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Ennead III (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Plotinus was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them sometime between AD 301 and 305 in six sets of... Læs mere
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The Learned Banqueters, Volume V: Books 10.420e–11 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work provides quotations from works now lost, and preserves information about wide range of information about Greek culture.
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Early Greek Philosophy, Volume III: Early Ionian Thinkers, Part 2 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Volume III of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the early Ionian thinkers Xenophanes and Heraclitus.
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Greek and Latin Poetry (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Angelo Poliziano (1454–1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the Florence during the Age of the Medici. This I Tatti edition contains... Læs mere
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Commentaries on Plato: Volume 2 Parmenides (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. His commentaries remained the... Læs mere
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What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was the revolutionary scientific thinker who discovered what stars are made of. But her name is hard to find... Læs mere
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Miscellanies (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on lexical or textual problems. He solves these with his... Læs mere
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Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume II: Books 6–10 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Diogenes Laertius compiled his compendium on the lives and doctrines of the ancient philosophers from hundreds of sources. It ranges over three centuries, from Thales to Epicurus, portraying forty-five important figures, and is enriched by numerous quotations.
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Punica, Volume II: Books 9–17 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Silius Italicus composed an epic Punica in 17 books on the Second Punic War. His poem relies largely on Livy’s prose for facts. It also echoes poets, especially Virgil, and employs techniques traditional in Latin epic.
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History of the Wars, Volume II: Books 3–4 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
History of the Wars by Procopius (late fifth century to after AD 558) consists largely of sixth-century military history, with much information about peoples,... Læs mere
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Pro Archia. Post Reditum in Senatu. Post Reditum ad Quirites. De Domo Sua. De Haruspicum Responsis. Pro Plancio (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher,... Læs mere
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Cratylus. Parmenides. Greater Hippias. Lesser Hippias (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The great Athenian philosopher Plato was born in 427 BC and lived to be eighty. Acknowledged masterpieces among his works are the Symposium, which... Læs mere
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