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Selected Dialogues of Plato
The Benjamin Jowett Translation
Written by Plato
Introduction by Hayden Pelliccia
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 14, 2009
Price: $14.00
Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato have long been classics in their own right. In this volume, Professor Hayden Pelliccia has revised Jowett's renderings of five key
dialogues, giving us a modern Plato faithful to both Jowett's best features and Plato's own masterly style.
Gathered here are many of Plato's liveliest and richest... Read more >
The Benjamin Jowett Translation
Written by Plato
Introduction by Hayden Pelliccia
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 14, 2009
Price: $14.00
Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato have long been classics in their own right. In this volume, Professor Hayden Pelliccia has revised Jowett's renderings of five key
dialogues, giving us a modern Plato faithful to both Jowett's best features and Plato's own masterly style.
Gathered here are many of Plato's liveliest and richest... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Basic Works of Aristotle
Written by Aristotle
Edited by Richard McKeon
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $21.95
Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon’s The Basic Works of Aristotle–constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years–has long been considered the... Read more >
Written by Aristotle
Edited by Richard McKeon
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $21.95
Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon’s The Basic Works of Aristotle–constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years–has long been considered the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Plato For Beginners
Written by Robert Cavalier
Illustrated by Eric Lurio
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $14.95
All philosophy is a footnote to Plato. No other person so shaped the Western world and the way we think about it. Plato’s questions remain as real for us today as they were 2500 years ago, and as human beings, we can not avoid their presence nor shirk our responsibility to... Read more >
Written by Robert Cavalier
Illustrated by Eric Lurio
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $14.95
All philosophy is a footnote to Plato. No other person so shaped the Western world and the way we think about it. Plato’s questions remain as real for us today as they were 2500 years ago, and as human beings, we can not avoid their presence nor shirk our responsibility to... Read more >
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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea
Why the Greeks Matter
Written by Thomas Cahill
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2004
Price: $16.00
In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining—and historically unassailable—journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.
In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors... Read more >
Why the Greeks Matter
Written by Thomas Cahill
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2004
Price: $16.00
In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining—and historically unassailable—journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.
In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors... Read more >
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The Basic Works of Aristotle
Written by Aristotle
Edited by Richard McKeon
Introduction by C.D.C. Reeve
Format: Trade Paperback, 1520 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $21.95
Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon’s The Basic Works of Aristotle–constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years–has long been considered the... Read more >
Written by Aristotle
Edited by Richard McKeon
Introduction by C.D.C. Reeve
Format: Trade Paperback, 1520 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $21.95
Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon’s The Basic Works of Aristotle–constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years–has long been considered the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Selected Dialogues of Plato
The Benjamin Jowett Translation
Written by Plato
Introduction by Hayden Pelliccia
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $14.00
Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato have long been classics in their own right. In this volume, Professor Hayden Pelliccia has revised Jowett's renderings of five key dialogues, giving us a modern Plato faithful to both Jowett's best features and Plato's own masterly style.
Gathered here are many of Plato's liveliest and richest... Read more >
The Benjamin Jowett Translation
Written by Plato
Introduction by Hayden Pelliccia
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $14.00
Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato have long been classics in their own right. In this volume, Professor Hayden Pelliccia has revised Jowett's renderings of five key dialogues, giving us a modern Plato faithful to both Jowett's best features and Plato's own masterly style.
Gathered here are many of Plato's liveliest and richest... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Analects
Written by Confucius
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2001
Price: $19.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Confucius is one of the most humane, rational, and lucid of moral teachers, concerned not with arcane metaphysics but with practical issues of life and conduct. What is virtue? What sort of life is most conducive to happiness? How should the state be ruled? What is the proper... Read more >
Written by Confucius
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2001
Price: $19.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Confucius is one of the most humane, rational, and lucid of moral teachers, concerned not with arcane metaphysics but with practical issues of life and conduct. What is virtue? What sort of life is most conducive to happiness? How should the state be ruled? What is the proper... Read more >
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Symposium and Phaedrus
Written by Plato
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2001
Price: $19.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
It has been said that, after the Bible, Plato's dialogues are the most influential books in Western culture. And of the dialogues, the Symposium is the most delightful and accessible, requiring no special knowledge of ancient Greek philosophy or customs. Dramatizing a party in fifth-century B.C. Athens, the... Read more >
Written by Plato
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2001
Price: $19.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
It has been said that, after the Bible, Plato's dialogues are the most influential books in Western culture. And of the dialogues, the Symposium is the most delightful and accessible, requiring no special knowledge of ancient Greek philosophy or customs. Dramatizing a party in fifth-century B.C. Athens, the... Read more >
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