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Michael Pope
Lucretius and the End of Masculinity

From beginning to end, the De rerum natura upsets expectations. This book's premise is that Lucretius intentionally provokes his imagined male audience, playfully and forcefully proving to them that they …

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Thomas J Nelson, Giuseppe Pezzini, Stefano Rebeggiani
Pergamon and Rome: Culture, Identity, and Influence

This interdisciplinary volume provides the first comprehensive study of Rome's relationship with the kingdom and city of Pergamon. It surveys the rich and diverse interactions between these two cities fro…

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Melissa Lane
Of Rule and Office

A constitutionalist reading of Plato's political thoughtPlato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule? In this study, Melissa Lane reveals how politica…

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James Franklin
The Necessities Underlying Reality

Introduces Aristotelian realist philosophy of mathematics through the work of leading Australian mathematician and historian of ideas, James Franklin.

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James O Young, Michel-Antoine Xhignesse
Anne Le Févre Dacier: Of the Causes of the Corruption of Taste

Anne Le Fèvre Dacier (1645-1720) was the most important woman of letters of her time and Of the Causes of the Corruption of Taste is her most influential work. Dacier in several ways she anticipated and l…

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Ioannis Trisokkas
Hegel and Heidegger on Time

This Element discusses Heidegger's early (1924-1931) reading and critique of Hegel, revolving around the topic of time. The standard view is Heidegger distances himself from Hegel by arguing that whereas …

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Brian Kogelmann
Political Meritocracy in the 21st Century

Political meritocrats believe political power should be allocated according to virtue and competence. It is an old idea, going back at least to Plato. But what is old is new again, as several political ph…

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Ward Farnsworth
Estoico Practicante, El

See more clearly, live more wisely, and bear the burdens of this life with greater ease―here are the greatest insights of the Stoics, in their own words. Presented in twelve lessons, Ward Farnsworth syste…

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Platonic Autonomy

Analyses Plato's notion of personal autonomy in its philosophical and historical context. Questions an exclusively individualistic account and argues that the autonomous subject is a unified agent who in …

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Brian Kogelmann
Political Meritocracy in the 21st Century

Political meritocrats believe political power should be allocated according to virtue and competence. It is an old idea, going back at least to Plato. But what is old is new again, as several political ph…

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Cicero's Tusculan Disputations

Cicero composed the Tusculan Disputations in the summer of 45 BC at a time of great personal and political turmoil. He was grieving for the death of his daughter Tullia earlier that year, while Caesar's d…

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Paul Allen Miller
Truth and Enjoyment in Cicero

Truth and Enjoyment in Cicero offers a fundamental re-examination of the relation between truth and enjoyment as understood in the traditional confrontation between rhetoric and philosophy in Cicero. His …

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Silvia Montiglio
Schadenfreude and Its Wicked Delights in Ancient Greece

This volume explores the significance of schadenfreude in Greek literature and culture from the archaic period to the second century CE. It examines how schadenfreude works, what purposes it serves within…

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Daniel James, Franz Knappik
Hegel and Colonialism

This Element offers the first comprehensive study of Hegel's views on European colonialism. In surprisingly detailed discussions scattered throughout much of his mature oeuvre, Hegel offers assessments th…

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Lee C. Barrett
Kierkegaard's Two Ages

This Element explores Kierkegaard's Two Ages, his literary review of a contemporary novella, situating it in the context of his other writings from the same period of his life and his cultural/political c…

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Herodotus,
How to Travel

A transporting anthology of ancient Greek and Roman travel writings that capture the thrill of exploration and discovery---from Europe to the Holy Land and Egypt to IndiaAt long last, a travel guide to th…

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Pablo Of Texcoco,
How to Be Grateful

A delightful Aztec work that has much to teach us about the value of giving thanks---to our contemporaries, our elders, and our ancestorsCenturies before anyone ever thought of keeping a gratitude journal…

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Robin Waterfield
Plato of Athens

This book, the first ever biography of the father of philosophy, tracks Plato's life from his childhood in war-torn Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE to his founding of the Academy, adventures in…

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Iakovos Vasiliou
Varieties of Happiness

Almost all ancient Greek ethical theories are taken to be eudaimonist because of the central role of eudaimonia (happiness) within them. Varieties of Happiness critically examines eudaimonism and challeng…

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Duncan F Kennedy
The Emergence of Ontological Styles of Thinking in Ancient Greece

This book presents an innovative theoretical framework for exploring the intellectual culture of ancient Greece in the period 450-350 BC. The bewildering questions and surprising opportunities posed by em…

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