Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

Nine leading scholars of ancient philosophy from Europe, the UK, and North America offer a systematic study of Book Beta of Aristotle's Metaphysics.

When we are confronted with a work of art, what is its effect on us?

The first systematic study of Socrates'' interest in selfhood, examining ancient philosophical ideas of what constitutes the self.

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What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity?

This volume is the first monograph devoted to the philosophy of Taurus of Beirut, and provides a long-awaited analysis of his texts and their first English translation.

Violent conflict between individuals and groups was as common in the ancient world as it has been in more recent history.

Explores the extent to which Aristotle''s ethical treatises employ the concepts, methods, and practices developed in his ''scientific'' works.

This book pursues a strand in the history of thought - ranging from codified statutes to looser social expectations - that uses particulars, more specifically examples, to produce norms.

Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks.

Aristotle is known as a philosopher and as a theorist of poetry, but he was also a composer of songs and verse.

This book examines Clement of Alexandria's interdisciplinary approach to nature contemplation-which he terms "e;physiology"e; and "e;physics"e;-showing its internal consistency even in the absence of a clear methodological outline.

This volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy.

In this illuminating book Andrew Gregory takes an original approach to Plato's philosophy of science by reassessing Plato's views on how we might investigate and explain the natural world.

This book seeks to restore Homer to his rightful place among the principal figures in political and moral philosophy.

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This book introduces a novel hylomorphic theory of material objects, according to which material objects are understood as comprised or composed of both matter and activity, where activity plays the role of form.

Identifies philosophy as a way of life in Augustine''s early writings and his ability to blend literary and philosophical themes.

These six diverse and difficult dialogues are seen together as aspects of Plato''s project of reformulating his theory of Forms.

This is a student-friendly introduction to a key text in Ancient Philosophy.

This Element shows that Plato was not a mathematical Platonist, and kept a clear distinction between mathematical and metaphysical realism.

This volume completes the translation in this series of Quaestiones attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias, the leading ancient commentator on Aristotle.

Brad Inwood presents a selection of his most influential essays on the philosophy of Seneca, the Roman Stoic thinker, statesman, and tragedian of the first century AD.

This volume presents a commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics Book 12 by pseudo-Alexander in a new translation accompanied by explanatory notes, introduction and indexes.

This book provides insights into the symposion''s importance in Greek culture by tracing the discursive power of its representations.

A stimulating intellectual history of Ptolemy's philosophy and his conception of a world in which mathematics reigns supremeThe Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most significant figures in the history of science.

This book provides a new approach to the study of the History of Roman Law.

This volume, the first devoted specifically to Speusippus in English, offers a new picture of Speusippus' philosophy via an in-depth analysis of the testimonia preserved by Aristotle.

Originally published in 1932, this book is based on a series of lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1931.

This book examines Clement of Alexandria's interdisciplinary approach to nature contemplation-which he terms "e;physiology"e; and "e;physics"e;-showing its internal consistency even in the absence of a clear methodological outline.

The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology.

This second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated with eleven new chapters and a new bibliography.

Originally published in 1991, Origins and Species seeks to understand the historical origins of Darwinism.

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

Thales the Measurer offers a comprehensive and iconoclastic account of Thales of Miletus, considering the full extent of our evidence to build a new picture of his intellectual interests and activity.

Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans of the fifth century are cast by historians of philosophy in four important roles: they are reputed to have originated the mathematical disciplines, harmonics, and, in a large measure, astronomy; they are said to have propounded theories of the nature of our universe to which, in differing ways, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus reacted; they are reputed to have made the alliance between religion and philosophy that made philosophy in the ancient world a way of life; and their thought is alleged to have exerted a major influence on Plato, and particularly on the metamathematical theories of his later years.

This fresh outlook on Socrates' political philosophy in Plato's early dialogues argues that it is both more subtle and less authoritarian than has been supposed.

Drawing on classical antiquity and Western and Eastern philosophy, Richard Sorabji tackles in Self the question of whether there is such a thing as the individual self or only a stream of consciousness.

This book reconstructs Aristotle''s account of desire from his various scattered remarks.

This book analyzes the rhetorical and visual strategies used in technical texts and non-technical literature to describe technological artifacts.

This book is a philosophical study of two major thinkers who span the period of late antiquity.

The first book to explicate and analyse Augustine''s seminal argument concerning humility and pride, especially in politics and philosophy.

This volume provides a clear, rigorous translation of one of the most important works of Platonic philosophy from late antiquity.

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

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A lively and accessible introduction to the Greek and Roman origins of our political ideasIn The Birth of Politics, Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democracy, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire.