Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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.

Shows how ancient philosophers understood productive knowledge and used it to explain ethics, rhetoric, the arts, politics and cosmology.

Thirteen newly-commissioned essays that deepen our understanding of Aristotle''s key concepts, including living, form, reason, and capacity.

Shows how ancient philosophers understood productive knowledge and used it to explain ethics, rhetoric, the arts, politics and cosmology.

Thirteen newly-commissioned essays that deepen our understanding of Aristotle''s key concepts, including living, form, reason, and capacity.

The first detailed study of The Pythagorean Precepts, which present the Pythagorean way of life praised by Plato.

Elucidates the language, literary style and distinctive approach to the philosophy of Seneca''s letters in their historical context.

Explores what it was like to argue and to live as a practitioner of Pyrrhonist skepticism.

This Element defends an interpretation of Plato''s Ion on which its primary concern is with audience reception of poetry.

This Element examines how Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Sextus Empiricus approached relative change.

Explores the origins and development of the Jewish belief in the ''Evil Inclination'' and the impact on early Christian thought.

Explains for the first time the genesis and early form of both Indian and Greek philosophy, and their striking similarities.

Divides Aristotle''s concept of lexis into three interconnected levels, exposing numerous valuable statements on language and style.

Offers a collection of essays exploring notions of authority and authorship through ancient Greek and Roman philosophy.

This Element highlights Aristotle views on the intelligent capacities of women and their crucial role in practical life.

This Element defends an interpretation of Plato''s Ion on which its primary concern is with audience reception of poetry.

This Element examines how Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Sextus Empiricus approached relative change.

Explains for the first time the genesis and early form of both Indian and Greek philosophy, and their striking similarities.

Divides Aristotle''s concept of lexis into three interconnected levels, exposing numerous valuable statements on language and style.

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

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

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

Reveals the importance of Gellius'' Noctes Atticae for the history of reading, thought, and intellectual culture in the Graeco-Roman world.

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

The first detailed study of The Pythagorean Precepts, which present the Pythagorean way of life praised by Plato.

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

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

Provides a student edition of Plato and Xenophon''s accounts of how Socrates, on trial for his life, defended himself and his philosophy.

A history of ancient literary culture told through the quantitative facts of canon, geography, and scale.

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

Argues that Aristotle''s psychology is shaped by his critical reception of earlier theories of soul, including the Presocratic and Platonic.

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

Argues that Aristotle''s psychology is shaped by his critical reception of earlier theories of soul, including the Presocratic and Platonic.

A comprehensive, interdisciplinary history of Plato''s Academy, the most prominent philosophical school in antiquity, which lasted for about 300 years.

Provides the first full study of Aristotle''s notion of evil and sheds light on its content, potential, and influence.

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

Traces the concept of kosmos as order, arrangement, and ornament in ancient philosophy, literature, and aesthetics.

Surveys this influential concept from antiquity through medieval theological debates to Renaissance Neoplatonism and etiquette guides.

Surveys this influential concept from antiquity through medieval theological debates to Renaissance Neoplatonism and etiquette guides.

Focusing on philosophical method in Augustine''s early dialogues, explains their pedagogical program and its relevance to current debates.

Masterfully explains Augustine''s major work The City of God book by book through engagement with theology, history and political science.

Masterfully explains Augustine''s major work The City of God book by book through engagement with theology, history and political science.

The second edition of James E.

A comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of ancient Greek ethical thought, investigating the figures, movements, and themes of this branch of philosophy.

The second edition of James E.