(Paperback)
By: Plato
ISBN: 9780140449280
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The trial and condemnation of Socrates for heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of Classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues, Plato also developed his own philosophy, based on Socrates' manifesto for a life guided by self-responsibilty.
(Paperback)
By: Plato
ISBN: 9780140449846
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2005
UK Publication Date: 27th January 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia.
(Paperback, New edition)
By: John Dillon
ISBN: 9780715616048
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Lucretius
ISBN: 9780141396903
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry.
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By: Aristotle
ISBN: 9780140449495
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2003
UK Publication Date: 29th January 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Addresses the question of how to live well, and originates the concept of cultivating a virtuous character as the basis of his ethical system. In this title, the author sets out to examine the nature of happiness. It discusses the nature of practical reasoning, the value and the objects of pleasure, and the different forms of friendship.
(Paperback)
By: Aristotle
ISBN: 9780140455472
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Plato
ISBN: 9780140455113
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this book is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. It addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men as 'guardians' of the people.
(Hardback)
By: Matt Gatton
ISBN: 9781639365821
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: Pegasus Books
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The death of Socrates may be the most famous unsolved murder in history. Set during the Peloponnesian War, this narrative solves that mystery, revealing for the first time how the philosopher was set up, who did it, and why.
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By: Alex Michaelides
ISBN: 9781409181637
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
UK Publication Date: 12th December 2019
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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With film rights snapped up by an Oscar winning Hollywood production company, rights sold in a world record 43 territories, and rave blurbs from David Baldacci, Lee Child and A.J. Finn, The Silent Patient is the international, multimillion-copy bestseller that you need to read this year.
(Paperback)
By: Plato
ISBN: 9780140449273
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2003
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerge a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts.
(Paperback)
By: Plato
ISBN: 9780141023847
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Epictetus
ISBN: 9780008619916
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 14th September 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
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By: Dan Beachy-Quick
ISBN: 9781571315441
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
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"From acclaimed poet and translator Dan Beachy-Quick comes this new addition to the Seedbank series: a warm, vivid translation of the earliest Greek intellects, inviting us to reconsider writing, and thinking, as a way of living meaningfully in the world"--
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By: Plato
ISBN: 9780140455045
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A Socratic dialogue in two parts. It begins with a theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story describing the creation of the universe, from its very beginning to the coming of man. It also comprises an account of the rise and fall of Atlantis, an empire ruled by the descendants of Poseidon, which ultimately sank into the sea.
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By: David J. Furley
ISBN: 9780691623443
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The two studies, "Indivisible Magnitudes," and "Aristotle and Epicurus on Voluntary Action," explain two doctrines in the philosophy of Epicurus, first by a detailed examination of the ancient Greek and Latin texts which describe them, and second by showing how earlier Greek philosophy gave rise to the problems Epicurus tackled. Originally publish
(Paperback)
By: Vittorio Bufacchi
ISBN: 9781350376687
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Emilie Savage-Smith
ISBN: 9781851246144
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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A beautifully packaged collection of 400 sayings, riddles and aphorisms from the ancient and medieval world.
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By: Professor Fred D. Miller
ISBN: 9781350179356
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Translation of a commentary based on versions found in disparate manuscripts originally written in Ancient Greek attributed to a philosopher, accepted to be Michael of Ephesus, here called Ps.- Alexander, and sometimes credited, likely incorrectly, to Alexander of AphrodIsias.
(Paperback)
By: Professor Fred D. Miller
ISBN: 9781350185623
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Charles P. Nemeth
ISBN: 9781350091856
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Charles P. Nemeth
ISBN: 9781350009462
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Mark Anderson
ISBN: 9781350555983
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A concise history of western philosophy from Plato to Nietzsche narrating its gradual decline into nihilism.
(Hardback)
By: Stephanie M. Semler
ISBN: 9780739198452
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book is of interest to anyone reading Aristotle, from beginners to specialists, and also to all those who are interested in the set of metaphysical problems surrounding persons.
(Hardback)
By: Lee Fratantuono
ISBN: 9781498511544
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book offers a comprehensive commentary on Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, the earliest surviving full scale epic poem from ancient Rome.
