Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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There are few ideals of character as distinctive and divisive as the ancient virtue of 'greatness of soul'.

For centuries Latin served as an international language for scholars in Europe.

First published in 1992.

This is the first book-length study in English of the interpretative and philosophical approach of the commentaries of Simplicius of Cilicia (c.

The problem of tyranny preoccupied Plato, and its discussion both begins and ends his famous Republic.

This book provides a critical, up-to-date and original overview of the contemporary metaphysical debate on the problem of universals.

Virtue ethics is on the move both in Anglo-American philosophy and in the rest of the world.

This is the first major study devoted to the early Arabic reception and adaption of the figure of Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary Egyptian sage to whom were ascribed numerous works on astrology, alchemy, talismans, medicine, and philosophy.

In her essay collection First, Second, and Other Selves: Essays on Friendship and Personal Identity, well-known scholar of ancient philosophy Jennifer Whiting gathers her previously published essays taking Aristotle's theories on friendship as a springboard to engage with contemporary philosophical work on personal identity and moral psychology.

In the earliest drama the clash between the old world of ritual and the new world of money is revealed.

By the Roman age the traditional stories of Greek myth had long since ceased to reflect popular culture.

How ancient thinkers grappled with competing conceptions of divine lawIn the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine confronted one another with a force that reverberates to the present.

Written by renowned Aristotle scholar Sir David Ross, this study has long been established as one of the foremost surveys of Aristotle's life, work and philosophy.

Scholars have long recognized Lucretius's De Rerum Natura as an important allusive source for the Aeneid, but significant disagreement persists regarding the scope and purpose of Virgil's engagement with Epicurean philosophy.

Argues that Aristotle''s psychology is shaped by his critical reception of earlier theories of soul, including the Presocratic and Platonic.

For statesmen, friendship is the lingua franca of politics.

Philoponus' treatise Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World, an attack on Aristotle's astronomy and theology is concerned mainly with the eternity and divinity of the fifth element, or 'quintessence', of which Aristotle took the stars to be composed.

The Stoic philosopher Epictetus has been one of the most influential of ancient thinkers, both in antiquity itself and in modern times.

An astounding project of analysis on more than one hundred translations of ancient philosophical texts, this index of words found in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series comprises some 114,000 entries.

The Presocratics were the founding fathers of the Western philosophical tradition, and the first masters of rational thought.

Argues for a scientific interpretation of Aristotle''s ethical method and takes an innovative approach toward understanding his conception of philosophy.

Warfare has long been central to a proper understanding of ancient Greece and Rome, worlds where war was, as the philosopher Heraclitus observed, 'both king and father of all'.

The second volume of the first complete translation of Proclus'' commentary on Plato''s Republic.

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy.

Argues that Augustine assimilated the Stoic theory of perception into his theories of motivation, affectivity, therapy for the passions and moral progress.

Throughout his long career, Gadamer wrote and taught widely on the philosophy of the ancient world and on the connection between thinking and history.

An anthology of works commenting on the perception of beauty in art, structure and style in literature, and aesthetic judgement.

Explains for the first time the genesis and early form of both Indian and Greek philosophy, and their striking similarities.

This Companion examines the complete works of Seneca in context and establishes the importance of his legacy in Western thought.

This book offers a fundamental reworking of the history of the development of Greek music from the classical period to Roman times.

This Element examines how Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Sextus Empiricus approached relative change.

This volume presents Augustine''s writings on free will and divine grace in a new translation by Peter King.

Cosmology and Self in the Apostle Paul challenges the traditional reading of Paul.

This book brings together twenty-three distinctive and influential essays on ancient moral philosophy--including several published here for the first time--by the distinguished philosopher and classical scholar John Cooper.

Originally published in 1941, A History of Medicine provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to the advancement of medicine, from Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Babylonia, all the way up to the 20th century.

Sextus Empiricus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism is one of the most important and influential texts in the history of Greek philosophy.

A superb new edition of Epictetus's famed handbook on Stoicism-translated by one of the world's leading authorities on Stoic philosophyBorn a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c.

Examines Porphyry of Tyre''s critical engagement with Hellenism in late antiquity, emphasizing philosophical translation as the key to his thought.

A groundbreaking, revisionist account of the importance of the history of philosophy to intellectual change - scientific, philosophical and religious - in seventeenth-century England.

Originally published in 1973.

An interdisciplinary study of the forms and uses of uncertainty in important works of literature and philosophy in antiquity and the Renaissance.

Aristotle initiated the systematic investigation of perception, the emotions, memory, desire and action, developing his own account of these phenomena and their interconnection.

This volume explores the nature of mathematical proof in a range of historical settings, providing the first comprehensive history of proof.

In the eyes of posterity, ancient Rome is deeply flawed.

A new translation of Plato''s Laws into accessible English, with essential introductory and other explanatory material.

This book is about love in the classical world - not erotic passion but the kind of love that binds together intimate members of a family and very close friends, but which may also be extended to include a wider range of individuals for whom we care deeply.

Aristotles' 'Metaphysics' is one of the most important texts in Ancient Philosophy.