Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

This collection of groundbreaking new essays shows how Aristotle''s natural science illuminates fundamental topics in his philosophy.

This book argues that late antiquity introduced a legal form of punitive imprisonment, complicating the concept of the ''birth of the prison''.

This book analyses the developments in critical reasoning that transformed the conception of tradition, authority, knowledge and power in the late Republic.

This book provides a systematic examination of the relations between the key elements of Spinoza''s philosophy and the Stoics.

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

This study of Augustine''s Confessions presents his testimony of conversion as an antidote to modern culture''s tendency toward disbelief.

Erik Gunderson reads Seneca''s philosophy and tragedy together, exploring the possibility of enlightenment and the human capacity for wisdom and knowledge.

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

This study explores Marcion''s ideas through his writings and the writings of early Christian polemicists who shaped the idea of heresy.

Porphyry''s multifaceted Commentary is of major philosophical and musicological importance.

This study of Augustine''s Confessions presents his testimony of conversion as an antidote to modern culture''s tendency toward disbelief.

Erik Gunderson reads Seneca''s philosophy and tragedy together, exploring the possibility of enlightenment and the human capacity for wisdom and knowledge.

This book examines religious and ''scientific''/philosophical accounts of world-generation as represented by the figure of the Demiurge, or Craftsman-god.

This book explores the political implications of stories that Livy recounts in the first pentad of his history of Rome.

This book explores ancient thinking about causation and creation, considering the perspectives of key Christian and pagan thinkers.

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This book explores ancient thinking about causation and creation, considering the perspectives of key Christian and pagan thinkers.

This book explores the political implications of stories that Livy recounts in the first pentad of his history of Rome.

This book examines religious and ''scientific''/philosophical accounts of world-generation as represented by the figure of the Demiurge, or Craftsman-god.

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

This study explores Marcion''s ideas through his writings and the writings of early Christian polemicists who shaped the idea of heresy.

How did ancient philosophers understand the relationship between human capacities for thinking and our experiences of pleasure and pain?

This book analyzes important ancient responses to Hesiod''s five-part narrative of human history as keys to their broader revisions of ''Hesiod''.

This History comprises over forty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of the period 200–800 CE.

How did ancient philosophers understand the relationship between human capacities for thinking and our experiences of pleasure and pain?

This book analyzes important ancient responses to Hesiod''s five-part narrative of human history as keys to their broader revisions of ''Hesiod''.

This History comprises over forty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of the period 200–800 CE.

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

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

Rist explores how and why Augustine''s moral framework became distorted with time and proposes a return to a revitalized version of his thought.

Rist explores how and why Augustine''s moral framework became distorted with time and proposes a return to a revitalized version of his thought.

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

A study of the ethical underpinning of the rhetoric of citizenship in Plato''s Laws and its implementation through ritualized forms of performance.

This second edition is an accurate, readable and accessible translation of one of the world''s greatest ethical works.

A completely revised and considerably enlarged edition of this best-selling edition of Lucretius'' account of why death does not matter.

Stephen Gersch charts the influence of the late Greek philosopher Proclus from his own lifetime down to the Renaissance (500–1600 CE).

The first collection of ancient texts on the Sceptic Aenesidemus, providing a reference book for the history of Scepticism.

A study of the ethical underpinning of the rhetoric of citizenship in Plato''s Laws and its implementation through ritualized forms of performance.

This second edition is an accurate, readable and accessible translation of one of the world''s greatest ethical works.

A completely revised and considerably enlarged edition of this best-selling edition of Lucretius'' account of why death does not matter.

Stephen Gersch charts the influence of the late Greek philosopher Proclus from his own lifetime down to the Renaissance (500–1600 CE).

The first collection of ancient texts on the Sceptic Aenesidemus, providing a reference book for the history of Scepticism.

The third volume of Professor Guthrie''s great history of Greek thought deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates.

This book considers how religious beliefs and cultic rituals were given expression in the world of the Greek citizen.

This book challenges popular modern views of Socrates by examining the political significance of his activity in ancient Athens.

This book challenges popular modern views of Socrates by examining the political significance of his activity in ancient Athens.

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

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

Ludwig Edelstein (1902-1965) is well-known for his work on the history of anceint medicine and ancient philosophy, and to both of these areas he made contributions of primary importance.