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Themistius' treatment of Books 5-8 of Aristotle's Physics shows this commentator's capacity to identify, isolate and discuss the core ideas in Aristotle's account of change, his theory of the continuum, and his doctrine of the unmoved mover. His paraphrase offered his ancient students, as they will now offer his modern readers, an opportunity to encounter central features of Aristotle's physical theory, synthesized and epitomized in a manner that has always marked Aristotelian exegesis but was raised to a new level by the innovative method of paraphrase pioneered by Themistius....

In April 1895, Oscar Wilde stood in the prisoner's dock of the Old Bailey, charged with "acts of gross indecency with another male person. These filthy practices, the prosecutor declared, posed a deadly threat to English society, "a sore which cannot fail in time to corrupt and taint it all." Wilde responded with a speech of legendary eloquence, defending love between men as a love "such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare." Electrified, the spectators in the courtroom burst into applause.

Although Wilde...

This companion to the Penguin translation by S.A. Handford of Sallust's account of the conspiracy of Catiline provides a useful introduction, notes on details of the translated text, a select bibliography, glossary, and list of ancient authors referred to in the book.

Plato's Meno is a dynamic and entertaining examination of the nature and origin of the kind of excellence displayed by successful Greek leaders. That such excellence existed was difficult to deny, but people expected to show it often disappointed, and others expected to know about it seemed confused. Though it depended on something like knowledge, it seemed impossible to pass on to others. Hence questions of social and political ethics also involve psychology and theory of knowledge. There is also an important focus on the nature of the learning process, which is itself illustrated by the...

Mit ihrer erstaunlichen Vielschichtigkeit und Ironie beeindrucken Petrons Satyrica noch heute Forscher wie Leser, doch ein Gesamtkommentar zu diesem bedeutenden Zeugnis der antiken Romanliteratur ist nach wie vor ein Forschungsdesiderat. Natalie Breitenstein legt hiermit den ersten vollstandigen Kommentar zur Anfangspartie der Satyrica vor (Kapitel 1-15). Unter Einbeziehung der modernen Forschungsliteratur behandelt sie alle textkritischen, sprachlich-stilistischen und inhaltlichen Aspekte des Textes. Die Einleitung bietet auerdem einen aktuellen Uberblick uber den...

Books XXIII and XXIV of Livy's "Ab Urbe Condita" deal with the events of the Second Punic War after Hannibal's victory at Canna. This useful "Macmillan" school edition, with Introduction, Notes, Maps and Indexes, is here reissued in the "Latin Texts" series of Bristol Classical Press.