Greek & Roman Philosophy
epub |eng | 2019-11-25 | Author:Tim Rood;Carol Atack;Tom Phillips;

Anachronism incorporated The idealized simplicity of the past was not simply treated with nostalgia or for satire. The possibility of its incorporation in political structures in the present was a ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-21 | Author:Benjamin Jowett

BOOK II. With these words I was thinking that I had made an end of the discussion; but the end, in truth, proved to be only a beginning. For Glaucon, ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 18,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-01-08 | Author:Cicero, Marcus Tullius [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]

( Category: Rome March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-05 | Author:Virgil [Virgil]

Georgic IV Of air-born honey, gift of heaven, I now Take up the tale. Upon this theme no less Look thou, Maecenas, with indulgent eye. A marvellous display of puny ...
( Category: Medieval March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-11 | Author:Emily Wilson

SENECA’S WEALTH Poison is drunk from gold.24 We turn now to one of the most fraught questions about Seneca’s life story: his vast accumulation of wealth under Nero.25 For our ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 17,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:J. Angelo Corlett

References Brickhouse, Thomas C., and Nicholas D. Smith. 1994. Plato’s Socrates. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ———. 2010. Socratic moral psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cherniss, Harold. 1945. The riddle of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-13 | Author:Voltaire

Gordon thought like him. They both laughed with pity when they read of the sovereigns of Fezensacs, Fesansaguet, and Astrac: such a study could be relished only by their heirs, ...
( Category: Satire March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-23 | Author:Aristotle [Aristotle]

CHAP. XXX.: The constitution as proposed for the future. Those who were appointed, then, drew up these measures. And after their ratification the five thousand chose a hundred out of ...
( Category: History & Theory March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-03 | Author:Elliot D. Cohen [Elliot D. Cohen]

Realistically, this was not the way to fly! Exerting the willpower to hold back your actions until you have had an opportunity to check out your itinerary of fallacies can ...
( Category: Greek & Roman Philosophy March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-12 | Author:J. Michael Hoffpauir

No Matter What We May Suffer Socrates continues: “Since this is how the argument holds, nothing else is to be considered by us except what we were saying just now: ...
( Category: History & Theory March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-12 | Author:Oleg V. Bychkov & Anne Sheppard

30 In Euripides’ Medea Medea kills her own children to take revenge on their father, Jason, for leaving her and marrying the daughter of the king of Corinth. 31 Astydamas ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Plato [Plato]

It will be very clear to you, Athenians, as I was saying, that Meletus has no care at all, great or small, about the matter. But still I should like ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Aristotle & Justin Kaplan

BOOK III 1. [Praise and blame attach to voluntary actions.] Since virtue is concerned with passions and actions, and on voluntary passions and actions praise and blame are bestowed, on ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:Voltaire [Voltaire]

The phœnix, who was wiser than Formosanta, because he was divested of passion, consoled her upon the road. He gently insinuated to her that it was shocking to punish one's ...
( Category: Literary March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Xenophon, ,Ambler, Wayne,Buzzetti, Eric

Chapter 7 After this they marched five stages, thirty parasangs, against Taochians, and their provisions gave out, for the Taochians dwelt in strongholds into which they carried up and kept ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 12,2020 )