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City and Man by Leo Strauss 9780226777016
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €25.93The 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 World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens by Danielle S. Allen
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.95For 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: €38.08Booksplease Price: €34.53An 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: €95.20Booksplease Price: €78.94Callimachus 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: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.19Wishful 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: €38.08Booksplease Price: €34.53In 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: €65.45Booksplease Price: €58.37Today, 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... -
Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought by Deborah Tarn Steiner 9780691094885
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €61.73In 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... -
When a Gesture Was Expected: A Selection of Examples from Archaic and Classical Greek Literature by Alan L. Boegehold
RRP: €109.48Booksplease Price: €88.90When 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: €47.60Booksplease Price: €40.88A 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 Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology - Second Edition by Marcel Detienne
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.59Rich 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: €61.88Booksplease Price: €52.66Nicole 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... -
The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy by James M. Redfield
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €102.85Athens 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: €53.55Booksplease Price: €46.33In 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: €57.12Booksplease Price: €48.11Challenging 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: €49.98Booksplease Price: €43.59When 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: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.29The 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: €57.12Booksplease Price: €46.68Although 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: €95.20Booksplease Price: €79.30This 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: €47.60Booksplease Price: €41.23Most 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 Greco-Persian Wars: A Short History with Documents by Erik Jensen
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.02Hackett'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: €61.88Booksplease Price: €52.13Jane 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: €119.00Booksplease Price: €97.96Sicily 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... -
Herodotus: Histories Book I by Carolyn Dewald
RRP: €123.76Booksplease Price: €114.43In 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 Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times Robert Cooper 9781780228365
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50History 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... -
In the Shadow of Olympus: The Emergence of Macedon by Eugene N. Borza
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €48.11In tracing the emergence of the Macedonian kingdom from its origins as a Balkan backwater to a major European and Asian power, Eugene Borza offers to specialists and lay readers alike a revealing... -
The Princeton Guide to Historical Research by Zachary Schrag
RRP: €92.82Booksplease Price: €75.67The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first centuryThe Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to... -
Fugitive Democracy: And Other Essays by Sheldon S. Wolin
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.00An authoritative collection of the most important writings of an influential political thinkerSheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years. In... -
Socratic Citizenship by Dana R. Villa
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €46.33Many critics bemoan the lack of civic engagement in America. Tocqueville's "nation of joiners" seems to have become a nation of alienated individuals, disinclined to fulfill the obligations of... -
Fugitive Democracy: And Other Essays by Sheldon S. Wolin 9780691133645
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €41.23Sheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years. Fugitive Democracy brings together his most important writings, from classic essays such as... -
Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context by Jacques Jouanna 9780691172071
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €55.38Here, for the first time in English, is celebrated French classicist Jacques Jouanna's magisterial account of the life and work of Sophocles. Exhaustive and authoritative, this acclaimed book... -
Essays and Reviews: 1959-2002 by Bernard Williams 9780691168609
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.22Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to communicate... -
The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch by Raffaella Cribiore 9780691171357
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €32.17This book is a study of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, a major intellectual figure who ran one of the most prestigious schools of rhetoric in the later Roman Empire. He was a tenacious adherent... -
Modern Greek Lessons: A Primer in Historical Constructivism by James D. Faubion
RRP: €69.02Booksplease Price: €57.20Through 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: €80.92Booksplease Price: €66.62In 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: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.95An 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: €41.65Booksplease Price: €37.25This 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: €130.90Booksplease Price: €111.60Presented 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: €69.02Booksplease Price: €57.20In 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: €57.11Booksplease Price: €53.30Ressentiment-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...