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In Consolation to his Wife
Penguin Books Ltd 2008; Not AvailableFrom an intimate and moving letter to his grieving wife on the death of their daughter, to elegant writings on morality, happiness and the avoidance of anger, Plutarch's powerful words of consolation and inspiration still offer timeless wisdom and guidance today. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the... more...
Discourses on Livy
Oxford University Press, UK 1997; US$ 8.99Machiavelli's commentary on Livy's history of Rome sets out his fundamental preference for a republican state. This translation is richly annotated, providing the contemporary reader with sufficient historical, linguistic, and political information to understand and interpret the revolutionary affirmations Machiavelli made, based on the historical... more...
Narrating Desire
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 154.00Despite the recent explosion of scholarly interest in the field of ancient sexuality, inquiry into major shifts in erotic consciousness is still in a preliminary stage. The essays in this collection, which focus upon the representation of the desiring subject in prose fiction, advance our understanding considerably as they probe the ambiguities surrounding... more...
Proklos, Tria Opuscula
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 210.00The Tria Opuscula by the Late Antique Neoplatonist Proklos are accessible in full in the translation into medieval Latin by Wilhelm von Moerbeke, as well as in fragments in the Greek texts of Late Antique and Byzantine authors. Using the form of a commentary on passages, this work assesses what we can learn from these sources about the original Greek... more...
Aristophanes
Cambridge University Press 1981; US$ 32.00A collection of interpretative essays on Aristophanes, one of the greatest and most important poets of the golden age of classical Greek literature. more...
Antikes erzählen
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 112.00How is the history of antiquity told, and what is the role of narrativity in transforming the image of antiquity? This volume addresses the highly charged intersection between experience, narrative, and history that may be apprehended when we consider the great diversity of narrative practices in literature, the visual arts, and historiography. Individual... more...
Writing Science
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 168.00Scientific and technological texts have not played a significant role in modern literary criticism. This collection, focusing mostly on medical and mathematical texts from ancient Greece, aims at approaching ancient Greek science from the cross-disciplinary perspective of authorship. Among the questions addressed are: How does scientific writing differ... more...
Wort und Gedanke
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 112.00Plato?s criticism of writing has engendered much controversy ? and it is where interpretations of Platonic philosophy often part ways. This study uses textual and philosophical analysis to shed light on the debate. By comparing Plato?s views to Plotinus?s thoughts about the conditions and forms of philosophical discussion, the author gives the debate... more...
The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 30.00Nineteen new essays by internationally renowned experts on interpretations of the Greek and Roman novel. more...
Apologizing for Socrates
Lexington Books 2012; US$ 74.99Apologizing for Socrates places some of the Platonic and Xenophontic writings in the context of contemporary controversies over Socrates, providing a perspective in which many of the philosophic and literary features of the text can be explained. In addition, it sheds light on the apologetic techniques used by Plato and Xenophon. more...









