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Plutarch (ca. AD 45–120) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical examples in... Læs mere
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In Astronomica (first century AD), the earliest extant treatise we have on astrology, Manilius provides a poetic account of celestial phenomena and the signs of the zodiac. He also gives witty character sketches of persons born under certain stars.
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Confessions is a spiritual autobiography of Augustine’s early life, family, associations, and explorations of alternative religious and theological viewpoints as he... Læs mere
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Livy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC–AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome’s rise from the traditional foundation of the city in... Læs mere
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Earthquake Children is the first book to examine the origins of modern Japan’s infrastructure of resilience. Janet Borland vividly... Læs mere
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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 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 classical and Christian worlds meet in Boethius (ca. AD 480–524), the last writer of purely literary Latin from antiquity. His Tractates examine... Læs mere
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These ten letters by Rainer Maria Rilke speak directly to the young, offering unguarded thoughts on such diverse subjects as creativity, solitude, self-reliance, living with... Læs mere
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The attempt to repress a majority of its own population backfired on the Confederate States of America as the disenfranchised demanded to... Læs mere
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Art, William Kentridge says, is its own form of knowledge. It does not simply supplement the real world, and cannot be purely understood in the rational terms of academic... Læs mere