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Amphitryon. The Comedy of Asses. The Pot of Gold. The Two Bacchises. The Captives (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The comedies of Plautus , who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205–184 BC, are the earliest Latin... Læs mere
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Laws, Volume I: Books 1–6 (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 explores love in its many... Læs mere
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The Library, Volume I: Books 1–3.9 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born ca. 180 BC) but probably composed in the first or second century AD, the Library provides an expansive summary of Greek myths and heroic legends about the origin and early history of the world.
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Pro Lege Manilia. Pro Caecina. Pro Cluentio. Pro Rabirio Perduellionis Reo (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman. Besides... Læs mere
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Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The theory of perspective, which allowed Florentine artists to depict the world from a spectator’s point of view, originated in Baghdad with an... Læs mere
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Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass), Volume I: Books 1–6 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Metamorphoses (Golden Ass) of Apuleius is a romance combining realism and magic. Lucius wants the sensations of a bird, but by pharmaceutical accident... Læs mere
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Platonic Theology: Books V-VIII (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Platonic Theology is the visionary and philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus largely responsible for... Læs mere
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Lives of the Popes (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Imprisoned for conspiring against Pope Paul II, Platina (1421–1481) returned to favor under Pope Sixtus IV, and composed this biographical compendium of the Roman... Læs mere
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The Persian Wars, Volume I: Books 1–2 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
After personal inquiry and study of hearsay and other evidence, Herodotus (born ca. 484 BC) gives us in his famous history of warfare between the Greeks and the Persians a not uncritical estimate of the best that he could find.
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Recognizing Public Value (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Moore’s classic Creating Public Value offered advice to managers about how to create public value, but left unresolved the question how one could recognize when public value had... Læs mere
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Stichus. Three-Dollar Day. Truculentus. The Tale of a Traveling-Bag. Fragments (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205–184 BC, are the earliest Latin works... Læs mere
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