Greek & Roman Philosophy
epub |eng | 2004-10-28 | Author:Cicero

Or a quality which manifests some great power is itself named as a god, such as Faith and Reason, both of which we have actually seen consecrated in the Capitol ...
( Category: Rome July 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2003-04-24 | Author:Homer

Just as when a quick thought darts through the heart of a man when cares crowd in on him 45 and toss him about or when bright glances spin off ...
( Category: Medieval July 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-30 | Author:Michael Grant

THE DEFEAT OF HANNIBAL After maintaining his army for fifteen years in Italy, he is driven out, followed to North Africa, and finally defeated at the battle of Zama.1 Over ...
( Category: Anthologies July 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-27 | Author:Marcus Aurelius

Book 12 1 All that you pray to reach at some point in the circuit of your life can be yours now – if you are generous to yourself. That ...
( Category: Rome July 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 1656-03-15 | Author:Plato [Plato]

PHAEDRUS: I join you in your prayer, Socrates, that these things, if they should be for our good, come to pass. But I have long been amazed at how much ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations July 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-10 | Author:Hippocrates

Part 15 I cannot think in what manner they who advance this doctrine, and transfer Art from the cause I have described to hypothesis, will cure men according to the ...
( Category: Medical July 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-15 | Author:Michael Bland Simmons

CHAPTER 1 1. See Jurado (2006): 81f., Test. X (= Lib., or. 18.178 [cf. Soc., HE III.23], comparing the polemical arguments of Porphyry and Julian; 87, Test. XXI (=Aug., Civ. ...
( Category: Greece July 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:Confucius [Confucius]

( Category: Confucianism July 3,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Lucius Annaeus Seneca [Seneca, Lucius Annaeus]

On the Constancy of the Wise Person LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA TRANSLATED BY JAMES KER (1.1) It would not be unfair for me to say, Serenus, that there is as much ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-26 | Author:Epicurus

Letter to Pythocles About celestial phenomena and scientific study Greetings: In your letter to me, of which Cleon was the bearer, you continue to show me affection which I have ...
( Category: Greek & Roman July 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Gregory, Andrew

VII. A qualified literal view At a more strategic level, the argument for the metaphorical view is that the description of chaos is incoherent, so much so that Plato must ...
( Category: Cosmology July 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Acharya, Vinod; Johnson, Ryan J.;

9 Passionate individuation Epicurean self-cultivation in Mill and Nietzsche Matthew James Dennis I Introduction The same strong susceptibilities which make the personal impulses vivid and powerful, are also the source ...
( Category: Ecology July 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Prudentius;Malamud, Martha A.; & Martha A. Malamud

“Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-03 | Author:Cicero

XXIX. Thus the first example, prototype, and original of tyranny has been discovered by us in the history of our own Roman State, religiously founded by Romulus, without applying to ...
( Category: History & Theory July 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-12 | Author:Robert Cavalier

Socrates draws a picture of the legions of the gods, led by Zeus, moving upward toward the outer vault of the heavens. Here they gaze beyond the cosmos and upon ...
( Category: Philosophers June 28,2020 )