Ancient Books


The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues Best Price: $50.46 This book is an interpretation of Plato in general, and several dialogues in particular, from...	Ikaria: A Love Odyssey on a Greek Island Best Price: $10.70 Ikaria: A Love Odyssey on a Greek Island. Nonfiction by an author who has traveled to Greece...	Reason and Emotion Best Price: $45.00 This collection of essays will of great value not least to students of Philosophy and Classics,...	Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers: Humanity and the Humane in Ancient Philosophy and Literature Best Price: $47.00 Animal rights do not feature explicitly in ancient thought. Indeed the notion of natural rights...	Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus Best Price: $29.70 Rationalist modern paradigms of philosophy relegated the figure of Iamblichus of Chalcis to a...



Early Socratic Dialogues: Ion; Laches; Lysis; Charmides; Hippias Major; Hippias Minor; Euthydemus (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $3.00 I cannot say much for how accurate the translation is but this text does provide some dialogs...	The Symposium of Plato: The Shelley Translation Best Price: $7.38 In the summer of 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley pulled himself away from a flurry of other projects...	Neoplatonism and Gnosticism (Studies in Neoplatonism) Best Price: $26.68	On Aristotle's Physics 7 Simplicius (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) Best Price: $65.00	The Golden Verses of Pythagoras Best Price: $19.75 These transcendent verses elucidate the mysteries and wisdom of ancient literature-With this...



The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece Best Price: $57.00 In this provocative new book, Edward Schiappa argues that rhetorical theory did not originate...	From Empedocles to Wittgenstein: Historical Essays in Philosophy Best Price: $46.39 From Empedocles to Wittgenstein is a collection of fifteen historical essays in philosophy,...	Essays on Aristotle's De Anima (Clarendon Aristotle Series) Best Price: $52.86 I read these works for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. Soul- De Anima Latin for Greek word...	Logic and the Imperial Stoa (Philosophia Antiqua) (Philosophia Antiqua) Best Price: $94.56	Greek Lyric, Volume III, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and Others (Loeb Classical Library No. 476) Best Price: $22.86 The most important poets writing in Greek in the sixth century BCE came from Sicily and...

Boethius and Dialogue: Literary Method in the Consolation of Philosophy Seth Lerer's critical study of the literary method employed in Boethius' masterpiece, "The...	Confucian Spirituality I (World Spirituality) Best Price: $14.88 Insights into this spiritual richness regarding topics such as self-cultivation,...	Heraclitus: Fragments (Phoenix Supplementary Volume) Best Price: $22.95 The Phoenix Pre-Socratics is a good book series, but I wasn't too impressed by this offering....	Revaluing Ethics: Aristotle's Dialectical Pedagogy (S U N Y Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy) Best Price: $19.75 Challenges influential interpretations of Aristotelian ethical and political philosophy.	Introducing Postmodernism Best Price: $11.04 Postmodernism impacts our approach to the arts, our understanding of history, and our...

Socrates on Trial: A play based on Aristophanes' Clouds and Plato's Apology, Crito, and Phaedo adapted for modern performance Best Price: $14.50 More than 2,400 years after his death, Socrates remains an iconic but controversial figure. To...	Xenophon VII (Hiero. Agesilaus. Constitution of the Lacedaemonians. Ways and Means. Cavalry Commander. Art of Horsemanship. On Hunting. Constitution of the Athenians) Loeb Classical Library Best Price: $20.00 Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE ) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left...	Philebus Best Price: $5.91 I have read several Hackett translations of Plato and Hackett always publishes quality...	Socrates and the State Best Price: $32.90 In accordance with Plato's 'Apology', Kraut gives a quite convincing rendition of events in 4th...	Roman Sports and Spectacles: A Sourcebook (Focus Classical Library) Best Price: $7.80 Translation from orignial source material with introductory essay.

The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy (Hellenistic Culture and Society) Best Price: $48.99 This pleasurable book fills a need by representing the Cynics in one affordable volume. The...	Al-Farabi's Commentary and Short Treatise on Aristotle's De Interpretatione (Classical and Medieval Logic Texts, Vol 3) Drawing on a new study of the Arabic manuscripts, Zimmermann here provides an introduction and...	Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing Best Price: $82.40 Plato's dialogues are usually understood as simple examples of philosophy in action. In this...	Origins of Philosophy Dr. Drew A. Hyland traces the origins of philosophy from its earliest roots in Babylonian and...	Dialectic and Dialogue: Plato's Practice of Philosophical Inquiry (Spep Studies in Historical Philosophy) Best Price: $76.48 Throughout many fields, many issues, and across many borders dialogue has been listed a panacea...

Galen: On Antecedent Causes (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries) Best Price: $53.03 This new edition of a short but fascinating text by Galen on causal theory contains the first...	Heresiography in Context: Hippolytus' Elenchos As a Source for Greek Philosophy (Philosophia Antiqua) Best Price: $140.00 The study of the Elenchos (c. 225 CE) involves the whole range of ancient interpretative...	Myth and Thought Among the Greeks When Jean-Pierre Vernant first published Myth and Thought among the Greeks in 1965, it...	Neoplatonism and Indian Philosophy (Studies in Neoplatonism-Ancient and Modern, 9) Best Price: $23.93 Explores connections between Neoplatonism and Indian philosophy. BACKCOVER: During the last two...	Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity Best Price: $51.99 This landmark study examines the role played by the rediscovery of the writings of the ancient...

The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Death Scene from Phaedo Best Price: $0.99 This purchase saved me a lot of money compared to the price in the campus bookstore.	Iamblichus: De Mysteriis (Writings from the Greco-Roman World, V. 4.) (Writings from the Greco-Roman World, V. 4.) Best Price: $39.80 I was very excited to get my copy of this classic work. From all the reviews I read I thought...	Ennead III.6: On the Impassivity of the Bodiless Best Price: $166.34 Plotinus (c. AD 205-270) can be regarded as the greatest Greek philosopher of late Antiquity,...	The Theaetetus of Plato Best Price: $11.99 A remarkable book, destined to become a classic in its field. In the lucidity, penetration, and...	Topica et Sophistici Elenchi (Oxford Classical Texts Ser) Best Price: $42.17

Introducing Postmodernism Best Price: $11.04 Postmodernism impacts our approach to the arts, our understanding of history, and our...	Socrates on Trial: A play based on Aristophanes' Clouds and Plato's Apology, Crito, and Phaedo adapted for modern performance Best Price: $14.50 More than 2,400 years after his death, Socrates remains an iconic but controversial figure. To...	Xenophon VII (Hiero. Agesilaus. Constitution of the Lacedaemonians. Ways and Means. Cavalry Commander. Art of Horsemanship. On Hunting. Constitution of the Athenians) Loeb Classical Library Best Price: $20.00 Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE ) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left...	Philebus Best Price: $5.91 I have read several Hackett translations of Plato and Hackett always publishes quality...	Socrates and the State Best Price: $32.90 In accordance with Plato's 'Apology', Kraut gives a quite convincing rendition of events in 4th...

Roman Sports and Spectacles: A Sourcebook (Focus Classical Library) Best Price: $7.80 Translation from orignial source material with introductory essay.	The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy (Hellenistic Culture and Society) Best Price: $48.99 This pleasurable book fills a need by representing the Cynics in one affordable volume. The...	Al-Farabi's Commentary and Short Treatise on Aristotle's De Interpretatione (Classical and Medieval Logic Texts, Vol 3) Drawing on a new study of the Arabic manuscripts, Zimmermann here provides an introduction and...	Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing Best Price: $82.40 Plato's dialogues are usually understood as simple examples of philosophy in action. In this...	Origins of Philosophy Dr. Drew A. Hyland traces the origins of philosophy from its earliest roots in Babylonian and...

Metaphysics and Method in Plato's Statesman Best Price: $70.96 At the beginning of his Metaphysics, Aristotle attributed several strange-sounding theses to...	Plato's Reception of Parmenides Best Price: $121.67 Imagine a philosopher today who frequently uses Kantian concepts, but who never mentions Kant...	Classical Philosophy (Oxford Readers) Best Price: $35.90 Classical Philosophy introduces students to several of the essential philosophical questions...	Jewish Women Philosophers of First-Century Alexandria: Philo's 'Therapeutae' Reconsidered Best Price: $148.45 The 'Therapeutae' were a Jewish group of ascetic philosophers who lived outside Alexandria in...	Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XXXIV (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy) Best Price: $39.36 Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient...

Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy Best Price: $51.00 Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy is truly remarkable scholarship, illuminating,...	Aristotle in 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 Minutes) Best Price: $3.75 I enjoyed this 90-minute romp through the world of Aristotle. Starting with a discussion of his...	The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 3: Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, Protagoras (The Dialogues of Plato) Best Price: $19.65 R. E. Allen's superb new translations of four Socratic dialogues -- Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches,...	Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato Best Price: $86.29 This book explores the complex relationship between myth and philosophy in writings by Greek...

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