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On Justice, Power, and Human Nature
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 1993; US$ 10.95Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language and culture, this collection of extracts from The History of the Peloponnesian War includes those passages that shed most light on Thucydides? political theory?famous as well as important but lesser-known pieces frequently overlooked by nonspecialists. Newly translated into... more...
Loyalty
NYU Press 2013; US$ 65.00Few topics are more ubiquitous in everyday life and, at the same time, more controversial in practice, than that of ones moral obligation to loyalty. Featuring essays by scholars working in a variety of subjects from law to psychology, Loyalty presents diverse perspectives on dilemmas posed by potential conflicts between loyalties to specific... more...
First Democracy
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 19.99Provides an introduction to the roots of one of our most cherished institutions: government for and by the people. more...
Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 13.99Looks at the meaning of reverence and its role in religion and society. more...
The Ajax Dilemma
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 18.99We live in a world where CEOs give themselves million dollar bonuses even as their companies go bankrupt and ordinary workers are laid off; where athletes make millions while teachers struggle to survive; a world, in short, where rewards are often unfairly meted out. In The Ajax Dilemma, Paul Woodruff examines one of today's most pressing moral... more...
Bacchae
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2010; US$ 5.95[Woodruff?s translation] is clear, fluent, and vigorous, well thought out, readable and forceful. The rhythms are right, ever-present but not too insistent or obvious. It can be spoken instead of read and so is viable as an acting version; and it keeps the lines of the plot well focused. The Introduction offers a good survey of critical approaches.... more...
Antigone
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2001; US$ 6.50"Woodruff?s work with Peter Meineck makes this text one that is accessible to today?s students and could be staged for modern audiences. Line notes printed at the bottom of the page bring a reader further quick assistance. . . . ?The choral odes as rendered here deserve special notice. After giving a succinct analysis of each in his introduction,... more...
Reason and Religion in Socratic Philosophy
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 94.99This volume brings together mostly previously unpublished studies by prominent historians, classicists, and philosophers on the roles and effects of religion in Socratic philosophy and on the trial of Socrates. Among the contributors are Thomas C. Brickhouse, Asli Gocer, and Paul B. Woodruff. more...
Four Tragedies
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2007; US$ 10.95Meineck and Woodruff's new annotated translations of Sophocles' Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes combine the same standards of accuracy, concision, clarity, and powerful speech that have so often made their Theban Plays a source of epiphany in the classroom and of understanding in the theatre. more...
Symposium
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 1989; US$ 8.50"A model of the kind of text one needs for lecture courses: the translation is extremely readable and made even more accessible by intelligent printing decisions (on dividing the text, spacing for clarification, etc.); the notes are kept to a minimum but appear when they are really needed for comprehension and are truly informative. And the introduction... more...









