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  • Clearchus of Soli

    Text, Translation, and Discussion

    Edited by Robert Mayhew, David C. Mirhady, Tiziano Dorandi, Stephen White ...
    Series series Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities
    This book showcases a figure whose life and work bridge Classical and Hellenistic Greece. It comprises Tiziano Dorandi’s comprehensive new edition of the Clearchus ‘fragments’, accompanied by a richly annotated English translation from Stephen White, as well as nine new studies examining key aspects of Clearchus’ thought.Clearchus, from Soli on the island of Cyprus, was an Aristotelian philosopher ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Phaenias of Eresus

    Text, Translation, and Discussion

    Edited by Oliver Hellmann, David Mirhady ...
    Series series Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities
    "Phaenias of Eresus (c. 375 BC) was a member of Aristotle's school, the ""Peripatos"" or ""Lyceum,"" and a friend and compatriot of Aristotle's successor, Theophrastus. Phaenias's scholarly interests stretched from strictly philosophical treatises to chronology and the history of philosophy and poetry; to the lives, fortunes, and manners of death of tyrants; to biographical and historical themes ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Isocrates I

    Series series The Oratory of Classical Greece
    This is the fourth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece series. Planned for publication over several years, the series will present all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C. in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Demosthenes' "On the Crown"

    Rhetorical Perspectives

    by Lois Peters Agnew, David Mirhady, Richard A Katula, Jeffrey Walker, Richard Leo Enos ...
    Series series Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address
    Demosthenes’ speech On the Crown (330 B.C.E.), in which the master orator spectacularly defended his public career, has long been recognized as a masterpiece. The speech has been in continuous circulation from Demosthenes’ lifetime to the present day, and multiple generations have acclaimed it as the greatest speech ever written. In addition to a clear and accessible translation, *Demosthenes’** ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

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  • The Canterbury Tales

    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Christopher Cannon ...
    Translated by David Wright ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Whoever best acquits himself, and tells The most amusing and instructive tale, Shall have a dinner, paid for by us all...' In Chaucer's most ambitious poem, The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387), a group of pilgrims assembles in an inn just outside London and agree to entertain each other on the way to Canterbury by telling stories. The pilgrims come from all ranks of society, from the crusading Knight ... Read more

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  • Symposium

    by Plato ...
    In his brilliant dialogue, Symposium, Plato presents an imaginary dinner-party set in Athens in 416 BC where the guests include Aristophanes, Socrates and the most popular Athenian of his day, golden boy Alcibiades. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates' famous account of the views of Diotima, a prophetess who taught him that love is our means of trying to attain goodness. ... Read more

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  • The Art of Rhetoric

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  • Republic

    by Robin Waterfield ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
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  • The Hellenistic Philosophers: Volume 1, Translations of the Principal Sources with Philosophical Commentary

    by A. A. Long, D. N. Sedley ...
    Volume 1 presents the texts in new translations by the authors, and these are accompanied by a philosophical and historical commentary designed for use by all readers, including those with no background in the classical world. With its glossary and indexes, this volume can stand alone as an independent tool of study. ... Read more

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