Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

Outrageous, unfashionable, politically incorrect though many of Plato's opinions undoubtedly are, we should not just dismiss them as thoughts now unthinkable, but think through them, recognising the force of the arguments that led Plato to enunciate them and consider the counter-arguments he might have marshalled to meet contemporary objections.

The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life is the first comprehensive guide to animals in the ancient world, encompassing all aspects of the topic by featuring authoritative chapters on 33 topics by leading scholars in their fields.

While Plato's and Aristotle's theories of virtue have received extensive scholarly attention, less work has been done on Xenophon's portraits of virtue and on his attitude towards the theoretical issues connected with it.

Why Plato Wrote argues that Plato was not only the world s first systematic political philosopher, but also the western world s first think-tank activist and message man.

The description for this book, Proclus: A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements, will be forthcoming.

Provides a broad framework for engaging with ideas relevant to ancient Greek and Roman science, medicine and technology.

Unique in all of literature, the Confessions combines frank and profound psychological insight into Augustine's formative years along with sophisticated and beguiling reflections on some of the most important issues in philosophy and theology.

Like us, the ancient Greeks and Romans came to know and understand the world through their senses.

Hegel and Plato are united as political theorists by the convergence of their philosophical aspirations.

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In this work, Alexander Rosenthal Pubul presents a broad examination of the ancient philosophical question: "e;What is the good life?

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

This 2004 book examines the invention of ''theoretical philosophy'' in fourth-century Greece (BCE).

The classical conception of reason (or logos) has been repeatedly attacked in the modern era.

Explores a central paradox in Plotinus'' work: Plotinus writes about the One, which he tells us is ineffable.

Anthony Celano''s study explores how medieval authors recast Aristotle''s Nicomachean Ethics according to their own moral ideals.

Ancient ethical theories, based on the notions of virtue and happiness, have struck many as an attractive alternative to modern theories.

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In this 1988 book, Professor Lear introduces Aristotle''s philosophy and guides us through the central Aristotelian texts.

This monograph interprets the parable of the Prodigal Son (Lk.

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

This book explores a distinctive feature of ancient philosophy: the closeness between ethics and the study of the natural world.

The main aim of this book is to reconstruct a philosophical context for the Hieroglyphica of Horapollo, a late 5th century Greek study of hieroglyphic writing.

Illustrating the centrality of skill within ancient ethics, including Socrates' search for expertise in virtue, the Republic's 'craft of justice', Aristotle's delineation of the politike techne, the Stoics' 'art of life' and ancient Chinese ethics, this collection shows how skill has been an ethical touchstone from the beginning of philosophical thought.

Argues that Plato''s Charmides presents a unitary but incomplete argument intended to lead its readers to substantive philosophical insights.

This fully annotated volume offers the first English translation of the orations of Himerius of Athens, a prominent teacher of rhetoric in the fourth century A.

This exceptional book examines and explains Plato's answer to the normative question, "e;How ought we to live?

Humankind has a profound and complex relationship with the sea, a relationship that is extensively reflected in biology, psychology, religion, literature and poetry.

A new approach to Plato''s characterization of Socrates, through analysis of erôs and philosophy in four dialogues on love and friendship.

Sappho has been constructed as many things: proto-feminist, lesbian icon and even - by the Victorians - chaste headmistress of a girls' finishing school.

Lucretius' didactic masterpiece De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) is one of the most brilliant and powerful poems in the Latin language, a passionate attempt at dispelling humanity's fear of death and its enslavement by false beliefs about the gods, and a detailed exposition of Epicurean atomist physics.

Examines the unifying teleological theme in Plato''s dialogue the Timaeus-Critias.

Collects important papers on various key issues in Plato and Aristotle and on the early history of Greek optics.

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

This edition collects all the epigrams attributed to Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemos of Gadara (ca.

Gail Fine presents an original interpretation of a compelling puzzle in ancient philosophy.

Proclus' commentary on Plato's "e;Timaeus"e; is perhaps the most important surviving Neoplatonic commentary.

This volume offers new insights into ancient figurations of temporality by focusing on the relationship between gender and time across a range of genres.

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A running philosophical commentary to the two books Against the Physicists by the second-century sceptic philosopher Sextus Empiricus.

For centuries philosophers have wrestled with the dichotomy between individual freedom on the one hand and collective solidarity on the other.

In this volume Simplicius deals with Aristotle's account of the Presocratics, and for many of them he is our chief or even sole authority.

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

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

This book explores how philosophical and religious communities in the Roman Empire of the first and second centuries CE engaged with, and were shaped by, their relationship to texts and tradition in their quest for true religious knowledge or ultimate truth.

This is a collective study, in nine new essays, of the close connection between theology and cosmology in Stoic philosophy.

Drawing on unusually broad range of sources for this study of Imperial period philosophical thought, Michael Trapp examines the central issues of personal morality, political theory, and social organization: philosophy as the pursuit of self-improvement and happiness; the conceptualization and management of emotion; attitudes and obligations to others; ideas of the self and personhood; constitutional theory and the ruler; the constituents and working of the good community.

This book re-examines the drama and philosophy of Alcibiades I through the eyes of those interpreters who cherished it most.

Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback.