Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 1683
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Author : University of California, Los Angeles. Library
Publisher :
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : Jostein Gaarder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466804270
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Author : Nancy Lorraine Thompson
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art, Roman
ISBN : 1588392228
A complete introduction to the rich cultural legacy of Rome through the study of Roman art ... It includes a discussion of the relevance of Rome to the modern world, a short historical overview, and descriptions of forty-five works of art in the Roman collection organized in three thematic sections: Power and Authority in Roman Portraiture; Myth, Religion, and the Afterlife; and Daily Life in Ancient Rome. This resource also provides lesson plans and classroom activities."--Publisher website.
Author : C. E. W. Steel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521509939
A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity.
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,49 MB
Release : 2006-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1139456164
This work is a complete English translation of the Latin Etymologies of Isidore, Bishop of Seville (c.560–636). Isidore compiled the work between c.615 and the early 630s and it takes the form of an encyclopedia, arranged by subject matter. It contains much lore of the late classical world beginning with the Seven Liberal Arts, including Rhetoric, and touches on thousands of topics ranging from the names of God, the terminology of the Law, the technologies of fabrics, ships and agriculture to the names of cities and rivers, the theatrical arts, and cooking utensils. Isidore provides etymologies for most of the terms he explains, finding in the causes of words the underlying key to their meaning. This book offers a highly readable translation of the twenty books of the Etymologies, one of the most widely known texts for a thousand years from Isidore's time.
Author : William George Bruce
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 10,73 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Education
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A periodical of school administration.
Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Conduct of life
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Page : 3176 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
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Author : Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,27 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0892363339
Hendrik Petrus Berlage, the Dutch architect and architectural philosopher, created a series of buildings and a body of writings from 1886 to 1909 that were among the first efforts to probe the problems and possibilities of modernism. Although his Amsterdam Stock Exchange, with its rational mastery of materials and space, has long been celebrated for its seminal influence on the architecture of the 20th century, Berlage's writings are highlighted here. Bringing together Berlage's most important texts, among them "Thoughts on Style in Architecture", "Architecture's Place in Modern Aesthetics", and "Art and Society", this volume presents a chapter in the history of European modernism. In his introduction, Iain Boyd Whyte demonstrates that the substantial contribution of Berlage's designs to modern architecture cannot be fully appreciated without an understanding of the aesthetic principles first laid out in his writings.
