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Plato, in the Protagoras, suggests that the virtues are profoundly unified yet also distinct. In Plato on the Unity of the Virtues: A Dialectic Reading, Rod Jenks argues that the way in which virtue……続きを見る

“Ἡ συμπλήρωση διακοσίων πενήντα ἐτῶν ἀπὸ τὴν ἵδρυση τῆς Ἀθωνιάδος μέχρι καὶ σήμερα –καὶ μάλιστα ἡ λειτουργία της πάντοτε ὑπὸ τὴν αἰγίδα της– ἦταν ἡ αἰτία ποὺ ἡ Μονή μας διοργάνωσε τὴν ἡμερίδα αὐτήν,……続きを見る

“Τὸ βιβλίον τοῦτο δὲν πραγματεύεται οὔτε τὴν Ἱστορίαν τὴν μακρὰν καὶ ἔνδοξον τοῦ Ὄρους, τὸ ὁποῖον οἱ Αὐτοκράτορες τοῦ Βυζαντίου ἔστησαν μνημεῖον αἰώνιον τῆς εὐσεβείας αὑτῶν, καὶ εἰς τὸ ὁποῖον ὁ ἐν ἀ……続きを見る

The Complete Works of Thucydides Thucydides was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411……続きを見る

The Complete Works of Gaston Maspero Sir Gaston Camille Charles Maspero KCMG was a French Egyptologist known for popularizing the term "Sea Peoples" in an 1881 paper. Maspero's son, Henri Maspero, b……続きを見る

The Complete Works of Edward Gibbon Edward Gibbon FRS was an English historian, writer and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was……続きを見る

The Complete Works of John Clarke Stobart John Clarke Stobart, commonly known as J. C. Stobart, wrote two famous and influential books, The Glory that was Greece and The Grandeur that was Rome. He w……続きを見る

The Complete Works of Henry Osborn Taylor Henry Osborn Taylor was an American historian and legal scholar. This collection includes the following: The Mediaeval Mind (Volume I of II) : A History of ……続きを見る

Vorlesungen über historische Encyclopädie und Methodologie, die ich seit 1857 wiederholentlich gehalten habe, veranlassten mich das Schema derselben niederzuschreiben, um den Zuhörern einen Anhalt f……続きを見る

GREEK MYTHOLOGY For centuries, humankind has looked to legends and myths to make sense of the world. While some turned inward, focusing on the interior workings of the psyche, others were more conte……続きを見る

The Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. Along with prestigious athletic contests in honor of Zeus at Olympia, they comprised the Pythian Games for Apollo at Delphi, the Isthm……続きを見る

An inspiring portrait of an overlooked pioneer in Black history and American archaeology The First Black Archaeologist reveals the untold story of a pioneering African American classical scholar, te……続きを見る

Magic was a fundamental part of the Greco-Roman world. Curses, erotic spells, healing charms, divination, and other supernatural methods of trying to change the universe were everyday methods of cop……続きを見る

‘Haynes neemt met humor en feministische zelfspot een hele reeks klassieke werken door op wat er over vrouwen staat. [...] Aanstekelijke en nog altijd noodzakelijke blikverruiming.’- Trouw ‘Haynes l……続きを見る

Taking as a key turning point the self-fashioning of the first Roman emperor Augustus, author Jennifer Finn revisits the idea of “universal history” in Polybius, Justin, and Diodorus, combined with ……続きを見る

Alexander the Great died when he was quite young. He was but thirty-two years of age when he ended his career, and as he was about twenty when he commenced it, it was only for a period of twelve yea……続きを見る

A treasury of astonishing mythic marvelsーand the surprising truths behind them Adrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular knowl……続きを見る

A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of war Flamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the larg……続きを見る

Winner of CAMWS' 2023 Bolchazy Pedagogy Award. Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome features the extant writings of major female authors from the Greco-Roman world, brought together for the firs……続きを見る

Cephalos was a very late patriarch within a well-arrived age of illustrious mythic personages. They had real biographies, although Cephalos' has suffered mostly expunction by Classical Greek Mytholo……続きを見る

Heliodorus' Aethiopica (Ethiopian Story) is the latest, longest, and greatest of the ancient Greek romances. It was hugely admired in Byzantium, and caused a sensation when it was rediscovered and t……続きを見る

One of the ten Attic orators included in the Alexandrian Canon, Lysias was a prominent figure of Athens in the fifth century BC. A loyal supporter of democracy, he took the side of the democrats at ……続きを見る

No writings of Epictetus himself are really known. His discourses were transcribed and compiled by his pupil Arrian (author of the Anabasis Alexandri). The main work is The Discourses, four books of……続きを見る

La democracia ateniense de los siglos V y IV a. C. es el ejemplo más famoso y quizás el más perfecto de democracia directa. Cubriendo el período 403-322 a. C., Mogens Herman Hansen se centra en los ……続きを見る

Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES 'Brought evocatively to life' HISTORY REVEALED - Was there really a Trojan War? - What makes a Homeric hero? - How did Odysseus defeat the Cyclops? IMMERSE……続きを見る

'Do you see your son, standing over there, in the antechamber? Well, I am going to shoot him.' The story of the great and mad Cambyses, King of Persia, told by part-historian, part-mythmaker Herodot……続きを見る

Tom Holland's 'stirring new translation' (Telegraph) of Herodotus' Histories, one of the great books in Western history - now in paperback The Histories of Herodotus, completed in the second half of……続きを見る

This remarkable and daringly original book proposes a new way of thinking about the Greeks and their myths in the age of the great Homeric hymns. It combines a lifetime's familiarity with Greek lite……続きを見る

'I'll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I'm doing.' Somewhere between a historical account and work of philosophy, Socrates' Defence details the final plea of Plato's beloved mentor. Introd……続きを見る

The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved "a totally new conception of what human life was for". Elaborating on that claim, the author explores the life, culture and history of cl……続きを見る