Philosophy

ISBN: 9780199282098
Published by : Oxford University Press
Seneca was a man of many facets: statesman, dramatist, philosopher, prose stylist. His life was marked by extremes of fortune - extremes that are reflected in much of his writing, and in the vicissitudes of his reputation in later centuries. Th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521872805
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Oxbow says: In the 1st century BC, the governor of Sicily, Gaius Verres, plundered the Temple of Athens and other buildings, for their art treasures. This episode was taken to trial and features in a series of speeches by Cicero, revealing an e... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521172905
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Oxbow says: In the 1st century BC, the governor of Sicily, Gaius Verres, plundered the Temple of Athens and other buildings, for their art treasures. This episode was taken to trial and features in a series of speeches by Cicero, revealing an e... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004167964
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Alleged incompatibility of Epicurus philosophy with rhetoric has led modern scholars to isolate rhetorical procedures in Lucretius De rerum natura and regard them as non-Epicurean, accessory features. This study of Lucretius rhetorical procedur... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199260355
Published by : Oxford University Press
This book gathers together some of the most important and influential scholarly articles of the last sixty to seventy years (three of which are translated into English here for the first time) on the Roman poet Lucretius. Lucretius' philosophic... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199291533
Published by : Oxford University Press
Polemon of Laodicea (near modern Denizli, south-west Turkey) was a wealthy Greek aristocrat and a key member of the intellectual movement known as the Second Sophistic. Among his works was the Physiognomy , a manual on how to tell character fr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199211920
Published by : Oxford University Press
This provocative study of Cicero's use of history reveals that rather than promoting his own values, Cicero uses historical representation to explore the difficulties of finding any ideological coherence in Rome's political or cultural traditio... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521848015
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity. After its rediscovery in 1417 i... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521612661
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity. After its rediscovery in 1417 i... .... Learn More