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By: Baird, Forrest E.; Kaufmann, Walter
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Prentice Hall: 1999
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 2196198
Third edition. Light edge wear, text unmarked. 1999 Trade Paperback. For courses in Ancient Philosophy. Designed to be accessible to today's students, this anthology of readings in Ancient Western philosophy focuses on the writings of the most important Greek philosophers, along with selections from some of their Roman followers. Striking a balance between major and minor figures, it features the best available translations of texts--complete works or complete selections... View more info
By: Barnes, Jonathan
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 2001
Seller ID: 2279564
Smudge on rear wrapper. 2001 Trade Paperback. xlix, 282 pp. The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy—the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build. Yet the importance of the Pre-Socratics thinkers lies less in their influence—great though that was—than in their astonishing intellectual ambition and imaginative reach. Zeno's dizzying 'proofs' that motion is impossible; the extraordinary a... View more info
![Image for Philo Supplement II [2]: Questions and Answers on Exodus (The Loeb Classical Library No. 401)](/assets/images/product/2194852.jpg)
Price: $17.50
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd: 1970
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 2194852
3rd printing.Minimal wear to jacket corners, corners of front jacket flap clipped (list prices still present). 1970 Hard Cover. viii, 306, [1], 8 pp. The second of two supplementary volumes designed to accompany Loeb's ten-volume set of Philo's works. This volume treats questions and answers on Exodus. The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BCE to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic c... View more info
By: Plato; Jowett, B. [Benjamin]
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Anchor Books: 1973
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2272372
Page edges faintly toned. 1973 Mass Market Paperback. 552 pp. Plato (428/427 BC – 348/347 BC), was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of natural philosophy, science, and Western philosophy. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: The Dial Press / J.J. Little & Ives Company: 1936
Seller ID: 2280911
Endpapers and page edges foxed, faint stain on rear board. 1936 Hard Cover. lxi, [3], 302, 416, 449, [1], 483, [1] pp. 8vo. Selections from Plato's most famous writings, along with a biography of Plato and a history of his writings and philosophy, with introduction and analysis by Benjamin Jowett of Oxford University. View more info
By: Plato; Jowett, Benjamin; Oates, Whitney J.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979
Seller ID: 2278053
1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, [4], 208 pp. 8vo. Burgundy full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the original Greek by Benjamin Jewett, with his introductory analyses, a preface by Whitney J. Oates, and illustrations by Eugene Karlin. Three dialogues by the famous disciple of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, best known for The Republic. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Axios Press: 2008
Seller ID: 2279561
A fine copy. 2008 Trade Paperback. vi, 138 pp. Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus, founded around 307 BC. Epicurus was an atomic materialist, following in the steps of Democritus. His materialism led him to a general attack on superstition and divine intervention. Following Aristippus—about whom very little is known—Epicurus believed that what he called pleasure (?????) was the greatest good, but ... View more info
By: Zeller, Eduard
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Dover: 1980
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2265670
Reissue. Lightly rubbed. 1980 Trade Paperback. A work covering the Pre-Socratics through the Neo-Platonists. View more info
By: Zeruneith, Keld; Dees, Russell L. (Translator); Jones, W. Glyn (Editor)
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Overlook Duckworth: 2007
Seller ID: 1500745
Remainder mark on page base. 2007 Hard Cover. 605 pages. The Wooden Horse is a powerful, provocative, and engaging new work — by perhaps the world’s most insightful and acclaimed historian of the ancient world — that establishes the foundation of the Western world’s conceptions of society, philosophy, and poetry by tracing the processes by which consciousness evolved from its roots in the mother cults of Ancient Greece, with its attendant matriarchal mode of thou... View more info
By: [Plato; Socrates]; Brickhouse, Thomas C.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Routledge: 2004
Seller ID: 2196724
Light edge wear. 2004 Trade Paperback. Socrates is one of the most influential philosophers in western civilisation, and Plato his most famous pupil. TheEuthyphro, Apology of Socrates, Crito and the death scene from the Phaedo are Plato's account of Socrates' trial and execution, and together they provide the most important depiction of Socrates' ideas. In this GuideBook, Brickhouse and Smith provide clear explanations of these texts for students coming to them for... View more info
By: [Plato]; Oates, Whitney J.
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1972
Seller ID: 1521142
Minor ink marks. 1972 Hard Cover. 81 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; I. The Trends in Greek Literature before Plato; II. Plato's Philosophical Approach; III. The Quest for Definition; IV. The Phaedrus and Plato's Philosophy of Art; V. The Quasi-Mysticism of Plato; VI. Conclusion. View more info
