Philosophy
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Imagining the Afterlife in the Ancient World [Hardback]
Juliette Harrisson (Editor)
£105.00ISBN: 9781138299795
Published by : Routledge
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What did people in the ancient world think the next life would hold? Did they imagine there was a chance for a relationship between the living and the dead? What was the geography of the ancient underworld - what did it look like, how did the dead... .... Learn More -
The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory [Hardback]
Peter Meineck (Editor)
£165.00ISBN: 9781138913523
Published by : Routledge
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Evil Lords: Theories and Representations of Tyranny from Antiquity to the Renaissance [Hardback]
Nikos Panou (Editor); Hester Schadee (Editor)
£47.99ISBN: 9780199394852
Published by : Oxford University Press
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Evil Lords uses the prism of bad rule or tyranny to enhance our undestranding of political discourse from the ancient world to the renaissance, offering insights into pre-modern conceptions of sovereignty, as well as into the relation between ethi... .... Learn More -
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 2 [Paperback]
Peter Adamson (Author)
£10.99ISBN: 9780198818601
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: A History of Philosophy
Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and Sk... .... Learn More -
Plotinus: Myth, Metaphor, and Philosophical Practice [Paperback]
Stephen R. L. Clark (Author)
£26.50ISBN: 9780226565057
Published by : University of Chicago Press
Plotinus, the Roman philosopher (c. 204-270 CE) who is widely regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism, was also the creator of numerous myths, images, and metaphors. They have influenced both secular philosophers and Christian and Muslim theologia... .... Learn More -
Politics and Philosophy at Rome: Collected Papers [Hardback]
Miriam T. Griffin (Author); Catalina Balmaceda (Editor)
£120.00ISBN: 9780198793120
Published by : Oxford University Press
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This volume presents the collected papers of Miriam T. Griffin, an eminent scholar of Roman history and ancient thought whose work has played a central role in forging links between scholarship on the history of the Graeco-Roman world and its phil... .... Learn More -
Plotinus: On Selfhood, Freedom & Politics [Hardback]
Asger Ousager (Author)
£29.95ISBN: 9788779340985
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Series: (Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity)
As the most important philosophical work to emerge in the 700-year period between Aristotle and Augustine, The Enneads has been subject to intense scrutiny for more than 2000 years. But the mystical and abstract nature of these treatises by Plotin... .... Learn More -
Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy [Paperback]
Frisbee Sheffield (Editor); James Warren (Editor)
£36.99ISBN: 9781138478251
Published by : Routledge
Series: Routledge Philosophy Companions
The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of new essays on the philosophy and philosophers of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Written by a cast of international scholars, it covers the full range of ancient philosophy from ... .... Learn More -
The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy [Hardback]
George Karamanolis (Editor); Vasilis Politis (Editor)
£75.00ISBN: 9781107110151
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Ancient philosophers from an otherwise diverse range of traditions were connected by their shared use of aporia - translated as puzzlement rooted in conflicts of reasons - as a core tool in philosophical enquiry. The essays in this volume provide ... .... Learn More -
How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life [Hardback]
E. F. Watling (Translator); James S. Romm (Editor)
£14.95ISBN: 9780691175577
Published by : Princeton University Press
Timeless wisdom on death and dying from the celebrated Stoic philosopher Seneca"It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die," wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD). He counseled readers to "study death always," and took hi... .... Learn More
