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"A work of intellectual history, the book traces the notion of human rights as articulated in the Enlightenment to the evolution of humane discourse and empathetic thought in Ancient Greece"--
Introduction -- Exploration A. Barthélemy's Travels of Anacharsis the Younger -- Part I. Two enlightenments -- Reason -- Warfare -- Empathy and tears -- Humane discourse -- Exploration B. Cyrus the Great -- Part II. Ancient Greek roots -- Elements -- Paths -- Exploration C. Tens…
"A work of intellectual history, the book traces the notion of human rights as articulated in the Enlightenment to the evolution of humane discourse and empathetic thought in Ancient Greece"--
Reveals the manner in which Newton strove for nearly half a century to rectify universal history by reading ancient texts through the lens of astronomy, and to create a tight theoretical system for interpreting the evolution of civilization on the basis of population dynamics
Isaac Newton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man's death, unleashed a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book presents a drastically revised timeline for ancient civilizations, contracting Greek history by five hu…
This volume tells the story of how one of the most celebrated figures in the history of mathematics, optics, and mechanics came to apply his unique ways of thinking to problems of history, theology, and mythology, and of how his radical ideas produced an uproar that reverberated…
Isaac Newton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man's death, unleashed a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book presents a drastically revised timeline for ancient civilizations, contracting Greek history by five hu…
Isaac Newton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man's death, unleashed a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book presents a drastically revised timeline for ancient civilizations, contracting Greek history by five hu…
Deep classics: rethinking classical reception
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Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical past presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it. 'Deep Classics' is the study of these obstacles and, in particular, of the way in which the contemplation of the classical past resembles - and has even pr…
