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The Unity of Plato’s Sophist
Plato’s later dialogue, the Sophist, is deemed one of the greatest works in the history of philosophy, but scholars have been shy of confronting... Les mer
The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet
Two different versions of Romeo and Juliet were published during Shakespeare’s lifetime: the second quarto of 1599, on which modern editions are... Les mer
Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy
Offered here is the first comprehensive treatment in English of the philosophical system of the seventeenth-century philosopher Pierre Gassendi.... Les mer
Plato’s Introduction of Forms
Scholars of Plato are divided between those who emphasize the literature of the dialogues and those who emphasize the argument of the dialogues, and... Les mer
Shakespearean Suspect Texts
There are forty-one problematic play texts, variously classified as bad quartos or memorial reconstructions, from Shakespeare’s time. Textual... Les mer
Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity
This book is at once an analytical study of one of the most important mathematical texts of antiquity, the Mathematical Collection of the... Les mer
Shakespeare’s Troy
Heather James examines the ways in which Shakespeare handles the inheritance and transmission of the Troy legend. She argues that Shakespeare’s use... Les mer
Method and Politics in Plato’s Statesman
Among Plato’s works, the Statesman is usually seen as transitional between the Republic and the Laws. This book argues that the dialogue deserves a... Les mer
The Authorship of Shakespeare’s Plays
This book introduces a method for determining the authorship of Renaissance plays. Based on the rapid rate of change in English grammar in the late... Les mer
Aristotle East and West
This book traces the development of conceptions of God and the relationship between God’s being and activity from Aristotle, through the pagan... Les mer
Essays, Mainly Shakespearean
Anne Barton’s essays on Shakespeare and his contemporaries are characterized by their combination of intelligence, humanity and elegance. In this... Les mer
Shakespeare, A Lover’s Complaint, and John Davies of Hereford
When Shakespeare’s Sonnets were published in 1609 a poem called A Lover’s Complaint was included by the publisher, Thomas Thorpe, who was... Les mer
Thucydides and Internal War
In this book Jonathan Price attempts to demonstrate that Thucydides consciously viewed and presented the Peloponnesian War in terms of a condition of... Les mer
Hamlet without Hamlet
Hamlet without Hamlet sets out to counter the modern tradition of abstracting the character Hamlet from the play. For over two centuries, Hamlet has... Les mer
Substance, Form, and Psyche
This book is a re-thinking of Aristotle’s metaphysical theory of material substances. The view of the author is that the ‘substances’ are the... Les mer
Hamlet without Hamlet
Hamlet without Hamlet sets out to counter the modern tradition of abstracting the character Hamlet from the play. For over two centuries, Hamlet has... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Poetry
This Companion provides a full introduction to the poetry of William Shakespeare through discussion of his freestanding narrative poems, the Sonnets,... Les mer
Proclus
Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s dialogue Timaeus is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Poetry
This Companion provides a full introduction to the poetry of William Shakespeare through discussion of his freestanding narrative poems, the Sonnets,... Les mer
Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History
This book addresses the question of how and why history begins with the work of Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War is distinctive in... Les mer
Human Goodness
Human Goodness presents an original, pragmatic moral theory that successfully revives and revitalizes the classical Greek concept of happiness. It... Les mer
Judaism and the Doctrine of Creation
The topic of this book is creation. It breaks down into discussions of two distinct, but interrelated, questions: what does the universe look like,... Les mer
Herodotus: Histories Book VIII
The Battle of Salamis was the first great (and unexpected) victory of the Greeks over the Persian forces under Xerxes, whose defeat had important... Les mer
The Body Divine
The Body Divine explores the ways in which two spiritual teachers, one Christian (Teilhard de Chardin) and one Hindu (Ramanuja) have seen the world... Les mer