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Hellenistic Poetry: A Selection by David Sider
Booksplease Price: £87.93This collection of texts is designed to supplement those currentlyavailable for use in courses on Hellenistic poetry. Most have neverbefore appeared in a similar collection; several have only... -
Hellenistic Poetry: A Selection by David Sider 9780472053131
Booksplease Price: £50.81This collection of texts is designed to supplement those currentlyavailable for use in courses on Hellenistic poetry. Most have neverbefore appeared in a similar collection; several have only... -
Doctrine and Doxography: Studies on Heraclitus and Pythagoras by David Sider 9783110331165
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £107.24Pythagoras and Heraclitus developed theories of the universe and mankind's place in it which were taken seriously by all later Greek thinkers. None of their works remains, however, except in later... -
Buried by Vesuvius - The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum Kenneth Lapatin 9781606065921
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £48.59The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum, the model for the Getty Villa in Malibu, is one of the world's earliest systematically investigated archaeological sites. Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius... -
Library of Villa Dei Papiri at Herculaneum . Sider 9780892367993
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.97The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii in A.D. 79 also buried nearby Herculaneum. Over time the location of the small town was forgotten, but shortly after its rediscovery in the 1730s,... -
The Water-Food-Energy Nexus: Processes, Technologies, and Challenges by I. M. Mujtaba 9781138746077
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £107.70Exponential growth of the worldwide population requires increasing amounts of water, food, and energy. However, as the quantity of available fresh water and energy sources directly affecting cost of... -
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: Fragments and Testomonia by Patricia Curd 9781442611634
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (circa. 500 B.C.-428 B.C.) was reportedly the first Presocratic philosopher to settle in Athens. He was a friend of Pericles and his ideas are reflected in the works of... -
The Good Poem According to Philodemus by Michael McOsker
RRP: £98.00Booksplease Price: £93.71This book elucidates the poetics of Philodemus of Gadara, a first century BCE Epicurean philosopher and poet, whose On Poems survives in extensive fragments among the Herculaneum papyri. Although his... -
Philolaus of Croton: Pythagorean and Presocratic: A Commentary on the Fragments and Testimonia with Interpretive Essays by Philolaus 9780521024716
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £52.79This is the first comprehensive study for nearly 200 years of what remains of the writings of the Presocratic philosopher Philolaus of Croton (c. 470-385 BC). These fragments are crucial to our...