Books in category History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical

Aristotle's Psychology

Author: Aristotle/ Hammond, William Alexander (TRN)
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781432506889
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Ancient European Philosophy: The History of Greek Philosophy Psychologically Treated

Author: Snider, Denton J.
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781432507992
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Greek and Roman Stoicism and Some of Its Disciples: Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius

Author: Davis, Charles H. Stanley
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781432533151
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Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy

Author: Zeller, Eduard
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781432534974
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Ancient Wisdom: An Outline of Theosophical Teachings

Author: Besant, Annie Wood
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780548000588
An in-depth study of theosophical teachings.

A History of Eclecticism in Greek Philosophy

Author: Zeller, Eduard
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780548108321

Socrates, Pleasure, and Value

Author: George Rudebusch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780195159615
In the past quarter century, enormous philosophical attention has been paid to Plato's Socratic dialogues, as interpreters have sought to identify which dialogues are truly Socratic and interpret and defend the moral theories they find in those works. In spite of this intellectual energy, noconsensus has emerged on the question of whether Socrates was a hedonist--whether he believed pleasure to be

Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria

Author: Herophilus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521041782
Von Staden assembles the fragmentary evidence concerning one of the more important scientists of ancient Greece.

The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World

Author: Netz, Reviel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521041744
A radically new interpretation of the historical trajectory of pre-modern mathematics.

The Advancement of Learning

Author: Bacon, Francis
Publisher : Book Jungle
ISBN : 9781605976501
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) was a British statesman and philosopher. Bacon is considered the originator of the essay. Bacon''s threefold goals were to discover truth, to serve his country, and to serve his church. In 1584 Bacon joined Parliament. There is a theory that Bacon was the illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and that Elizabeth''s other secret biologic

Socrates Dissatisfied: An Analysis of Plato's Crito

Author: Roslyn Weiss
Publisher : 101 Productions
ISBN : 9780195116847
In Socrates Dissatisfied, Weiss argues against the prevailing view that the Laws are Socrates' spokesmen. She reveals and explores many indications that Socrates and the Laws are, both in style and substance, adversaries: whereas the Laws are rhetoricians who defend the absolute authority ofthe Laws, Socrates is a dialectician who defends--in the Crito no less than in the Apology--the overriding c

Aristotle: Politics, Books V and VI

Author: Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780198235354

The Works of Archimedes

Author: Archimedes
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
ISBN : 9781602062528
Volume 1 of the first authoritative translation of Archimedes'' works into English.

Skeptic Way: Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism

Author: Benson Mates;Sextus
Publisher : 101 Productions
ISBN : 9780195092134
The Outlines of Pyrrhonism, by the 2nd century A.D. Greek physician Sextus Empiricus was immensely influential in the history of Western philosophy. The rediscovery and publication of this work in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led directly to the skepticism of Montaigne, Gassendi, Bayle, Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, and others, and eventually to the preoccupation of modern philosophy with

Stories of the East from Herodotus

Author: Herodotus
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780548006245

Queen Elizabeth's Englishings of Boethius, Plutarch and Horace

Author:
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781432604042

Aristotle on the Art of Poetry

Author: Aristotle ;Cooper, Lane
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781432602291

Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's de Consolatione Philosophiae

Author: Boethuis, Anicius
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781432607050

The Neo Platonists a Study in the History of Hellenism

Author: Whittaker, Thomas
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781432607357

Eros, Wisdom, and Silence

Author: Rhodes, James M.
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN : 9780826214591
Eros, Wisdom, and Silence is a close reading of Plato's Seventh Letter and his dialogues Symposium and Phaedrus, with significant attention also given to Alcibiades I. A book about love, James Rhodes's work was conceived as a conversation and meant to be read side by side with Plato's works and those of his worthy interlocutors. It invites lovers to participate in conversations that move their sou