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  • - Essays on the Transformation of Classical Traditions presented to Professor I.G. Kidd
     
    £123.99

  • - Essays on the Transformation of Classical Traditions presented to Professor I.G. Kidd
     
    £38.49

    The bulk of this volume is built around the theme of Kidd's own inaugural lecture at St. Andrews, "The Passionate Intellect." Many of the contributions follow this theme through by examining how individual people and texts influenced the direction of various traditions.

  • - His Psychological, Doxographical, and Scientific Writings
    by Dimitri Gutas & William W. Fortenbaugh
    £50.99

    The volume contains new editions of two brief scientific essays-On Fish and Afeteoro/o^y-accompanied by translations and commentary.

  • - Discussion
    by Elizabeth Pender
    £41.99

  • - Text and Translation
    by Johannes M. van Ophuijsen, Eckart Schutrumpf & Susan Prince
    £50.99

    Heraclides of Pontus hailed from the shores of the Black Sea

  • - Text, Translation and Discussion
    by Eckart Schutrumpf
    £50.99

    This tenth volume in the series Rutgers Studies in Classical Humanities includes a facing translation of the Greek and Latin texts, making the material accessible to readers who lack the ancient languages, and the accompanying essays introduce important issues beyond the scope of the text

  • - Text, Translation and Discussion
    by Eckart Schutrumpf
    £41.99

    Demetrius of Phalerum (c. 355-280BCE) of Phalerum was a philosopher-statesman. He studied in the Peripatos under Theophrastus and subsequently used his political influence to help his teacher acquire property for the Peripatetic school. As overseer of Athens, his governance was characterized by a decade of domestic peace

  • - The Work of Arius Didymus
    by David Riesman
    £123.99

    Providing the only full-length study of the compendium of Greek philosophy attributed to Arius Didymus, court philosopher to the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus, this volume elucidates Stoic and Peripatetic ethics for classicists and philosophers.

  • - Text, Translation, and Discussion
     
    £123.99

    This volume includes new scholarship, with translation of source texts for the writings, thought, and influence of Phaenias (whose name also appears as "Phanias"and "Phainias"), as well as essays that take up various areas of his life and work in greater detail.

  • - Discussion
    by Elizabeth Pender
    £123.99

    Heraclides of Pontus hailed from the shores of the Black Sea

  • by Istvan Bodnar
    £41.99

    Eudemus of Rhodes was a pupil of Aristotle in the second half of the fourth century BCE

  • - Text, Translation, and Discussion
     
    £123.99

    Turns our attention to Aristo of Iulis on Ceos - confused with the like-named Stoic philosopher from Chios - who was active in the last quarter of the third century and wrote biographies of Socrates and Epicurus. This volume includes notes on the Greek and Latin texts (an apparatus criticus) and substantive notes that accompany the translation.

  • by William Fortenbaugh
    £123.99

  • - On His Life and Work
    by William Fortenbaugh
    £34.49

  • - Volume 10
    by Eckart Schutrumpf
    £123.99

    A study of Dicaearchus of Messana, a peripatetic philosopher who, like Theophrastus of Eresus, was a pupil of Aristotle. His interest in good and bad lifestyles found expression in works such as "On the Sacrifice at Ilium" and "On the Destruction of Human Beings".

  • - Text, Translation and Discussion
    by Eckart Schutrumpf
    £123.99

    Demetrius of Phalerum was a philosopher-statesman, he became the advisor of Ptolemy. He is said to have been in charge of legislation and he probably influenced the founding of the Museum and Library. This text reflects the growing interest in the Hellenistic period and their philosophical schools.

  • - His Psychological, Doxographical, and Scientific Writings
    by Dimitri Gutas & William W. Fortenbaugh
    £123.99

    Theophrastus of Eresus was Aristotle's pupil and successor as head of the Peripatetic School

  • - Text, Translation and Discussion
    by William Fortenbaugh
    £123.99

  • - The Work of Arius Didymus
    by David Riesman
    £43.49

    This volume contains a study of the compendium of Greek philosophy attributed to Arius Didymus, court philosopher to the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus. It elucidates stoic and perpatetic ethics for classicists and philosphers and provides textual analysis of important passages.

  • - Text, Translation, and Discussion
    by Stephen White
    £123.99

    Volume 12 in the RUSCH series continues work already begun on the School of Aristotle. It focuses on two Peripatetic philosophers who lived in the third century BCE, when Stoicism and Epicureanism flourished. Lyco of Troas was the third head of the Peripatos after Aristotle. Hieronymus of Rhodes was a member of the school and an antagonist of Lyco.

  • - Text, Translation and Discussion
    by William Fortenbaugh
    £50.99

  • - Text, Translation, and Discussion
    by William W. Fortenbaugh
    £123.99

    This volume features a unique epitome of Aristotelian practical philosophy. It is often attributed to Arius Didymus who composed a survey of Peripatetic on three areas: ethics, household management, and politics. The quality of the epitome, which draws not only on the surviving treatises of Aristotle, but also later Peripatetics, is excellent.

  • - Texts and Discussion
    by Carl Huffman
    £123.99

    Aristoxenus of Tarentum was reported to have been bitterly disappointed when Theophrastus was chosen instead of him to succeed Aristotle as the head of the Peripatetic School

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