This book is a commentary on the Pythagorean Golden Verses, a neglected, but once very popular poem of the Hellenistic period. The goal of the poem is to introduce its readers to the basic moral, religious and philosophical doctrines of the Pythagorean sect and to guide them to …
This book is a commentary on the Pythagorean Golden Verses, a neglected, but once very popular poem of the Hellenistic period. The goal of the poem is to introduce its readers to the basic moral, religious and philosophical doctrines of the Pythagorean sect and to guide them to …
Fragments: the collected wisdom of Heraclitus
by Heraclitus, Ephesius, Haxton, Brooks
fromPenguin classics
Beautifully intense, poetic translations of one of the world's most deeply influential thinkers The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus In the sixth century B.C.--twenty-five hundred years before Einstein--Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that ever…
For the first time in scholarship, this essay collection interprets modernity through the literary micro-genres of the aphorism, the epigram, the maxim, and the fragment. Situating Friedrich Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde as forerunners of modern aphoristic culture, the collection an…
Deipnosophistae
by Athenaios
fromBibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana
"With over 300 quotations, this book invites the reader to delve into the writings of the great contemplatives and mystics of the past two thousand years. The Little Book of Christian Mysticism provides a userfriendly, insightful, and potentially life-changing introduction to th…
Behind the superficial obscurity of what fragments we have of Heraclitus' thought, Professor Kahn claims that it is possible to detect a systematic view of human existence, a theory of language which sees ambiguity as a device for the expression of multiple meaning, and a vision…