- Ancilla to Pre-Socratic Philosophers
- Kathleen Freeman
- This book is a complete translation of the fragments of the pre-Socratic philosophers given in the fifth edition of Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker.
- Paperback
- Aristotle and the Renaissance
- Charles B. Schmitt
- Hardcover 1983
- The Art of Plato
- R. B. Rutherford
- This book is not a study of Plato's philosophy, but a contribution to the literary interpretation of the dialogues, through analysis of their formal structure, characterization, language, and imagery. Among the dialogues considered in these interrelated essays are some of Plato's most admired and influential works, including Gorgias, the Symposium, the Republic and Phaedrus.
- Hardcover 1998
- Commentaries on Plato, Volume 1, Phaedrus and Ion
- Marsilio Ficino
- Edited and translated by Michael J. B. Allen
- Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This volume contains Ficino’s extended analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Consolation of Philosophy
- Boethius
- Translated by David R. Slavitt
- Introduction by Seth Lerer
- Composed while its author was imprisoned, this book remains one of Western literature’s most eloquent meditations on the transitory nature of earthly belongings, and the superiority of things of the mind. Slavitt’s translation captures the energy and passion of the original. And in an introduction intended for the general reader, Seth Lerer places Boethius’s life and achievement in context.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Death of Socrates
- Emily Wilson
- Socrates's death in 399 BCE has figured largely in our world ever since, shaping how we think about heroism and celebrity, religion and family life, state control and individual freedom, the distance of intellectual life from daily activity--many of the key coordinates of Western culture. In this book, Wilson analyzes the enormous and enduring power the trial and death of Socrates has exerted over the Western imagination.
- Hardcover 2007
- The Greek Concept of Justice
- Eric Havelock
- Eric Havelock presents a challenging account of the development of the idea of justice in early Greece, and particularly of the way justice changed as Greek oral tradition gradually gave way to the written word in a literate society.
- Hardcover 1978
- The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge
- Edited by Jacques Brunschwig
- Edited by Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd
- Translated by Catherine Porter
- Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In this volume drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, major scholars take up basic topics in philosophy and science, offering an account of the extraordinary explosion of desire for knowledge in the classical Greek world.
- Paperback 2003
- A Guide to Greek Thought
- Edited by Jacques Brunschwig
- Edited by Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd
- Catherine Porter, Translated under the direction of
- The philosophers, historians, and scientists of ancient Greece inaugurated and nourished the tradition of Western thought. This volume, drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, gives fresh insight into the originality of major figures and the legacy of important currents of thought.
- Paperback 2003
- The Meaning of Stoicism
- Ludwig Edelstein
- "Despite their individual differences, the Stoic dissenters remained Stoics. That which they had in common, that which made them Stoics, is what I understand as the meaning of Stoicism." Thus delimiting his framework, Ludwig Edelstein attempts to define Stoicism by grasping the elusive common element that bound together the various factions within the ethical system.
- Hardcover 1966
- New Perspectives on Plato, Modern and Ancient
- Edited by Julia Annas
- Edited by Christopher J. Rowe
- Contributions by David Blank
- Contributions by Dorothea Frede
- Contributions by Christopher Gill
- Contributions by Charles L. Griswold
- Contributions by Brad Inwood
- Contributions by Charles Kahn
- Contributions by Kathryn Morgan
- Contributions by Andrea Nightingale
- Contributions by Terry Penner
- Contributions by R. B. Rutherford
- Contributions by David Sedley
- In recent years, scholars have looked more closely at the philosophical importance of the imaginative and literary aspects of Plato's writing, and have begun to appreciate the methods of the ancient philosophers and commentators who studied Plato and their attitudes to Plato's appropriation of Socrates. This study brings together leading philosophical and literary scholars who investigate these new-old approaches and their significance in distancing us from the standard ways of reading Plato.
- Hardcover 2003
- Platonic Theology, Volume 4, Books XII-XIV
- Marsilio Ficino
- Translated by Michael J. B. Allen
- Edited by James Hankins
- Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. His Platonic evangelizing was eminently successful and widely influential, and his Platonic Theology, translated into English for the first time in this edition, is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.
- Hardcover 2004
- Platonic Theology, Volume 5, Books XV-XVI
- Marsilio Ficino
- Translated by Michael J. B. Allen
- Edited by James Hankins
- The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. His Platonic evangelizing was eminently successful and widely influential, and his Platonic Theology, translated into English for the first time in this edition, is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance. This is the fifth of a projected six volumes.
- Hardcover 2005
- Platonic Theology, Volume 6, Books XVII-XVIII
- Marsilio Ficino
- Translated by Michael J. B. Allen
- Edited by James Hankins
- The Platonic Theology is the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. He was committed to reconciling Platonism with Christianity, in the hope that such a reconciliation would initiate a spiritual revival and return of the golden age. This book is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.
- Hardcover 2006
- Seven Wise Men of Colonial America
- Richard M. Gummere
- Gummere explores the attitudes toward the classics of seven prominent colonial Americans--Hugh Jones, Robert Calef, Michael Wigglesworth, Samuel Davies, Henry Melhior Muhlenberg, Benjamin Rush, and Thomas Paine. Each of them was essentially pragmatic and judged the value of the classics not only on the basis of their intrinsic worth but also for their relevance to contemporary problems.
- Hardcover 1967
- The Veil of Isis
- Pierre Hadot
- Translated by Michael Chase
- Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "Phusis kruptesthai philei." How the aphorism, usually translated as "Nature loves to hide," has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot. Taking the allegorical figure of the veiled goddess Isis as a guide, and drawing on the work of both the ancients and later thinkers such as Goethe, Rilke, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger Hadot traces successive interpretations of Heraclitus' words.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- Weaving Truth
- Ann Bergren
- "What if truth were a woman?" asked Nietzsche. In ancient Greek thought, truth in language has a special relation to the female by virtue of her pre-eminent art-form--the one Freud believed was even invented by women--weaving. The essays in this book explore the implications of this nexus: language, the female, weaving, and the construction of truth.
- Paperback 2008
- Yearning for the Infinite
- Steven Lowenstam
- This work about Plato investigates the aims and objects of human desire, the ways in which humans can identify what they most need, the likelihood of realizing their goals, and the prospect of whether they ever cease to desire. The book focuses on three Platonic dialogues: the Symposium, Lysis, and Phaedrus.
- Paperback