Classical Press of Wales Forlag
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Greek and Roman Consolations: Eight Studies of a Tradition and Its Afterlife (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Ancient consolatory writings offer us a window onto alien forms of loss and grief, as experienced in a world where death happened, in most cases, much earlier and with less reliable warning than in developed countries today.
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Sparta in Modern Thought (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Images of ancient Sparta have had a major impact on Western thought. From the Renaissance to the French Revolution she was invoked by radical thinkers as a model for the creation of a republican political and social order.
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Dialectic in Action: An Examination of Plato's Crito (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Plato's Crito examines a single moral decision, whether Socrates ought to escape from his death-cell. Stokes's book discusses Socrates' arguments against Crito's offer of escape. It construes Socrates' questions as genuine questions, which clarify and undermine Critos positions.
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