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A Plato Reader offers eight of Plato's best-known worksEuthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, and Republicunabridged, expertly introduced and annotated, and in widely admired translations by C. D. C. Reeve, G. M. A. Grube, Alexander Nehamas, and Paul Woodruff.

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In the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar's dictatorship, Cicero turned to philosophy, producing a massive and important body of work. This title examines the rhetorical battle that Cicero stages in his philosophical prefaces - a battle between the forces that would oppose or support his project.

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These new translations of two treatises dealing with the possibility and nature of knowledge in the face of skeptical challenges are the first to be rendered from the Latin critical edition, the first to be made specifically with a philosophical audience in mind, and the first to be translated by a scholar with expertise in both modern epistemology and philosophy of language.

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Socrates was accused of impiety and corrupting the youth of ancient Athens and was tried, convicted, imprisoned, and executed. This book compares two key dialogues on the death of Socrates, including the hard-to-find Xenophon's Apology.

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Suitable for beginning students, this book presents an overview of Aristotle's entire system of thought.

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Suitable for beginning students, this book presents an overview of Aristotle's entire system of thought.

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Aristotle's moral philosophy is a pillar of Western ethical thought. It bequeathed to the world an emphasis on virtues and vices, happiness as well-being or a life well lived, and rationally motivated action as a mean between extremes. Its influence was felt well beyond antiquity into the Middle Ages, particularly through the writings of St. Thomas

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A translation that allows the simplicity and vigor of the Greek diction to shine through.

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Plato's "Cratylus" is about language, specifically about names (onomata), a category that includes proper names, common nouns, adjectives, participles and infinitives. As Plato's most focused discussion of language, the text should be useful for every student of his work.

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A seminal work by Aristotle on the nature of that which animates living things. Includes well-chosen notes and a comprehensive introduction.

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This text brings together for the first time two complete key works from classical antiquity on the politics of Athens: Plato's "Menexenus" and the funeral oration by Pericles (from Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War). With an introductory essay, notes.

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English translation of Plato's dialogue of Socrates with two prominent Sophists, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, and their conflicting philosophical views, in which Plato satirizes the logical fallacies of the Sophists. With notes, introduction, interpretive essay, and a glossary of important words.

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A Greek language reader with extensive commentary in English; it is an ideal introduction to Plato and Greek prose. The Greek is clear and easy to follow but not overly simple, with word-by-word, line-by-line commentary including grammar help and explanation.

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Why did Greek tragedy and "the tragic" come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity And how has this belief affected modern understandings of Greek drama In Genealogy of the Tragic, Joshua Billings answers these and related questions by tracing the emergence of the modern theory of the tragic, which was first developed around 1800 by

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English translation of Plato's dialogue of Socrates seeking the true definition of rhetoric, with an attempt to show the flaws of the sophistic orators. Includes speeches from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian Wars that reflect Plato's themes.

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English translations of "Gorgias" and "Rhetoric", which, by juxtaposing the two texts, creates an interesting "conversation": Plato's questioning of what is problematic in rhetoric and Aristotle's response on what makes rhetoric useful. With notes, introduction and glossary.

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