Classical literature is full of humans, gods, and animals in impressive motion. The specific features of this motion are expressive ; it is closely intertwined with decisions, emotions, and character. However, although the importance of space has recently been realized with the …
"This volume begins with an exploration of motion in particular works of visual art, and continues by examining the characteristics of literary depiction. Seven works are then used as examples: Homer's Iliad, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Tacitus' Annals, Sophocles' Philoctetes and Oedi…
Thanassas (Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki) grapples to make sense of the poem fragment Peri Physeôs (On Nature) by pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and poet Parmenides. His perspectives include the poem and its legacy, the signs of being, and the human and the divine. He appends a t…
Michael V. Wedin presents a new interpretation of Parmenides' 'Way of truth': the most important philosophical treatise before the work of Plato and Aristotle. The 'Way of truth' contains the first extended philosophical argument in the western tradition-an argument which decree…
Michael V. Wedin presents a rigorous reconstruction of the deductions in Parmenides' 'Way of Truth': the most important philosophical treatise before Plato and Aristotle. He answers criticisms which claim that Parmenides' arguments are shot through with logical fallacies, and ar…
Michael V. Wedin presents a new interpretation of Parmenides' 'Way of truth': the most important philosophical treatise before the work of Plato and Aristotle. The 'Way of truth' contains the first extended philosophical argument in the western tradition-an argument which decree…
Michael V. Wedin presents a new interpretation of Parmenides' 'Way of truth': the most important philosophical treatise before the work of Plato and Aristotle. The 'Way of truth' contains the first extended philosophical argument in the western tradition-an argument which decree…
Michael V. Wedin presents a new interpretation of Parmenides' 'Way of truth': the most important philosophical treatise before the work of Plato and Aristotle. The 'Way of truth' contains the first extended philosophical argument in the western tradition-an argument which decree…
