Philosophy

ISBN: 9780500294734
Published by : Thames and Hudson
In this clear and evocative account, John Gaskin unfolds the thinking about nature, life, death and other worlds that informed the culture and society of the Classical world, drawing out its interest for modern readers. Witty sketches and diagrams... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780198793120
Published by : Oxford University Press
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

ISBN: 9781138299795
Published by : Routledge
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

ISBN: 9781316510049
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy is often characterised in terms of competitive individuals debating orally with one another in public arenas. But it also developed over its long history a sense in which philosophers might acknowledge some other... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781138913523
Published by : Routledge
The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory is an interdisciplinary volume that examines the application of cognitive theory to the study of the classical world, across several interrelated areas including linguistics, literary theory,... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199394852
Published by : Oxford University Press
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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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