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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 22,26 MB
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385228476
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385365643
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Plato Plato
Publisher : Xist Publishing
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1681956942
Plato's Guide to the Good Life “The unexamined life is not worth living” -Apology, Plato An original account of the speech Socrates makes at the trial in which he is charged with not recognizing the gods recognized by the state, inventing new deities, and corrupting the youth of Athens. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes
Author : Robert Browning
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Plato
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Philosophy
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Author : Donald R. Morrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 15,91 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521833426
Essays from a diverse group of experts providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher.
Author : Peter Swallow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 2023-09-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 019286856X
In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the long-nineteenth century, setting it in the broader context of Victorian Classicism and, more specifically, the period's reception of Greek tragedy. Swallow shows the surprising extent to which Aristophanes was repurposed across an array of mediums in Victorian Britain, and demonstrates that Aristophanic reception in the period was always a process of speaking to contemporary issues--making Old Comedy new. The book examines two strands of Aristophanic reception: the political and the aesthetic. From the start of the long-nineteenth century, the British reception of Aristophanes tied into contemporary political debate, as historians, translators and commentators, and even the burlesque writer J.R. Planché activated Aristophanes in support of their own political positions. But each writer's conceptualisation of Aristophanes was as different as their political outlooks. While many writers who appropriated Aristophanes for their cause were Tories, a notable outlier is Percy Shelley, whose Aristophanic drama Swellfoot the Tyrant activated Old Comedy to argue for democratic republicanism--what we would now call a left-wing political revolution. The second strand of Aristophanic reception, which developed from around the middle of the nineteenth century, actively depoliticised Old Comedy and instead received it through an aesthetic lens. The aesthetics of Aristophanes--with an emphasis on the beautiful and the archaeological--also lay behind school and university productions of Old Comedy during this period. These strands of nineteenth-century Aristophanic reception find synthesis towards the book's conclusion. Edwardian women's receptions of Aristophanes show how activists used his plays to argue for equal educational opportunities and the right to vote. In the final chapter, Gilbert Murray and George Bernard Shaw's receptions reveal both the political and artistic potential of Aristophanes.
Author : Saint Justin (Martyr)
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780809104727
An English translation from Greek of Justin Martyr's two major apologetic works, which are recognized as a formative influence on the development of Christian theology in the early church. +
Author : Marina Marren
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0810144204
In Plato and Aristophanes, Marina Marren contends that our search for communal justice must start with self-examination. The realization that there are things that we cannot know about ourselves unless we become the subject of a joke is integral to such self-scrutiny. Jokes provide a new perspective on our politics and ethics; they are essential to our civic self-awareness. Marren makes this case by delving into Plato’s Republic, a foundational work of political philosophy. While the Republic straightforwardly condemns the decadence and greed of a tyrant, Plato’s attack on political idealism is both solemn and comedic. In fact, Plato draws on the same comedic stock and tropes as do Aristophanes’s plays. Marren’s book strikes up an innovative conversation between three works by Aristophanes—Assembly Women, Knights, and Birds—and Plato’s philosophy, prompting important questions about individual convictions and one’s personal search for justice. These dialogic works offer critiques of tyranny that are by turns brilliant, scathing, and exuberant, making light of faults and ideals alike. Philosophical comedy exposes despotism in individuals as well as systems of government claiming to be just and good. This critique holds as much bite against contemporary injustices as it did at the time of Aristophanes and Plato. An ingenious new work by an emerging scholar, Plato and Aristophanes shows that comedy—in tandem with philosophy and politics—is essential to self-examination. And without such examination, there is no hope for a just life.
Author : Plato
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 1887
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