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Aesop's Fablesby Aesop, Jacob LawrenceISBN 0295976411 (0-295-97641-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesop's Fables'Book summary:Aesop's Fables combines 23 timeless morality tales with striking black ink drawings by the revered artist Jacob Lawrence. Published originally in 1970, the book has been out of print for two decades. This new edition, completely redesigned and typeset, adds five illustrations Lawrence prepared for the original edition but which were not included in it.
Aesop's fables are often ungentle tales with profound and instructive morals. Lawrence's bold and expressive pen-and-ink illustrations reflect both the charm and the severity of the fables themselves. The wisdom and depth of this collection will reach all who read it, from child to adult.
Born in 1917, Jacob Lawrence is one of the most celebrated artists alive today. His awards include his 1983 election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a National Arts Award in 1992, and his confirmation as Commissioner of the National Council of the Arts in 1978 by the U.S. Senate. He is professor emeritus of art at the University of Washington, and has also taught at the Pratt Institute, Brandeis University, and Black Mountain College. His paintings have been widely exhibited since his first major solo exhibit in 1944 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and his work graces museum and private collections throughout the world. [via]
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The Alchemistby Ben JonsonISBN 0300017367 (0-300-01736-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Ancient Goddesses: The Myths and the Evidenceby Lucy Goodison, Christine MorrisISBN 0299163202 (0-299-16320-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Timesby Thomas R. MartinISBN 0300069561 (0-300-06956-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Ancient World in the Cinemaby Jon SolomonISBN 0300083378 (0-300-08337-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Aristotle's Theory of the Willby Anthony John Patrick KennyISBN 0300023952 (0-300-02395-2)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel the Novel as Historyby Norman MailerISBN 0297176277 (0-297-17627-7)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Bisexuality in the Ancient Worldby Eva CantarellaISBN 0300093020 (0-300-09302-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bisexuality in the Ancient World'Book summary:A history of bisexuality in the classical age. Eva Cantarella draws on a full range of sources - from legal texts, inscriptions and medical documents to poetry and philosophical literature - to reconstruct and compare the bisexual cultures of Athens and Rome. This second edition includes a preface which considers work published since the text first appeared. [via]
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Boswell's London Journal: 1762-1763by Frederick A. PottleISBN 0300057350 (0-300-05735-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763by James Boswell, Frederick A. Pottle, Peter AckroydISBN 0300093012 (0-300-09301-2)
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Caligula: The Corruption of Powerby Anthony A. BarrettISBN 0300074298 (0-300-07429-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Catullusby Charles MartinISBN 0300052006 (0-300-05200-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Celebrating Homer's Landscapesby J. V. LuceISBN 0300074115 (0-300-07411-5)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Classical Age of Greeceby N.G.L. HammondISBN 0297769960 (0-297-76996-0)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Classics in Translationby Herbert M. Howe, Paul L. MacKendrickISBN 0299808963 (0-299-80896-3)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Classics in Translation'Book summary:Here, translated into modern idiom, are many works of the authors whose ideas have consitituted the mainstream of classical thought. This volume of new translations was born of necessity, to answer the needs of a course in Greek and Roman culture offered by the Department of Integrated Liberal Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Since its original publication in 1952, Classics in Translation has been adopted by many different academic insititutions to fill similar needs of their undergraduate students. This new printing is further evidence of this collection's general acceptance by teachers, students, and the reviewing critics.
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Classics in Translationby Paul L. MacKendricISBN 0299808955 (0-299-80895-5)
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Cligesby Chretien De Troyes, Burton RaffelISBN 0300070217 (0-300-07021-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Climax of Rome: The Final Achievements of the Ancient World A.D. 161-337by Michael GrantISBN 0297761617 (0-297-76161-7)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Combat Sports in the Ancient World: Competition, Violence, and Cultureby Michael B. PoliakoffISBN 0300063121 (0-300-06312-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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A Companion to Greek Tragedyby John FergusonISBN 0292710003 (0-292-71000-3)
Hardcover, University of Texas Press
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Complete Poemsby Robert Fagles, Bacchylides, Adam ParryISBN 0300075529 (0-300-07552-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems'Book summary:Discovered in an Egyptian papyrus in 1896, the lyrics of Bacchylides are one of the great treasures of Greek poetry. These exquisite choral odes celebrate victories in the Pythian, Isthmian, Nemean, and Olympic games and chronicle the classical gods and heroes, eloquently revealing to us the spirit and world of Golden Age Greece. The poems are brilliantly translated by Robert Fagles, recently hailed by Garry Wills in the New Yorker as "the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English." First published in 1961, the book now includes a new translator's note by Fagles. "[Fagles] has produced a work which is at once a faithful translation of Bacchylides in the fullest sense and something which stands and lives in its own right as a work of art."-Sir Maurice Bowra, from the Foreword "Fagles has created . . . a musical and craftsmanly series of verses. As a translator, Fagles has the merits of . . . keeping the lilting rhythms of Bacchylides alive in one's ear . . . and unearthing metaphors behind faded Greek words, of splitting the strings of compound adjectives into pungent clauses which lose nothing in color but make coordinated English."-Emily Vermeule, American Journal of Philology "The beauty, richness, and classic quality of Mr. Fagles's unrhymed verse make this translation a creative work and a valuable contribution to English letters."-Rae Dalven, Poetry [via]
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The Complete Poetry of Catullusby David D. Mulroy, Gaius Valerius CatullusISBN 0299177742 (0-299-17774-2)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poetry of Catullus'Book summary:A wild young poet in Julius Caesar's Rome
Catullus life was akin to pulp fiction. In Julius Caesars Rome, he engages in a stormy affair with a consuls wife. He writes her passionate poems of love, hate, and jealousy. The consul, a vehement opponent of Caesar, dies under suspicious circumstances. The merry widow romances numerous young men. Catullus is drawn into politics and becomes a cocky critic of Caesar, writing poems that dub Julius a low-life pig and a pervert. Not surprisingly, soon after, no more is heard of Catullus.
David Mulroy brings to life the witty, poignant, and brutally direct voice of a flesh-and-blood man, a young provincial in the Eternal City, reacting to real people and events in a Rome full of violent conflict among individuals marked by genius and megalomaniacal passions. Mulroys lively, rhythmic translations of the poems are enhanced by an introduction and commentary that provide biographical and bibliographical information about Catullus, a history of his times, a discussion of the translations, and definitions and notes that ease the way for anyone who is not a Latin scholar. [via]
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Culture and Anarchyby Matthew Arnold, Samuel LipmanISBN 0300058675 (0-300-05867-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Daily Life in Ancient Rome; The People and the City at the Height of the Empire,: The People and the City at the Height of the Empireby Jerome Carcopino, Henry T. RowellISBN 0300000316 (0-300-00031-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Does the New Testament Imitate Homer: Four Cases from the Acts of the Apostlesby Dennis Ronald MacDonaldISBN 0300097700 (0-300-09770-0)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Dramatic Art in Aeschylus's Seven Against Thebesby William G. ThalmannISBN 0300022190 (0-300-02219-0)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedyby Kirk OrmandISBN 0292760523 (0-292-76052-3)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy'Book summary:Marriage is a central concern in five of the seven extant plays of the Greek tragedian Sophocles. In this pathfinding study, Kirk Ormand delves into the ways in which these plays represent and problematize marriage, thus offering insights into how Athenians thought about the institution of marriage.
Ormand takes a two-fold approach. He first explores the legal and economic underpinnings of Athenian marriage, an institution designed to guarantee the legitimate continuation of patrilineal households. He then shows how Sophocles' plays Trachiniae, Electra, Antigone, Ajax, and Oedipus Tyrannus both reinforce and critique this ideology by representing marriage as a homosocial exchange between men, in which women are objects who may attempt--but always fail--to become self-acting subjects.
These fresh readings provide the first systematic study of marriage in Sophocles. They draw important connections between drama and marriage as rituals concerned with controlling potentially disruptive female subjectivities.
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The Fables of Phaedrusby Phaedrus, P.F. WiddowsISBN 029272473X (0-292-72473-X)
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The First Poets: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poetsby Michael SchmidtISBN 0297643940 (0-297-64394-0)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The Folds of Parnassos: Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokisby Jeremy McInerneyISBN 029275230X (0-292-75230-X)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britainby Frank Miller TurnerISBN 0300032579 (0-300-03257-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Greek Poetic Syntax in the Classical Ageby Victor BersISBN 0300028121 (0-300-02812-1)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Greeksby Kenneth DoverISBN 0292727240 (0-292-72724-0)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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The Greeks: From the BBC Television Series by Christopher Burstall and Kenneth Doverby Kenneth James Dover, Christopher BurstallISBN 0292727232 (0-292-72723-2)
Hardcover, University of Texas Press
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Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norwayby Snorri SturlusonISBN 0292730616 (0-292-73061-6)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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The Hellenistic Aestheticby Barbara Hughes FowlerISBN 0299120449 (0-299-12044-9)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Herodotusby James S. RommISBN 0300072309 (0-300-07230-9)
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Hieroglyphs Without Mystery: An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Writingby Karl-Theodor ZauzichISBN 0292798040 (0-292-79804-0)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Hieroglyphs without Mystery provides the needed key. Written for ordinary people with no special language skills, the book quickly demonstrates that hieroglyphic writing can be read, once a few simple principles are understood. Zauzich explains the basic rules of the writing system and the grammar and then applies them to thirteen actual inscriptions taken from objects in European and Egyptian museums. By following his explanations and learning the most commonly used glyphs, readers can begin to decode hieroglyphs themselves and increase their enjoyment of both museum objects and ancient Egyptian sites.
Even for the armchair traveler, learning about hieroglyphs opens a sealed door into ancient Egyptian culture. In examining these inscriptions, readers will gain a better understanding of Egyptian art, politics, and religion, as well as language.
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A History of Education in Antiquityby Henri Irenee MarrouISBN 0299088146 (0-299-08814-6)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Images of the Greek Theatreby Richard Green, Eric Handley, J. R. Green, British MuseumISBN 0292727828 (0-292-72782-8)
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In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empireby Adrian GoldsworthyISBN 0297846663 (0-297-84666-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire'Book summary:Adrian Goldsworthy has received wide acclaim for his exceptional writing on the Roman Empireincluding high praise from the acclaimed military historian and author John Keeganand here he offers a new perspective on the Empire by focusing on its greatest generals, including Scipio Africanus, Caius Marius, Pompey, Julius Caesar, and Titus Flavius. Each chapter portrays a single general, offering insight into his leadership skills and victories. This accessible, reader-friendly history tells the story of Roman warfare, from the bitter struggle with Carthage in the third century BC to the last desperate attempt to win back the Western Empire in the sixth century AD.[via]More editions of In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire:
Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduannaby Betty De Shong Meador, EnheduannaISBN 0292752423 (0-292-75242-3)
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Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches Protogorasby Plato Plato, R.E. AllenISBN 0300074387 (0-300-07438-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, Protagoras: The Dialogues of Platoby Plato, R.E. AllenISBN 0300063431 (0-300-06343-1)
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Isocrates Iby Isocrates, David C. Mirhady, Yun Lee TooISBN 0292752385 (0-292-75238-5)
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The Journals of James Boswell: 1762-1795by John WainISBN 0300060742 (0-300-06074-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Kallocainby Karin Boye, Gustaf Lannestock, Richard B. VowlesISBN 0299038947 (0-299-03894-7)
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King, Queen, Knaveby Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0297761773 (0-297-76177-3)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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LA Vida De Lazarillo De Tormes Y De Sus Fortunas Y Adversidadesby Everett W. Hesse, Harry F. WilliamsISBN 0299005453 (0-299-00545-3)
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Libraries in the Ancient Worldby Lionel CassonISBN 0300097212 (0-300-09721-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Libraries in the Ancient World'Book summary:The Dewey decimal system of cataloguing and its modern successors are relatively new, and they sometimes seem inadequate as ways of organizing knowledge in ever-changing fields of study. But the idea of bringing order to collections of written material is an ancient one, as Lionel Casson writes in this lucid survey of bibliophilia in the ancient Mediterranean. Among the earliest examples of written material that we have are lists of library holdings, clay tablets from Mesopotamia that archive commercial inventories, scholarly texts, and a surprising number of works on witchcraft and remedies against it.
Ancient libraries grew, Casson writes, by many means: by peaceful trade, as when book-hungry Romans spent extravagant sums on Greek texts made in southern Italy; by conquest, as when the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal looted the libraries of his ancient rival Babylon, carting the contents to his capital of Nineveh; and by fiat, as when the Egyptian pharaohs appropriated private collections to round out their own. Those libraries nourished the great philosophers and writers of old, shaping world culture into our own time. But, as Casson ably shows, the enemies of books are many, among them floods, fires, insects, and intolerance. As it is today, so it was in the past, and contending empires and ideologies too often expressed themselves by sacking and burning the collections of their enemies--by reason of which we have only a few of the works that engaged readers in the distant past.
Casson's slender book enhances our understanding of the role of books and their collectors in the ancient world, and bibliophiles and historians alike will find much of value in its pages. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Look at the Harlequins!by Vladimir NabokovISBN 0297768891 (0-297-76889-1)
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Lysiasby Lysias, S. C. ToddISBN 0292781660 (0-292-78166-0)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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The Manorby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0299205444 (0-299-20544-4)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Mildred Pierceby Albert J. Lavalley, Ranald MacDougall, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater ResearchISBN 0299083705 (0-299-08370-5)
Hardcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Albert J. LaValley's through and insightful guide to Mildred Pierce at once tells us much about the making of this complex film, the problems and process of transferring the story to the screen, the specific and important roles of the producer, director, and set designer, and how the film relates to broad trends within the industry. It is without a doubt the most thorough treatment of this important American motion picture.More editions of Mildred Pierce:
Mr. Sammler's Planetby Saul BellowISBN 0297000403 (0-297-00040-3)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Presentby Eric A. HavelockISBN 0300043821 (0-300-04382-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Mysteriesby Knut HamsunISBN 0285647296 (0-285-64729-6)
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Nero: The End of a Dynastyby Miriam GriffinISBN 0300032854 (0-300-03285-4)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Other Inquisitions 1937-1952by Jorge Luis Borges, Ruth L. C.L SimmsISBN 0292760027 (0-292-76002-7)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Percevalby Chretien De Troyes, Burton RaffelISBN 0300075863 (0-300-07586-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perceval'Book summary:One of the most influential storytellers in Western literature, French poet Chretien de Troyes helped to shape the ever-fascinating legend of King Arthur and the Round Table. Of Chretien's five surviving romantic Arthurian poems, the last and longest is Perceval, an unfinished work that introduces the story of the Grail -- a legend quickly adopted by other medieval writers and taken up by a continuing succession of authors. In Chretien's romance, Perceval progresses from a naive boyhood in rural seclusion to a position of high respect as a knight at Arthur's court. Acclaimed for sensitive and faithful translations of the poems of Chretien, Burton Raffel completes the Arthurian series with this rendition of Perceval. [via]
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Plato's Parmenidesby Plato, R.E. AllenISBN 0300066163 (0-300-06616-3)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plato's Parmenides'Book summary:Among Plato's later dialogues, the Parmenides is one of the most significant. Not only a document of profound philosophical importance in its own right, it also contributes to the understanding of Platonic dialogues that followed it, and it exhibits the foundations of the physics and ontology that Aristotle offered in his Physics and Metaphysics VII.
In this book, R. E. Allen provides a superb translation of the Parmenides along with a structural analysis that procedes on the assumption that formal elements, logical and dramatic, are important to its interpretation and that the argument of the Parmenides is aporetic, a statement of metaphysical perplexities. Allen has revised his original translation of and commentary on the Parmenides, which were published in 1983 to great acclaim. [via]
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Plato's Parmenidesby R.E. AllenISBN 0300077297 (0-300-07729-7)
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Plato's Sophist: The Drama of Original and Imageby Stanley RosenISBN 0300037619 (0-300-03761-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Plato's Statesman: The Web of Politicsby Stanley RosenISBN 0300072813 (0-300-07281-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plato's Statesman: The Web of Politics'Book summary:In this book an eminent philosopher presents a rich and provocative analysis of the Statesman, one of Plato's most challenging works. Stanley Rosen contends that the main theme of this dialogue is defining the art of politics and the degree to which political experience is subject to the rule of sound judgment (phronesis) and to technical construction (techne).
"Rosen tries by explaining the dialogue's philosophical methodology to appeal to readers other than those who specialize in Plato. He succeeds by means of his lucid prose and ordered presentation of the dialogue's twists and turns. A necessary book for all levels of thoughtful readers". -- Choice
"The Statesman may well be Plato's most difficult work. Rosen's interpretation is penetrating and original, with a rich and humorous description of the recalcitrant details of the dialogue". -- Davis K. O'Connor, University of Notre Dame [via]
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Plutarchby Robert Lamberton, John HeringtonISBN 0300088108 (0-300-08810-8)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plutarch'Book summary:An introduction to Plutarch's life and work for both general readers and students. Robert Lamberton sketches the cultural context in which Plutarch worked and discusses his family relationships, background, education and political career, then analyzes his writings. [via]
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The Prelude: A Parallel Textby William Wordsworth, J.C. MaxwellISBN 0300027567 (0-300-02756-7)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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The Psychoanalytic Theory Of Greek Tragedyby C. Fred AlfordISBN 0300057083 (0-300-05708-3)
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Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund Burke, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Alan Wolfe, Frank M. Turner, Jack N. Rakove, Darrin M. McMahonISBN 0300099789 (0-300-09978-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reflections on the Revolution in France'Book summary:"Reflections on the Revolution in France" was written in 1790 and has remained in print ever since. Edmund Burke's analysis of revolutionary change established him as the chief framer of modern European conservative political thought. This new edition of the "Reflections" presents Burke's famous text along with a historical introduction by Frank Turner and four critical essays by leading scholars. The volume sets the "Reflections" in the context of Western political thought, highlights its ongoing relevance to contemporary debates, and provides abundant critical notes, a glossary and a glossary-index to ensure its accessibility. Contributors to the book examine various provocative aspects of Burke's thought. Conor Cruise O'Brien explores Burke's hostility to "theory", Darrin McMahon considers Burke's characterization of the French Enlightenment, Jack Rakove contrasts the views of Burke and American constitutional framers on the process of drawing up constitutions, and Alan Wolfe investigates Burke, the social sciences, and liberal democracy. [via]
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Roman Imperial Architectureby John Bryan Ward-PerkinsISBN 0300052928 (0-300-05292-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Roman Social Relations 50 B.C. to A.D. 284by Ramsay MacMullenISBN 0300027028 (0-300-02702-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Saints & Sinners: A History of the Popesby Eamon DuffyISBN 0300073321 (0-300-07332-1)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literatureby Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0297768573 (0-297-76857-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature'Book summary:The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America's most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literature, is her most passionate and concentrated work of criticism. A gallery of unforgettable portraits--of Virginia Woolf and Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Wordsworth and Jane Carlyle--as well as a provocative reading of such works as Wuthering Heights, Hedda Gabler, and the poems of Sylvia Plath, Seduction and Betrayal is a virtuoso performance, a major writer's reckoning with the relations between men and women, women and writing, writing and life. [via]
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Self-Knowledge in Plato's Phaedrusby Charles L. GriswoldISBN 0300043678 (0-300-04367-8)
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The Square Eggby Ronald SearleISBN 0297764918 (0-297-76491-8)
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Transparent Thingsby Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0297765140 (0-297-76514-0)
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The Twelve Caesarsby Michael GrantISBN 0297769227 (0-297-76922-7)
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Two New Sciences, Including Centers of Gravity & Force of Percussionby Galileo Galilei, Stillman DrakeISBN 0299064042 (0-299-06404-2)
Softcover, University of Wisconsin Press
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Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Cultureby Leonard BarkanISBN 0300089112 (0-300-08911-2)
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War, Women, and Druids: Eyewitness Reports and Early Accounts of the Ancient Celtsby Philip FreemanISBN 0292725450 (0-292-72545-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Writings on Economicsby David Hume, Eugene RotweinISBN 0299013243 (0-299-01324-3)
Hardcover, University of Wisconsin Press
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