Author : Shadi Bartsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 44,87 MB
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1107035058
This Companion examines the complete works of Seneca in context and establishes the importance of his legacy in Western thought.
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Release : 2018
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A comprehensive, up-to-date overview of Senecan studies, this Companion thoroughly examines the complete works of the Roman statesman, philosopher and playwright, emphasizing the aspects of his writings that challenge interpretation. The authors place Seneca in historical context and trace his impressive legacy in literature, art, religion and politics into the early modern period.
Author : Brad Inwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 2003-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521779852
This unique volume offers an odyssey through the ideas of the Stoics in three particular ways: first, through the historical trajectory of the school itself and its influence; second, through the recovery of the history of Stoic thought; third, through the ongoing confrontation with Stoicism, showing how it refines philosophical traditions, challenges the imagination, and ultimately defines the kind of life one chooses to lead. A distinguished roster of specialists have written an authoritative guide to the entire philosophical tradition. The first two chapters chart the history of the school in the ancient world, and are followed by chapters on the core themes of the Stoic system: epistemology, logic, natural philosophy, theology, determinism, and metaphysics. There are two chapters on what might be thought of as the heart and soul of the Stoics system: ethics.
Author : Shadi Bartsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1107052203
A lively and accessible guide to the rich literary, philosophical and artistic achievements of the notorious age of Nero.
Author : Joy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 2005-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521822831
An informative and wide-ranging overview of Native American literature from the 1770s to present day.
Author : Noel Emmanuel Lenski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521521574
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, it also achieves a level of scholarly sophistication and a freshness of interpretation that will be welcomed by the experts. The volume is divided into five sections that examine political history, religion, social and economic history, art, and foreign relations during the reign of Constantine, who steered the Roman Empire on a course parallel with his own personal development.
Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 1996-08-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139825259
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Plotinus was the greatest philosopher in the 700-year period between Aristotle and Augustine. He thought of himself as a disciple of Plato, but in his efforts to defend Platonism against Aristotelians, Stoics, and others, he actually produced a reinvigorated version of Platonism that later came to be known as 'Neoplatonism'. In this volume, sixteen leading scholars introduce and explain the many facets of Plotinus' complex system. They place Plotinus in the history of ancient philosophy while showing that he was a founder of medieval philosophy.
Author : Kirk Freudenburg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 2005-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521803595
Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, placing them within the contexts of Greco-Roman literary and political history. Besides addressing basic questions of authors, content, and form, the volume looks to the question of what satire 'does' within the world of Greco-Roman social exchanges, and goes on to treat the genre's further development, reception, and translation in Elizabethan England and beyond. Included are studies of the prosimetric, 'Menippean' satires that would become the models of Rabelais, Erasmus, More, and (narrative satire's crowning jewel) Swift.
Author : James Warren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139828169
This Companion presents both an introduction to the history of the ancient philosophical school of Epicureanism and also a critical account of the major areas of its philosophical interest. Chapters span the school's history from the early Hellenistic Garden to the Roman Empire and its later reception in the Early Modern period, introducing the reader to the Epicureans' contributions in physics, metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, ethics and politics. The international team of contributors includes scholars who have produced innovative and original research in various areas of Epicurean thought and they have produced essays which are accessible and of interest to philosophers, classicists, and anyone concerned with the diversity and preoccupations of Epicurean philosophy and the state of academic research in this field. The volume emphasises the interrelation of the different areas of the Epicureans' philosophical interests while also drawing attention to points of interpretative difficulty and controversy.
Author : C. E. W. Steel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 20,48 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.
