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This work is unique in treating Augustine's The City of God book by book in depth with expertise commentary. It will prove valuable to any student... Læs mere
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This work is unique in treating Augustine's The City of God book by book in depth with expertise commentary. It will prove valuable to any student... Læs mere
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How does an ancient historian describing a catapult at war differ from an ancient engineer... Læs mere
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Teleology is the study of ends or purposes. This collection of twelve essays examines ancient philosophical and medical approaches to a... Læs mere
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Through the close reading of passages in the Theaetetus, Republic and Phaedo, Sandra Peterson presents a theory regarding the contrasting portrayals of... Læs mere
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The letters of Seneca are uniquely engaging; they offer an urgent guide to Stoic self-improvement but also cast light on Roman attitudes towards slavery, gladiatorial combat and... Læs mere
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Sextus' Against the Physicists offers a detailed discussion of the key concepts and arguments used in ancient physics. This volume is an invaluable companion to... Læs mere
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Explores the process by which the intellectual speculations pursued by Plato in the Academy assumed the nature of a... Læs mere
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A relative change occurs when some item changes a relation. This Element examines how Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Sextus Empiricus approached relative change.
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How many authors were there in antiquity? Where did they work? How was the 'canon' made? This book provides an account of ancient culture in terms of such quantifiable questions. The end result explains why the Greeks were unique in creating a culture based on pluralistic debate.
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This book applies Aristotle's argument - that citizenship is like friendship - to modern society.... Læs mere
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In this book, Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier offers the first systematic study of Pythagoras and his influence on mathematics, astronomy, philosophy,... Læs mere