Philosophy
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The Peripatetics: Aristotle's Heirs [Hardback]
H. Baltussen (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9781844655755
Published by : Routledge
The Peripatetics explores the development of Peripatetic thought from Theophrastus and Strato to the work of the commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias. The book examines whether the internal dynamics of this philosophical school allowed for a unity... .... Learn More -
The Peripatetics: Aristotle's Heirs [Paperback]
H. Baltussen (Author)
£26.99ISBN: 9781844655762
Published by : Acumen Publishing
The Peripatetics explores the development of Peripatetic thought from Theophrastus and Strato to the work of the commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias. The book examines whether the internal dynamics of this philosophical school allowed for a unity... .... Learn More -
The Adventure of the Human Intellect [Hardback]
Kurt A. Raaflaub (Editor)
£120.00ISBN: 9781119162551
Published by : Wiley-Blackwell
In 1946, a series of lectures by scholars affiliated with the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute were assembled into a volume titled The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man. The lectures explored themes of intellectual history and t... .... Learn More
Crisis and Constitutionalism: Roman Political Thought from the Fall of the Republic to the Age of Revolution [Hardback]
Benjamin Straumann (Author)
£64.00ISBN: 9780199950928
Published by : Oxford University Press
Crisis and Constitutionalism argues that the late Roman Republic saw, for the first time in the history of political thought, the development of a normative concept of constitutionthe concept of a set of constitutional norms designed to guarantee ... .... Learn More
Seneca: A Life [Paperback]
Emily Wilson (Author)
£9.99ISBN: 9780718193508
Published by : Penguin Books Ltd
Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern ascetic morality while amassing a fortune under Nero and eventually committing suicide. This definitive ... .... Learn More
Galen: On the Structure of the Art of Medicine. The Art of Medicine. On the Practice of Medicine to Glaucon [Hardback]
Ian Johnston (Editor)
£15.95ISBN: 9780674997004
Published by : Harvard University Press
Galen of Pergamum (AD 129–?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, and medical historian, a theoretician and practitioner, who wrote forcefully and prolifically on an as... .... Learn More
Peace in the Ancient World: Concepts and Theories [Hardback]
Kurt A. Raaflaub (Editor)
£55.00ISBN: 9781118645123
Published by : Wiley-Blackwell
This book is the first to focus on war and peace in the ancient world from a global perspective. 19 distinguished scholars, all of whom are experts in their fields, discuss different aspects of this fascinating subject in relation to a large ... .... Learn More
The Bloomsbury Companion to Plato [Paperback]
G. A. Press (Editor)
£28.99ISBN: 9781474250917
Published by : Bloomsbury
Plato, mathematician, philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, is, together with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, universally considered to have laid the foundations of Western philosophy. The Bloomsbury Companion to Pla... .... Learn More
The Birth of Critical Thinking in Republican Rome [Hardback]
Claude Moatti (Author)
£77.00ISBN: 9780521895781
Published by : Cambridge University Press
In this classic work, now appearing in English for the first time, Claudia Moatti analyses the intellectual transformation that occurred at the end of the Roman Republic in response both to the political crisis and to the city's expansion across t... .... Learn More
Late Ancient Knowing [Hardback]
Catherine M. Chin (Editor); Moulie Vidas (Editor)
£79.95ISBN: 9780520277175
Published by : University of California Press
In this collection of essays, scholars examine the activity of knowing in late antiquity by focusing on thirteen major concepts from the intellectual, social, political, and cultural history of the period. They ask two questions a... .... Learn More
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