Ancient Books


Parmenides and the History of Dialectic: Three EssaysParmenides and the History of Dialectic: Three Essays
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Phaedrus (Kessinger Publishing's Rare Reprints)Phaedrus (Kessinger Publishing's Rare Reprints)
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PHAEDRUS: I admit that there is reason in what you say, and I too will be reasonable, and will...
Plato's Republic: A Reader's Guide (Reader's Guides)Plato's Republic: A Reader's Guide (Reader's Guides)
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Aristotle: The Growth and Structure of his ThoughtAristotle: The Growth and Structure of his Thought
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Dr Lloyd writes for those who want to discover and explore Aristotle's work for themselves. He...
The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato; Golden Sayings of Epictetus; Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Harvard Classics, Part 2)The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato; Golden Sayings of Epictetus; Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Harvard Classics, Part 2)
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1909. Contents: The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato translated by Benjamin Jowett. The Golden...


On Aristotle's Categories 7-8: Simplicius (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)On Aristotle's Categories 7-8: Simplicius (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)
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Socratic StudiesSocratic Studies
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This book is a companion volume to Vlastos' "Socrates: Ironist and Moral...
AphorismsAphorisms
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Heat produces the following bad effects on those who use it frequently: enervation of the fleshy...
Outlines of the History of Greek PhilosophyOutlines of the History of Greek Philosophy
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Providing an essential overview of all the main tenets of ancient Greek philosophy in one...
Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle (Oxford Aristotle Studies)Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle (Oxford Aristotle Studies)
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Aristotle attaches particular significance to the homomyny of many of the central concepts in...


Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism: The Latin Tradition (Publications in Medieval Studies)Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism: The Latin Tradition (Publications in Medieval Studies)Al-Farabi and Aristotelian Syllogistics: Greek Theory and Islamic Practice (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science)Al-Farabi and Aristotelian Syllogistics: Greek Theory and Islamic Practice (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science)
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Al-Farabi and Aristotelian Syllogistics deals with an important chapter in the history of...
Essays on the Philosophy of SocratesEssays on the Philosophy of Socrates
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The last two decades have witnessed a virtual explosion of research in Socratic philosophy. This...
Nietzsche as Philosopher: Expanded Edition (Columbia Classics in Philosophy)Nietzsche as Philosopher: Expanded Edition (Columbia Classics in Philosophy)
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There are some wild readings of Nietzsche out there (nothing wrong with that), but in this book...
On Aristotle's Prior Analytics 1.8-13: (With 1.17,36B35-37A31) (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)On Aristotle's Prior Analytics 1.8-13: (With 1.17,36B35-37A31) (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)
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Plato's Statesman: Part III of The Being of the Beautiful (Being of the Beautiful, Part III)Plato's Statesman: Part III of The Being of the Beautiful (Being of the Beautiful, Part III)
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This book, the culmination of Benardete's masterful translation of what Jacob Klein was pleased...
Philodemus On Piety: Critical Text with Commentary Part 1 (Philodemus on Piety PT. 1)Philodemus On Piety: Critical Text with Commentary Part 1 (Philodemus on Piety PT. 1)
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This book offers a new critical text of the "philosophical" part of Philodemus' De...
Visions of Utopia (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities) (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)Visions of Utopia (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities) (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)
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From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem...
Aristotle on Perception (Clarendon Aristotle Series)Aristotle on Perception (Clarendon Aristotle Series)
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Stephen Everson presents a comprehensive new study of Aristotle's account of perception and...
Metaphysics and Method in Plato's StatesmanMetaphysics and Method in Plato's Statesman
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At the beginning of his Metaphysics, Aristotle attributed several strange-sounding theses to...

Studies in Greek Philosophy, Volume 1: The PresocraticsStudies in Greek Philosophy, Volume 1: The Presocratics
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Vlastos' book is an example of selective blindness and what I call "creative...
The Aesthetic Face of Being: Art in the Theology of Pavel FlorenskyThe Aesthetic Face of Being: Art in the Theology of Pavel Florensky
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Fr Pavel Florensky (1882-1937) was one of the most genial figures of Russia's Silver Age at the...
Aristotle on the Common Sense (Oxford Aristotle Studies)Aristotle on the Common Sense (Oxford Aristotle Studies)
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Apart from using our eyes to see and our ears to hear, we regularly and effortlessly perform a...
On the Natural Faculties (Loeb Classical Library)On the Natural Faculties (Loeb Classical Library)
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If the work of Hippocrates is taken as representing the foundation upon which the edifice of...
Virtue and Knowledge: An Introduction to Ancient Greek EthicsVirtue and Knowledge: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Ethics
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AristotleAristotle
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Unfortunately I can not be extremely positive about this work of Ross. Still how you will...
Ethics (Companions to Ancient Thought)Ethics (Companions to Ancient Thought)
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This collection of nine essays on ancient Greek ethics is the best volume of its kind. Fine...
Introduction to Greek PhilosophyIntroduction to Greek Philosophy
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Essays on Aristotle's PoeticsEssays on Aristotle's Poetics
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I read these works for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. Poetry appeals to human passions and...
Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, TragedyMoney and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy
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How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? Richard...

Nature, Contemplation, and the OneNature, Contemplation, and the One
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John Deck's book--originally his dissertation--is the single best introduction to Neoplatonic...
Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and MartyrHypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr
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This book is very good. The historical context about Hypatia's time and life is very...
The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry Revisited: Plato and the Greek Literary TraditionThe Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry Revisited: Plato and the Greek Literary Tradition
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In this study, Levin explores Plato's engagement with the Greek literary tradition in his...
Aristotle's First Principles (Clarendon Aristotle Series)Aristotle's First Principles (Clarendon Aristotle Series)
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Exploring Aristotle's philosophical method and the merits of his conclusions, Irwin here shows...
War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of ViolenceWar in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence
War Ethics/Theology: Professor Niditch fresh examination of the narratives on war in the Hebrew...

Philosophia Togata I: Essays on Philosophy and Roman SocietyPhilosophia Togata I: Essays on Philosophy and Roman Society
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In recent years, the mutual interaction between philosophy and Roman political and cultural life...
Ancient Greek Philosophy: An IntroductionAncient Greek Philosophy: An Introduction
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Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas II (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy)Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas II (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy)
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This volume contains eleven articles and book chapters by John Wippel that have appeared since...
Rhetoric and Irony: Western Literacy and Western LiesRhetoric and Irony: Western Literacy and Western Lies
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This pathbreaking study integrates the histories of rhetoric, literacy, and literary aesthetics...
Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical IndividualismPersonal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism
David Norton's book is an long overdue corrective on years of abuse heaped upon ethical...

Plato's IndividualsPlato's Individuals
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Contradicting the long-held belief that Aristotle was the first to discuss individuation...
Self-Knowledge in Plato's "Phaedrus"Self-Knowledge in Plato's "Phaedrus"Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics"Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics"
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Gabriel Richardson Lear presents a bold new approach to one of the enduring debates about...
The Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer, and PoliticsThe Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer, and Politics
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And what a mind it was! Gladstone was undoubtedly the most deep-thinking and intellectual prime...
Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of PhilosophyGenres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy
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People generally recognize that Socratic dialogues are "dialogical" in some fuller...

On Aristotle's "on Sense Perception" (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Series)On Aristotle's "on Sense Perception" (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Series)
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Epistemology after Protagoras: Responses to Relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and DemocritusEpistemology after Protagoras: Responses to Relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus
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Relativism, the position that things are for each as they seem to each, was first formulated in...
The Skeptic Way: Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of PyrrhonismThe Skeptic Way: Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism
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The Outlines of Pyrrhonism by the 2nd century A.D. Greek physician Sextus Empiricus was...
Sextus Empiricus: Against the Physicists. Against the Ethicists. (Loeb Classical Library No. 311)Sextus Empiricus: Against the Physicists. Against the Ethicists. (Loeb Classical Library No. 311)
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The word "physicists" in the title and text is somewhat of an anachronism. The...
Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle's Topics 1 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle's Topics 1 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)
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Dialectic and Dialogue: Plato's Practice of Philosophical Inquiry (Spep Studies in Historical Philosophy)Dialectic and Dialogue: Plato's Practice of Philosophical Inquiry (Spep Studies in Historical Philosophy)
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Throughout many fields, many issues, and across many borders dialogue has been listed a panacea...
Diogenes of Sinope: The Man in the Tub (Contributions in Philosophy)Diogenes of Sinope: The Man in the Tub (Contributions in Philosophy)
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This book is fabulous! Navia chronicles the life of Diogenes in an academic and professional...
Aquinas Against the Averroists (Purdue University Series in the History of Philosophy)Aquinas Against the Averroists (Purdue University Series in the History of Philosophy)
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Professor McInerny's translation of this polemical work of Aquinas' is clear and readable. His...
On Ideas: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Theory of FormsOn Ideas: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Theory of Forms
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The Peri ideon (On Ideas) is the only work in which Aristotle systematically sets out and...
Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria: Edition, Translation and EssaysHerophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria: Edition, Translation and Essays
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In the history of medicine, popularity is mainly focused on the famous scientists such as...

Early Greek PhilosophyEarly Greek Philosophy
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For those who are considering this book, I found it accessible to beginners, because it was the...
The Greeks: An Introduction to their CultureThe Greeks: An Introduction to their Culture
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I had to read this book for my HRS class which is an introductory class on Ancient Greeks. When...
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XXXII: Summer 2007 (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy)Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XXXII: Summer 2007 (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy)
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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient...
Thales of Miletus: The Beginnings of Western Science and Philosophy (Western Philosophy Series)Thales of Miletus: The Beginnings of Western Science and Philosophy (Western Philosophy Series)
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Passions and Perceptions: Studies in Hellenistic Philosophy of MindPassions and Perceptions: Studies in Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind
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The philosophers of the Hellenistic schools in ancient Greece and Rome (Epicureans, Stoics,...
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