Ancient Books


Nicomachean Ethics: Books VIII and IX (Clarendon Aristotle Series) Best Price: $44.99 In Books VIII and IX of his masterpiece of moral philosophy, the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle...	The Texture of Being: Essays in First Philosophy (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy) Best Price: $59.95 Kenneth Schmitz has spent an illustrious career as a philosopher striving to unite what Hegel...	Aristotle : History of Animals, Books I-III (Loeb Classical Library No. 437) Best Price: $22.80 In History of Animals Aristotle analyzes "differences"--in parts, activities, modes...	Platonic Investigations (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy)	Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing Best Price: $83.25 Plato's dialogues are usually understood as simple examples of philosophy in action. In this...



Galen and Chrysippus on the Soul: Argument and Refutation in the De Placitis Books Ii-III (Philosophia Antiqua) Best Price: $198.00 This volume deals with books II and III of the On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato by...	Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Volume Two Best Price: $74.71	Kierkegaard's Existential Ethics (Modern Revivals in Philosophy) Best Price: $59.94	The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library: An Anthology of Ancient Writings Which Relate to Pythagoras and Pythagorean Philosophy This is a refrence book with a lot of material and good citations. I didint sit down and read it...	Reading Aristotle's Ethics: Virtue, Rhetoric, and Political Philosophy Best Price: $18.95 I read these works for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. Definition of Rhetoric- capacity of...



Neoplatonism after Derrida (Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition) Best Price: $173.00 This volume deals with the relation between Derrida and Neoplatonism (ancient, patristic,...	Reasonably Radical: Deliberative Liberalism and the Politics of Identity Best Price: $45.95	The Ultimate Frontier I would like to attest to the following. I first read UTF in 1977. The book struck home in...	De Rerum Natura: The Latin Text of Lucretius Best Price: $44.97 Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99?55 b.c.) is known primarily as the Roman author of the long...	Iamblichus and the Theory of the Vehicle of the Soul (American Classical Studies) Best Price: $25.04

The Culai Heritage Best Price: $19.99 This has to be one of the greatest collection of Fantasy volumes I have ever read. In truth this...	Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle (Oxford Aristotle Studies) Best Price: $113.88 Aristotle attaches particular significance to the homomyny of many of the central concepts in...	Chorology (Studies in Continental Thought) Best Price: $13.49 This is a both an engrossing and at times exasperating text on the most obscure part of highly...	Socrates' Second Sailing: On Plato's Republic Best Price: $21.60 As the other reviewer indicated, this is not a simple commentary. On the other hand, however,...	Plutarch's Cimon And Pericles With The Funeral Oration Of Pericles Best Price: $18.13 I am going to leave the general discussions of the merits of the entirety of Plutarch's Lives to...

Abhidharma Buddhism to 150 A.D. (Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, Vol. 7) Best Price: $31.40 Volumes VII and VIII of this series deal with early Buddhism a few centuries after the life of...	Dio Chrysostom: Discourses 12-30 (Loeb Classical Library No. 339) Best Price: $21.61 Dio Chrysostom's Discourses 1-11 by the Loeb Classical Library makes excellent reading for...	Dio Chrysostom: Discourses 37-60 (Loeb Classical Library No. 376) Best Price: $22.80 Dio Cocceianus Chrysostomus, ca. 40?ca. 120 CE , of Prusa in Bithynia, Asia Minor, inherited...	Politics: Books V and VI (Clarendon Aristotle Series) Best Price: $53.99 Books V and VI of Aristotle's Politics constitute a manual on practical politics. David Keyt...	Iamblichus: On the Pythagorean Life (Liverpool University Press - Translated Texts for Historians) Best Price: $21.00 The Pythagorean Life is the most extensive surviving source on Pythagoreanism, and has wider...

Plato's Republic: A Reader's Guide (Reader's Guides) Best Price: $3.95 "Continuum's Reader's Guides" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to...	Dreams in Late Antiquity Best Price: $28.95 In the first half of this book, Dr. Miller carefully goes through how Graeco-Roman people in...	Dialogue and Discovery: A Study in Socratic Method (S U N Y Series in Philosophy) Best Price: $22.49	Heraclitus: Homeric Problems (Writings from the Greco-Roman World) (Writings from the Greco-Roman World) Best Price: $16.82 Little is known of Heraclitus the Stoic other than that he was a grammarian who wrote a treatise...	Plato: Protagoras Best Price: $4.95 In this Protagoras dialogue, the conversation is about virtue--what it is and if it can be...

The Neoplatonists Best Price: $26.99 The Neoplatonist philosophers who flourished between the third and sixth centuries AD had a...	Platonic Ethics, Old and New Best Price: $18.68 "Platonic Ethics, Old and New" by Julia Annas. Sometimes this book is hard to find -...	Plato: Clitophon (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries) Best Price: $113.05 The Clitophon, a dialogue generally ascribed to Plato, is significant for focusing on Socrates'...	Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus (Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy) Best Price: $24.00 In his final play, Sophocles returned to the ever-popular character of Oedipus, the blind...	Master of Wisdom: Writings of the Buddhist Master Nagarjuna (Tibetan Translation Series) Best Price: $39.50 Dr. Lindtner is a scholar and his book is a preciousness for all readers. A reference title of...

The Six Enneads Best Price: $33.36 But does not Likeness by way of Virtue imply Likeness to some being that has Virtue? To what...	The Nature of the Gods (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $5.98 I began reading the Stoics to get background on St. Paul's evangelistic sermon in Athens (Acts...	Early China/Ancient Greece: Thinking Through Comparisons (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) Best Price: $25.49 The first edited volume in Sino-Hellenic Studies, this book compares early Chinese and ancient...	Philoponus: Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World (The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)	Early Philosophical Shiism: The Isma'ili Neoplatonism of Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) Best Price: $27.91 The Ismailis, among whom are the followers of the Aga Khan, rose to prominence during the fourth...

Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy Best Price: $85.00 Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy is truly remarkable scholarship, illuminating,...	Selected Dialogues of Plato: The Benjamin Jowett Translation (Modern Library Classics) Best Price: $6.50 The review criticizing Jowett's translation of the Republic is irrelevant for two reasons. ...	Justus Lipsius: On Constancy (Bristol Phoenix Press - The Neo-Latin Library) Best Price: $44.42 Lipsius? De Constantia of 1584 is a key Humanist text. A dialogue in two books, conceived as a...	The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry Revisited: Plato and the Greek Literary Tradition Best Price: $48.00 In this study, Levin explores Plato's engagement with the Greek literary tradition in his...	The Structure of Objects Best Price: $68.45 Kathrin Koslicki offers an analysis of ordinary material objects, those material objects to...

Seneca: A Philosopher in Politics The relationship between Seneca's prose works and his career as a first-century Roman statesman...	Interpreting Plato Best Price: $120.29 Despite Plato's various warnings not to do so, his dialogues have been studied as systematic...	Aristotle: Minor Works: On Colours. On Things Heard. Physiognomics. On Plants. On Marvellous Things Heard. Mechanical Problems. On Indivisible Lines. The ... Gorgias (Loeb Classical Library No. 307) Best Price: $22.85 Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 ...	Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy Best Price: $75.40 I read this book for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. I think Aristotle's ethics is his most...	Hellenistic Poetry (Clarendon Paperbacks) Best Price: $52.79 This broad study of the Hellenistic poets of the third century B.C. provides a much-needed...

Hypatia of Alexandria (Revealing Antiquity) Best Price: $20.00 Whether your interest is women scholars or female scientists in antiquity, Christian history or...	Aristotle on Substance Best Price: $28.75 This book explores a fundamental tension in Aristotle's metaphysics: how can an entity such as a...	Apuleius: A Latin Sophist Best Price: $34.70 This book is a response to the literary pleasures and scholarly problems of reading the texts of...	Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy Best Price: $165.00 The only encyclopedia in English specific to the field of Classical Philosophy, this work...	Of Art and Wisdom: Plato's Understanding of Techne Best Price: $59.00 David Roochnik, a former student of Stanley Rosen, provides a clear and persuasive analysis of...

Aristotle on the Many Senses of Priority (Journal of the History of Philosphy) Best Price: $10.50 Cleary discusses the origin, development, and use of the many senses of priority as a central...	Voices of Ancient Philosophy: An Introductory Reader Best Price: $48.75 Julia Annas has produced a remarkable volume intended as a reader for introductory ancient...	Rereading Aristotle's Rhetoric (Security Continuum: Global Pol) Best Price: $29.97 I read these works for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. Definition of Rhetoric- capacity of...	Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections: Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture Best Price: $33.48 It had always intrigued me how ancient Greek culture, cradle of Western civilization, compared...	The Rise of the Imperial Self Best Price: $77.79 American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword; book reviews Commonweal September 13, 1996, Pg....

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