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Roots of Realism Benjamin Frankel 9780714642031
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $116.09Political realism sees politics as a permanent struggle for power and security. The essays in this volume examine the tradition of realist political analysis of international relations from the... -
The Histories by Herodotus
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.02'The first example of non-fiction, the text that underlies the entire discipline of history ... it is above all a treasure trove' Tom HollandOne of the masterpieces of classical literature, The... -
Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought by Deborah Tarn Steiner 9780691094885
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $108.93In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks... -
Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective by Lowell Edmunds 9780691165127
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $88.12It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth--the abduction of Helen that led to the... -
Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective by Lowell Edmunds 9780691202334
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.14It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth-the abduction of Helen that led to the... -
City and Man by Leo Strauss 9780226777016
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $45.76The City and Man consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic, and Thucydides' Peloponnesian Wars. Together, the essays constitute a brilliant... -
The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy by James M. Redfield
RRP: $220.50Booksplease Price: $181.50Athens dominates textbook accounts of ancient Greece. But was it, for the Greeks themselves, a model city-state or a creative, even a corrupt, departure from the model? Or was there a model? This... -
The Tragedy of Political Theory: The Road Not Taken by J. Peter Euben
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $81.75In this book J. Peter Euben argues that Greek tragedy was the context for classical political theory and that such theory read in terms of tragedy provides a ground for contemporary theorizing alert... -
The Athenian Nation by Edward Cohen 9780691094908
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $84.90Challenging the modern assumption that ancient Athens is best understood as a polis, Edward Cohen boldly recasts our understanding of Athenian political and social life. Cohen demonstrates that... -
The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy: Its Origin, Development, and Significance by Andre Laks 9780691175454
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $76.92When we talk about Presocratic philosophy, we are speaking about the origins of Greek philosophy and Western rationality itself. But what exactly does it mean to talk about "Presocratic philosophy"... -
The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths by William Hansen 9780691195926
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.81The first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories-from myths and fairy tales to jokesCaptured centaurs and satyrs, incompetent seers, people who suddenly change sex,... -
Female Acts in Greek Tragedy by Helene P. Foley 9780691094922
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $82.38Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential... -
Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy: The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece by Sara Forsdyke 9780691119755
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $139.94This book explores the cultural and political significance of ostracism in democratic Athens. In contrast to previous interpretations, Sara Forsdyke argues that ostracism was primarily a symbolic... -
Wandering Greeks: The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great by Robert Garland 9780691161051
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.77Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues... -
The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens by Danielle S. Allen
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $77.55For Danielle Allen, punishment is more a window onto democratic Athens' fundamental values than simply a set of official practices. From imprisonment to stoning to refusal of burial, instances of... -
Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a Discipline by Christopher Moore
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $60.94An original and provocative book that illuminates the origins of philosophy in ancient Greece by revealing the surprising early meanings of the word "philosopher"Calling Philosophers Names provides a... -
Callimachus and His Critics by Alan Cameron 9780691606125
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $139.31Callimachus has usually been seen as the archetypal ivory-tower poet, the epitome if not the inventor of the concept of art for art's sake, author of erudite works written to be read in book form by... -
A World without Why by Raymond Geuss 9780691169200
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.75Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views depend on the optimistic assumption that, despite... -
Marking Time: On the Anthropology of the Contemporary by Paul Rabinow 9780691133638
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $60.94In Marking Time, Paul Rabinow presents his most recent reflections on the anthropology of the contemporary. Drawing richly on the work of Michel Foucault, John Dewey, Niklas Luhmann, and, most... -
30 Great Books That Made History Jaume Aurell 9781509562404
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $103.01Today, many readers could easily list thirty classic authors, or thirty classic works of art, literature, music, philosophy, or science. But would they be able to name thirty classic works of... -
When a Gesture Was Expected: A Selection of Examples from Archaic and Classical Greek Literature by Alan L. Boegehold
RRP: $193.20Booksplease Price: $156.89When a Gesture Was Expected encourages a deeper appreciation of ancient Greek poetry and prose by showing where a nod of the head or a wave of the hand can complete meaning in epic poetry and in... -
When a Gesture Was Expected: A Selection of Examples from Archaic and Classical Greek Literature by Alan L. Boegehold 9780691242224
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.14A boldly innovative study of nonverbal communication in the poetry and prose of Hellenic antiquityWhen a Gesture Was Expected encourages a deeper appreciation of ancient Greek poetry and prose by... -
The Greco-Persian Wars: A Short History with Documents by Erik Jensen
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.03Hackett's Passages: Key Moments in History series titles include original-source documents in accessible editions, intended for the student-user or general audience. This edition, The Greco-Persian... -
Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $106.53Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature. In... -
The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante by Sarah Spence 9780691227184
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $172.87Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval EuropeIn the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it as the... -
The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology - Second Edition by Marcel Detienne
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $76.92Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth... -
The Experiences of Tiresias: The Feminine and the Greek Man by Nicole Loraux
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $92.93Nicole Loraux has devoted much of her writing to charting the paths of the Greek "imaginary," revealing a collective masculine psyche fraught with ambivalence as it tries to grasp the differences... -
Herodotus: Histories Book I by Carolyn Dewald
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $201.94In the Histories, which could loosely be translated as 'Investigations' or 'Researches,' Herodotus tells how the Persian Empire began, grew, and then met defeat in Greece in his parents' generation... -
The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante by Sarah Spence
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.94Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval EuropeIn the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it as the... -
The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece by Brooke Holmes 9780691163406
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $56.13The Symptom and the Subject takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self. Beginning with Homer, moving... -
Selected Writings on Aesthetics by Johann Gottfried Herder 9780691115955
RRP: $241.50Booksplease Price: $235.37A seminal figure in the philosophy of history, culture, and language, Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) also produced some of the most important and original works in the history of aesthetic... -
Modern Greek Lessons: A Primer in Historical Constructivism by James D. Faubion
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $100.95Through a blend of lively detail and elegant narration, James Faubion immerses us in the cosmopolitan intellectual life of Athens, a centerless city of multiplicities and fragmentations, a city on... -
Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae: Expanded Edition by Charles Segal
RRP: $142.80Booksplease Price: $117.56In his play Bacchae, Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. In so doing,... -
Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a Discipline by Christopher Moore 9780691195056
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $77.55An original and provocative book that illuminates the origins of philosophy in ancient Greece by revealing the surprising early meanings of the word "philosopher"Calling Philosophers Names provides a... -
From Protagoras to Aristotle: Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy by Heda Segvic 9780691242231
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $65.73This is a collection of the late Heda Segvic's papers in ancient moral philosophy. At the time of her death at age forty-five in 2003, Segvic had already established herself as an important figure in... -
Freedom and Domination: A Historical Critique of Civilization by Dankwart A. Rustow 9780691615530
RRP: $231.00Booksplease Price: $196.94Presented here is a condensed translation of Alexander Rustow's three-volume Ortsbestimmung der Gegenwart. This monumental work was widely acclaimed by critics throughout Europe as a major... -
The Speeches in Vergil's Aeneid by Gilbert Highet 9780691619491
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $100.95In the Aeneid men, women, gods, and goddesses are characterized by the speeches assigned to them far more than by descriptions of their appearance or behavior. Most of the speeches are highly... -
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Nietzsche's Psychology of Ressentiment: Revenge and Justice in "On the Genealogy of Morals" by Guy Elgat 9780367372378
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $94.06Ressentiment-the hateful desire for revenge-plays a pivotal role in Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals. Ressentiment explains the formation of bad conscience, guilt, asceticism, and, most... -
30 Great Books That Made History Jaume Aurell 9781509562411
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $35.76Today, many readers could easily list thirty classic authors, or thirty classic works of art, literature, music, philosophy, or science. But would they be able to name thirty classic works of... -
The Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times Robert Cooper 9781780228365
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05History does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys, random events, good intentions that go wrong. Robert Cooper's incisive...