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Contains information on over 2,300 ancient Western philosophers, from Abammon to Zoticus. Covering the period from the seventh century BC...

In the last fifty years the field of Late Antiquity has advanced significantly. Today we have a picture of this...

Typically, the first decade of Friedrich Nietzsche's career is considered a sort of pr�cis to his mature thinking. Yet his...

Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. Through systematic...

Volume I presents the texts in new translations by the authors, and these are accompanied by a philosophical and historical...

Platonists beginning in the Old Academy itself and up to and including Plotinus struggled to understand and articulate the relation...

Brings the different aspects of the study of ancient wisdom together and presents it as a subject in its own...

Becoming god was an ideal of many ancient Greek philosophers, as was the life of reason, which they equated with...

Socrates, the largely enigmatic Greek thinker, is universally considered to have laid the foundations of western philosophy. His philosophy, available...

The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the...

'Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and...

Exploring the political ideology of Republicanism under the Roman emperors of the first century AD, Sam Wilkinson puts forward the...

The Peripatetics explores the development of Peripatetic thought from Theophrastus and Strato to the work of the commentator Alexander of...

Opening into the most Secret Philosophy, read this excerpt from Atwood's "Suggestive Inquiry Into the Hermetic Mystery," which concerns advanced...

In eighteen lively chapters, Andrew Pessin examines the most unusual ideas from the ancient Greeks and contemporary thinkers, how they...

Provides an in-depth analysis of the differences between the Greek and Hebrew philosophies and religions while exaimining the consequences of...

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive account of the major philosophical works on friendship and its relationship...

Philoponus' On Aristotle Categories 1-5 discusses the nature of universals, preserving the views of Philoponus' teacher Ammonius, as well as...

This book examines the role Plato accords to imagination in the ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy. Claiming that the...

Aristotle's "Politics" is the best work ever written on the concepts that help shape countries of the world and their...