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Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2003. Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led by the title character, the women of the warring city-states of Greece agree to withhold sexual favours with their husbands until they agree to cease fighting. The war of the sexes that ensues makes 'Lysistrata' a comedy without peer in the history of theatre. 126pp.. ISBN: 0872206041. Cloth. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. GREEK DRAMA TRANSLATIONS INTO ENGLISH CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN DRAMATIC WORKS AUTHOR ANCIENT CLASSICAL MEDIEVAL. more information

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Texas: Bibal Press, 2005. This book contains the complete Greek text of "Plato's Ion", an English translation of it, and an in depth analysis. The Ion is one of the shortest of Plato's dialogues and yet it raises two most critical questions. First, is there an art of "poetry as a whole," that is, is there an art of words and, if so, what is its nature? All acts of language are poetic, and philosophy is impossible without them. Thus arises the second question: does philosophy itself exist only in the use of words, in the question and answer, in the interchange called dialectic. Dialectic is between people, so that it has an essentially social as well as an intellectual dimension, and it is while the conversation continues that philosophy fully exists; it lives in the performance. Ion performs Homer, and Plato (or his reader) performs Socrates. There are similarities - for example, both have musical or metrical structures - but there are also crucial differences - Ion's performance of Homer has hearers; Plato's performance of Socrates has participants. 394pp.. ISBN: 1930566514. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. PLATO PHILOSOPHY ION AESTHETICS GREEK. more information

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USA: Hackett Publishing Co., 1998. PRICED FOR THE TWO VOLUMES.Volume I:346pp.Volume II:270pp.. ISBN: 0872204154. New Edition. Cloth. New/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. LAW GREEK CLASSICS FAMILY. more information

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Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2003. Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language, history, and culture, this new abridgement presents those selections that comprise Herodotus' historical narrative. These are meticulously annotated, and supplemented with a chronology of the Archaic Age, Historical Epilogue, glossary of main characters and places, index of proper names, and maps. 201pp.. ISBN: 0872206688. Cloth. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. GREECE HISTORY PERSIAN WARS 500 449 B C IRAN 640 ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST. more information

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Copenhagen S, Denmark: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004. During the last decades the vast corpus of Danish Neo-Latin literature has been the object of growing scholarly attention. In this collection of articles Professor Minna Skafte Jensen analyses a number of poems by some of the most important Danish writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Central themes are investigated - among them love, friendship and Lutheranism - and Danish Neo-Latin poetry is placed in its European context. 273pp.Vol.12 in Renaissancestudier series.. ISBN: 8772899611. First Edition. Paperback. New/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. DANISH NEO LATIN LITERATURE CLASSICS 16TH 17TH CENTURIES. more information

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Amherst, New York, U.S.A.: Humanity Books, 2009. This absorbing study of Plato's criticism of poetry offers a new interpretation based upon central features of both the pre-Platonic conception of poetry and previously neglected features of Plato's various discussions of poetry and the poets. Professor Mitscherling's analysis is unique in that he concentrates on the philosophical significance of Plato's distinction between dramatic and non-dramatic sorts of poetry. Mitscherling shows that this distinction proves in fact to be central to the conception of poetry that Plato consistently elaborates throughout his dialogues. Mitscherling also makes a unique contribution by outlining a possible Platonic aesthetics, which draws on current work in phenomenology and hermeneutics in such a way as to promise an entirely new direction for current work in continental aesthetics. The author employs Gadamer's analyses of the ontology of the work of art, in conjunction with a phenomenological analysis of the aesthetic experience, in the construction of a foundation for aesthetics that is consistently Platonic. Mitscherling concludes with the hypothesis that Plato's criticism of poetry did not apply to poetry itself, nor was it directed to art in general or the educational system, or the Sophists. Rather, Plato was specifically against the technic of mimesis, that is, the technique of persuading by appearing to be what one is not, or by merely appearing to speak the truth.479pp.. ISBN: 9781591024316. Cloth/Laminated Boards. New/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. PLATO POETRY CLASSICS RHETORIC MIMESIS PHILOSOPHY. more information

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New York: Prometheus Books, 2007. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of the West was Socrates of Athens (469-399 BCE). Literally, thousands of books and other works of art have been devoted to him, yet his character and the tenets of his philosophy remain elusive. Even his contemporaries had very different impressions of him, and since he himself left no writings to posterity, we can only wonder: Who was this man really? What ideas and ideals can be truthfully associated with him? What is the basis for the extraordinary influence he has exerted throughout history? Philosopher Luis E. Navia presents a compelling portrayal of Socrates in this very readable and well-researched book, which is both a biography of the man and an exploration of his ideas. Through a critical and documented study of the major ancient sources about Socrates - in the writings of Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, and Aristotle - Navia reconstructs a surprisingly consistent portrait of this enigmatic philosopher. He links Socrates' conviction that the unexamined life is not worth living with Immanuel Kant's later concept of an innate moral imperative as the only meaningful purpose of human existence. He highlights Socrates' unrelenting search for the essence and value of the soul as that aspect of his philosophical journey that animated and structured all his activities. Navia also considers Socrates' relationship with the Sophists, his stance vis-a-vis the religious beliefs and practices of his time, his view of the relationship between legality and morality, and the function of language in human life. Finally, he eloquently captures the Socratic legacy, which, over twenty-four centuries after his death, is still so urgently relevant today. Navia brings to life this perennially important philosopher, illuminating the relevance of his ideas for our modern world.291pp.. ISBN: 9781591025016. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SOCRATES PHILOSOPHY GREEKS ANCIENT HISTORY. more information

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Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2001. In the early fourth century B.C., Plato founded his famous Athenian school, the Academy. Among the students who came to study there were two women, Axiothea of Phlius, who wore men's clothes, and Lasthenia of Mantinea. In five dialogues, inspired by those of Plato, C. D. C. Reeve imagines these women in conversation with one another, with Plato himself, and with their fellow Academician, Aristotle. The topics they discuss - women, art, justice, freedom, and the nature of reality - are all drawn from Plato's Republic. Their lively exchanges, which quickly engage the reader, are at once an exciting and accessible introduction to some of Republic's central themes and an exploration of some of the most controversial questions we face in trying to make sense of our complexly shared lives. 72pp. . ISBN: 0872206025. Cloth. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SOCIOLOGY SOCIAL SCIENCE CLASSICS PLATO PHILOSOPHY. more information

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Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.: Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company, Incorporated, 2000. 269pp.Focus Classical Reprint of the 1876 edition.. ISBN: 158510020X. Facsimile Reprint. Paperback. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. GREEK POETRY HISTORY CRITICISM SIDGWICK HENRY 1838 1900 LITERARY CLASSICS. more information

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Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2002. 152pp.Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatises -- and in a style influenced by twentieth-century poetry -- this bold new translation seeks to renew our appreciation of a work often relegated to the pigeonhole of didactic poetry about farming. In doing so, it reveals the Georgics as a remarkable window on Roman conceptions of the natural world and of the place of human life within it -- and also conveys a sense of how daring were Virgil's poetics in their day. Footnotes offer a wealth of information on mythology, agriculture, wildlife, geography, and astronomy while highlighting the technical, scientific, ethnographic, and other registers of the poem. . ISBN: 0872206106. Cloth. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. DIDACTIC POETRY GENERAL VIRGIL CLASSICS. more information

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