Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

Ancient theories of posthuman transformation can shape, chasten, and reform modern (biotechnical) theories of posthuman enhancement.

Full literary-critical study of Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles, reassessing their importance for the history of Greek poetics.

Challenges the idea that Plato is a secular thinker, exploring the interaction of philosophy and Greek religion in the dialogues.

Challenges the idea that Plato is a secular thinker, exploring the interaction of philosophy and Greek religion in the dialogues.

Explores the impact of the governing method of hypothesis in Plato''s Phaedo on the dialogues'' arguments for the soul''s immortality.

Re-examines the concept of immortality in ancient philosophy from the Presocratics to Augustine.

Explores the philosophical import and use of musical notions in crucial moments and authors of the Roman Imperial period.

Re-examines the concept of immortality in ancient philosophy from the Presocratics to Augustine.

Explores the philosophical import and use of musical notions in crucial moments and authors of the Roman Imperial period.

Explores the impact of the governing method of hypothesis in Plato''s Phaedo on the dialogues'' arguments for the soul''s immortality.

Sheds light on the meaning, import and philosophical outlook of the notion of authority throughout the Platonist tradition.

Ancient theories of posthuman transformation can shape, chasten, and reform modern (biotechnical) theories of posthuman enhancement.

A new reading of Augustine''s City of God which considers the status of politics within Augustine''s sacramental worldview.

De mundo is a protreptic to philosophy offering a unique view of God and the cosmos, inspired by Aristotle.

De mundo is a protreptic to philosophy offering a unique view of God and the cosmos, inspired by Aristotle.

Explores one of the most creative interactions in history with a lasting influence on law and philosophy.

Explores ancient biology and cosmology as two sciences that shed light on one another in their goals and methods.

Critical edition, translation, and extended interpretation of this important work which reveals the operation of Aristotle''s methodology.

A pioneering, original work of synthesis that traces modern ideas about systems science and sustainable living back to Classical antiquity.

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

A pioneering, original work of synthesis that traces modern ideas about systems science and sustainable living back to Classical antiquity.

Explores ancient biology and cosmology as two sciences that shed light on one another in their goals and methods.

First systematic treatment of Aristotle''s account of ontological priority in the Categories.

Presents a new translation with commentary exploring the final book of Aristotle''s Ethics in a philosophically rigorous yet interpretatively open way.

Explores one of the most creative interactions in history with a lasting influence on law and philosophy.

Scholarly new translation of this preeminent ancient history of Greek philosophy, recounting the lives, thought, and writings of leading figures.

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

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

Applies Aristotle''s argument - that citizenship is like friendship - to the liberal and democratic societies of the present day.

Challenges the long-held view that Xenophon is pro-Spartan, arguing that his stance is, rather, critical and philosophical.

A new Companion offering student-friendly essays on this major figure in the Platonic tradition and in Greek philosophy.

A new Companion offering student-friendly essays on this major figure in the Platonic tradition and in Greek philosophy.

This book explores the birth of the scientific understanding of motion in early Greek thought up to Aristotle.

This book explores the birth of the scientific understanding of motion in early Greek thought up to Aristotle.

Examines the first theory of consciousness in Western philosophy, dispelling the dogma that consciousness studies begins with Descartes.

Presents the best scholarship on Augustine''s Confessions which will facilitate a better understanding of this masterpiece.

An original exploration of Ancient Greek conceptions of the relationship between memory, time, knowledge and identity across diverse genres.

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

A rich and wide-ranging Companion to Plato''s philosophy that is accessible to students while of equal interest to scholars.

Examines the history and key concepts of Christian Platonism, and engages issues such as the environment, natural science and materialism.

Studies the different conceptions of dialectic (art of argumentation, logic) during the Hellenistic and early Imperial periods.

Explores a wide range of affects, affect theory, and literature to consolidate a fresh understanding of literary affect.

Explores the process by which the intellectual speculations pursued by Plato assumed the nature of a philosophical system.

Annotated translation of a key text in the history of medical and philosophical thinking about the human body.

Ground-breaking study revealing the thrill and moral power of the ancient Roman story-world and its ancestral tales of bloody heroism.

Provides an accessible account of the variety and subtlety of Greek and Roman philosophy of death, from Homer to Marcus Aurelius.

Explores the connections between art and play in ancient Greek thought, especially that of Plato and Aristotle.

Examines the history and key concepts of Christian Platonism, and engages issues such as the environment, natural science and materialism.

Do the gods love you?

Historically and philosophically informed introduction to the embryological, zoological, and medical views presented in this sophisticated and challenging text.