Cave by Plato 9781535373388
RRP: £6.95£6.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535373388Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
How the Worlds Became: Philosophy and the Oldest Stories by Stephen R L Clark 9781621389354
RRP: £19.00£18.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621389354Author Stephen R L ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Philosophy and Leadership: Three Classical Models and Cases by Brent Cusher
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...