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"Vittorio Cotesta's Eurasian Visions of the World traces the origin of the images of the world typical of the Graeco-Roman, Ancient Chinese and Medieval Islamic civilisations. Each of them had its own peculiar way of understanding the universe, life, death, society, power, human…
Like the ancient inquiries into the nature of things, contemporary continental realism and materialism, from Deleuze to the Speculative Realists, embraces a commitment to investigate beings, without subordinating it to analyses of language, consciousness, texts or the social. Th…
18 essays breathe new life into the classic problems of ancient metaphysics using contemporary continental materialisms and realisms. In this volume, leading philosophers address the varied, volatile and novel encounters between contemporary and antique thought. They reconceive …
The first five books of Cyril of Alexandria's (c. 378-444 CE) monumental work of refutation "Against Julian" are being published here for the first time in a modern critical edition with an extensive apparatus of sources and parallel texts. The general introduction outlines the …
Protagoras beansprucht, die Jugend erziehen zu können. Warum nicht? Wenn «Mensch Maß aller Dinge» ist, kann jeder jeden 'besser' machen... Für Plato geht das nicht auf. Insofern Pädagogik Menschen dazu bringen will, 'bessere' Wesen zu werden, verlangt sie nach Plato ein gesundes…
Traces the religious life of the Greeks from the eighth century B.C. to the fifth century A.D., examining local practices and ideas in the context of general Greek ideas.
The Handy Western Philosophy Answer Book: The Ancient Greek Influence on Modern Understanding makes esoteric ideas and the jumble of names easy tounderstand, enriching readers' lives.
Diese neue Reihe wurde gegründet als Fortsetzung und Erweiterung der 1882-1907 an der Königlich- Preußischen Akademie zu Berlin erstellten Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca, der Edition der spätantiken Kommentare zu Aristoteles. Die Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina…
"It is the best of Xenophon, it is the worst of Xenophon. Readers looking for a carefully researched, well balanced, and reliable narrative of Greek affairs from 404 to 395 (BC) will be disappointed"- the author. The second part of the Hellenika, covering the decade after the en…