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The Cave and the Light
Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Arthur Herman has now written the definitive sequel to his New York Times bestseller, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, and extends the themes of the book—which sold half a million copies worldwide—back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the age of the Internet. The Cave and the Light...
Ancient Models of Mind
Studies in Human and Divine Rationality
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
How does God think? How, ideally, does a human mind function? Must a gap remain between these two paradigms of rationality? Such questions exercised the greatest ancient philosophers, including those featured in this book: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Plotinus. This volume encompasses...
by Malcolm Heath
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
What is poetry? Why do human beings produce and consume it? What effects does it have on them? Can it give them insight into truth, or is it dangerously misleading? This book is a wide-ranging study of the very varied answers which ancient philosophers gave to such questions. An extended discussion...
From Protagoras to Aristotle
Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
This is a collection of the late Heda Segvic's papers in ancient moral philosophy. At the time of her death at age forty-five in 2003, Segvic had already established herself as an important figure in ancient philosophy, making bold new arguments about the nature of Socratic intellectualism and the...
by Fiona Hobden
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
The symposion was a key cultural phenomenon in ancient Greece. This book investigates its place in ancient Greek society and thought by exploring the rhetorical dynamics of its representations in literature and art. Across genres, individual Greeks constructed visions of the party and its performances...
by Mordechai Feingold, Jed Z Buchwald
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
Isaac Newton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man's death, unleashed a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book presents a drastically revised timeline for ancient civilizations, contracting Greek history by five hundred years and Egypt's...
Lost Masters
Rediscovering the Mysticism of the Ancient Greek Philosophers
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Ashrams in Europe twenty-five hundred years ago? Greek philosophers studying in India? Meditation classes in ancient Rome? It sounds unbelievable, but it’s historically true. Alexander the Great had an Indian guru. Pythagoras, Empedocles, and Plotinus all encouraged their students to meditate. Apollonius,...
Enraged
Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
An examination of remedies for violent rage rediscovered in ancient Greek myths Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer’s Iliad, Euripides’ Hecuba, and Sophocles’ Ajax show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and...
Redefining Ancient Orphism
A Study in Greek Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This book examines the fragmentary and contradictory evidence for Orpheus as the author of rites and poems to redefine Orphism as a label applied polemically to extra-ordinary religious phenomena. Replacing older models of an Orphic religion, this richer and more complex model provides insight into...
Ancient Greece
From the Archaic Period to the Death of Alexander the Great
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
From Archaic times to the reign of Alexander the Great, Greek unity was tenuous, yet Ancient Greece was a place where culture flourished and intellectual achievement knew no bounds. Ancient Greek ideas on philosophy, politics, science, and the arts anticipate many of our own, and in some ways, remain...
Wandering Greeks
The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and...
Forbidden History
Prehistoric Technologies, Extraterrestrial Intervention, and the Suppressed Origins of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
Challenges the scientific theories on the establishment of civilization and technology
• Contains 42 essays by 17 key thinkers in the fields of alternative science and history, including Christopher Dunn, Frank Joseph, Will Hart, Rand Flem-Ath, and Moira Timmes
• Edited by Atlantis...
by Seth Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This is an accessible and up-to-date account of the Jews during the millennium following Alexander the Great's conquest of the East. Unusually, it acknowledges the problems involved in constructing a narrative from fragmentary yet complex evidence and is, implicitly, an exploration of how this might...
The Keramion, Lost and Found
A Journey to the Face of God
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
**“Vivid historical writing . . . a fascinating and factual defense for the authenticity of the famous Shroud” (**Christian Newswire).
The Shroud of Turin, the traditional burial cloth of Jesus Christ, is either authentic or not. The Keramion, Lost and Found provides new answers to settle...