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Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204-70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing 0works that proved in many ways a precursor ...
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The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world ...
Alan Ryan's anthology provides the perfect introduction to an enormously significant philosophical movement, aiming for "the greatest happiness for the greatest number"
One of ...
A collection of Bacon's vibrant, intelligent essays covering subjects ranging from ambition to the vicissitude of things
One of the major political figures of ...
Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, 'The Politics' still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued ...
Josephus' account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against ...
Only widely-available edition of Khayyam's lyrical poetry
Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and ...
Cicero's reflections upon the way to a live a good life
For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at ...
A fascinating historical account of Greece at a point of crisis
Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 ...
Caesar's own account of his struggle with Pompey over leadership of Republican Rome
A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great ...
Xenophon's account of the Greek war with Persia through the eyes of a young Athenian searching for his destiny abroad
In The Persian Expedition ...
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent ...
Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon ...
A collection of four of the finest Greek plays
The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought ...
