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In dem hier in neuer deutscher Ubersetzung von Alberto Jori vorgelegten Traktat "Uber den Himmel" hat Aristoteles die in Griechenland seit den Anfangen der rationalen Reflexion uber die Physis entwickelten kosmologischen Ideen und Prinzipien kritisch neu durchdacht und eine originelle und organische Sichtweise des Kosmos formuliert, welche im Okzident uber mehr als ein Jahrtausend die Rolle eines kosmologischen Paradigmas einnahm. Die vier Bucher von De caelo - nachtraglich aus drei Lehrvortragen zusammengestellt - behandeln nicht ausschlielich Probleme kosmologischer Natur, so dass...

Through criticism and analysis of ancient traditions, Kahn reconstructs the pattern of Anaximander s thought using historical methods akin to the reconstructive techniques of comparative linguists."

A reprint of the Routledge edition of 1935.

Together these two dialogues contain Plato s most important work on poetry and beauty."

"Selections" seeks to provide an accurate and readable translation that will allow the reader to follow Aristotle's use of crucial technical terms and to grasp the details of his argument. Unlike anthologies that combine translations by many hands, this volume includes a fully integrated set of translations by a two-person team. The glossary--the most detailed in any edition--explains Aristotle's vocabulary and indicates the correspondences between Greek and English words. Brief notes supply alternative translations and elucidate difficult passages.

Charles Brittain's elegant new translation of Cicero's Academica makes available for the first time a readable and accurate translation into modern English of this complex yet crucial source of our knowledge of the epistemological debates between the skeptical Academics and the Stoics.

Brittain's masterly Introduction, generous notes, English-Latin-Greek Glossary, and Index further commend this edition to the attention of students of Hellenistic philosophy at all levels.

The most comprehensive collection of Neoplatonic writings available in English, this volume provides translations of the central texts of four major figures of the Neoplatonic tradition: Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus. The general Introduction gives an overview of the period and takes a brief but revealing look at the history of ancient philosophy from the viewpoint of the Neoplatonists. Historical background--essential for understanding these powerful, difficult, and sometimes obscure thinkers--is provided in extensive footnotes, which also include cross-references to other...

A model of the kind of text one needs for lecture courses: the translation is extremely readable and made even more accessible by intelligent printing decisions (on dividing the text, spacing for clarification, etc.); the notes are kept to a minimum but appear when they are really needed for comprehension and are truly informative. And the introduction admirably presents both basic information and a sense of current scholarly opinion. --S. G. Nugent, Princeton University

Contains the Poeticsand the first twelve chapters of the Rhetoric, Book III.

Lampooned in 406 B.C.E. in a blistering Aristophanic satire, Socrates was tried in 399 B.C.E. on a charge of corrupting the youth, convicted by a jury of about five hundred of his peers, and condemned to death. Glimpsed today through the extant writings of his contemporaries and near-contemporaries, he remains for us as compelling, enigmatic, and elusive a figure as Jesus or Buddha. Although present-day (like ancient Greek) opinion on the real Socrates diverges widely, six classic texts that any informed judgment of him must take into account appear together, for the first time, in this...

Martin Ferguson Smith's work on Lucretius is both well known and highly regarded. However, his 1969 translation of "De Rerum Natura"--long out of print--is virtually unknown. Readers will share our excitement in the discovery of this accurate and fluent prose rendering. For this edition, Professor Smith provides a revised translation, new Introduction, headnotes and bibliography.

A fascinating portrait of the Pythagorean tradition, including a substantial account of the Neo-Pythagorean revival, and ending with Johannes Kepler on the threshold of modernism.