2,334円 A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world’s most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, Electra, Medea, Antigone, and Oedipus the King Featuring translations by Emily Wilson, Frank Niseti...

6,076円 This book presents a solution to the problem known in philosophical aesthetics as the paradox of ugliness, namely, how an object that is displeasing can retain our attention and be greatly appreciated. It does this by exploring and refining the most sophisticated and thoroughly worked out theoret...

13,430円 The Romance of Arthur, James J. Wilhelm’s classic anthology of Arthurian literature, is an essential text for students of the medieval Romance tradition. This fully updated third edition presents a comprehensive reader, mapping the course of Arthurian literature, and is expanded to cover: key au...

6,368円 The poems of the Epic Cycle are assumed to be the reworking of myths and narratives which had their roots in an oral tradition predating that of many of the myths and narratives which took their present form in the Iliad and the Odyssey. The remains of these texts allow us to investigate diachron...

526円 Le Banquet est un texte du philosophe antique Platon, écrit aux environs de 380 av. J.-C. Il est constitué principalement d’une longue série de discours portant sur la nature et les qualités de l’amour. Le Banquet est avec le Phèdre l'un des deux dialogues de Platon dont le thème majeur est l’amo...

334円 Le Sophiste est un dialogue platonicien de métaphysique de Platon traitant des genres de l’être, de la nature de l’être et de la nature du sophiste. Extrait : THÉODORE. Ainsi que nous en sommes convenus hier, Socrate, nous arrivons ponctuellement, Théétète et moi ; et voici un étranger que nous a...

334円 Phédon est un dialogue du philosophe antique Platon qui raconte la mort de Socrate et ses dernières paroles. On y apprend que Socrate a été condamné à boire son poison létal dès le retour du navire transportant le « Deux fois sept ». Quelques amis ont été autorisés à lui rendre visite dans sa cel...

19,169円 Stephen Scully both offers a reading of Hesiod's Theogony and traces the reception and shadows of this authoritative Greek creation story in Greek and Roman texts up to Milton's own creation myth, which sought to "soar above th' Aonian Mount [i.e., the Theogony]...and justify the ways of God to m...

6,633円 The two books of Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists have not received much attention in their own right, as sustained and methodical specimens of sceptical philosophy. This volume redresses the balance by offering a series of in-depth studies on them, focusing in particular on their overall...

5,970円 Themistius' close relationship with Christian emperors from Constantius to Theodosius makes him one of the most important political thinkers and politicians of the later fourth century, and his dealings with Julian the Apostate have recently attracted much speculation. This volume presents a new ...

526円 De la brièveté de la vie est un dialogue du philosophe romain Sénèque, écrit en 49 ap. J.-C.. Dans cette œuvre, adressée à Paulinus, beau-père de Sénèque, ce dernier expose que pour atteindre le bonheur, il faut consacrer son temps à la sagesse et non le perdre en activités stériles et inutiles. ...

4,172円 Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising examines the transmission of Greco-Roman and European literature into English during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, while literacy was burgeoning among men and women from the nonruling classes. This dissemination offered a radically de...