Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

The Poverty of Eros in Plato's Symposium offers an innovative new approach towards Eros and the concept of Eros in the Symposium.

This book is a unique interpretation of Aristotle''s sophisticated analyses of motion and perception and how they were inspired by Plato.

This book helps understand Plato's writings by describing the circumstances in which they were produced.

Introduces readers to the history of necessity and possibility, two modal concepts which play a key role in philosophy.

First published in 1989, this persuasive and original work by John McClelland examines the importance of the idea of 'the crowd' in the writings of philosophers, historians and politicians from the classical era to the twentieth century.

This book examines the philosophies of nature of the early Greek thinkers and argues that a significant and thoroughgoing shift is required in our understanding of them.

the philosophers in the West, none, perhaps, is better known by name and less familiar in actual content of his ideas than the medieval Muslim philosopher, physician, minister and naturalist Abu Ali Ibn Sina, known since the days of the scholastics as Avicenna.

Aristotle's Posterior Analytics elaborates for the first time in the history of Western philosophy the notions of science and the requirements for the distinctive kind of knowledge scientists possess.

Women played an important part in Pythagorean communities, so Greek sources from the Classical era to Byzantium consistently maintain.

Philoponus has been identified as the founder in dynamics of the theory of impetus, an inner force impressed from without, which, in its later recurrence, has been hailed as a scientific revolution.

This book examines Aristotle''s use of the theory of natural teleology in producing explanations of natural phenomena.

This book is the second volume in the definitive anthology of early Christian texts, focusing on practice.

Takes stock of existing approaches in the interpretation of Lucretius, innovates within these, and advances in new directions.

The volume brings together seventeen studies on Avicenna by Dimitri Gutas, written over the past twenty-five years.

In recent years the philosophy of information has emerged as an important area of research in philosophy.

In this new study, John Sellars offers a fresh examination of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations as a work of philosophy by placing it against the background of the tradition of Stoic philosophy to which Marcus was committed.

This volume provides the first authoritative study of the creative appropriation of Greek ethics by late antique and Byzantine authors.

In this book, first published in 1978, Allen Brent sets out to explore some of the questions raised by theorists and philosophers regarding curriculum.

Plato's Psychology, originally published in 1970 and reprinted in 1972, is still the definitive modern discussion of the nature and development of Plato's concept of psyche.

A major new history of classical Greece-how it rose, how it fell, and what we can learn from itLord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew.

This book explores the circumstances surrounding Socrates' death, critically analysing conflicting sources to establish a framework for understanding his intellectual activities in the cultural, political, and religious context of 5th-century BC Athens.

This is the second volume in a new translation of Proclus'' commentary on Plato''s Timaeus.

Nicole Oresme's translation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Economics into French from Latin in the 1370s is the subject of Claire Sherman's stunningly illustrated book.

This volume features a unique epitome (original summation) of Aristotelian practical philosophy.

This book argues that in order for people to live well, they must develop a virtue of playfulness.

Professor Kahn pieces together the fragments of Heraclitus'' thought and philosophy.

Accessible and up-to-date introduction to the legacy of Hippocrates, the man and the writings attributed to him.

Evading established accounts of the development of doctrine in the Patristic era, Augustine's Christology has yet to receive the critical scholarly attention it deserves.

An accessible 2001 translation of Cicero''s important work on ethics.

What the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of contentment What are the secrets to a contented life?

In this book, first published in 1927, the author presents us with three conversations, fables, that, beautiful in themselves, also have a direct bearing on what is being discussed: Death and the Hereafter; Justice; and the Kingdom of Heaven.

Seven essays provide new and detailed explorations of the complex relationship between Plato and the Greek and Roman Stoic traditions.

The Epicurean school of philosophy was one of the dominant philosophies of the Hellenistic period.

In Plato's Laws is the earliest surviving fully developed cosmological argument.

This volume provides an overview of political problems as Aristotle conceived of them his Politics.

This book, first published in 1978, is a radical approach to the philosophical distinction between Being and beings, in which the life of Socrates is used as the metaphor for the theoretical life, in contrast to the continuous historical interest in that life as an object for biographical reconstruction and description.

Why were the stars so important in Rome?

This book presents a substantially revised version of some of the most important and innovative articles published by Alan Cameron in the field of late antique Greek poetry and philosophy.

Nietzsche's Renewal of Ancient Ethics connects different strands in Nietzsche studies to progress a unique interpretation of friendship in his writings.

In this insightful new book David J.

These new essays comprise the first collective study of Lucan and his epic poem that focuses specifically on points of contact between his text and the cultural, literary, and historical environments in which he lived and wrote.

The essays in this volume provide a picture of the most interesting, puzzling, and provoking aspects of Plato''s Republic.

In recent years, most political theorists have agreed that shame shouldn't play any role in democratic politics because it threatens the mutual respect necessary for participation and deliberation.

Aristotle is one of the most crucial figures in the history of Western thought, and his name and ideas continue to be invoked in a wide range of contemporary philosophical discussions.

Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity examines the various ways in which Christian intellectuals engaged with Platonism both as a pagan competitor and as a source of philosophical material useful to the Christian faith.

For more than a millennium, Aristotle was regarded as the foremost authority in the western world in nearly every subject.

In chapter 1 of On the Heavens Aristotle defines body, and then notoriously ruptures dynamics by introducing a fifth element, beyond Plato's four, to explain the rotation of the heavens, which, like nearly all Greeks, Aristotle took to be real, not apparent.

Thomas Aquinas devoted a substantial proportion of his greatest works to the virtues.