Penguin Classics, 2003 By mid-5th century BC, Athens was governed by democratic rule and power turned upon the ability of the citizen to command the attention of the people, and to sway the crowds of the assembly. It was the Sophists who understood the art of...
Edinburgh University Press, 2004 John Dillon’s exploration of Athenian society vividly brings to life how the ancient Greeks behaved towards each other. How did husbands treat their wives and parents their children? What were the rights enjoyed, and the perils...
Hackett, 2004 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...
Oxford University Press, 2005 This is the first book exclusively devoted to an in-depth study of the various directions in philosophy taken by Plato’s followers in the first 70 years or so following his death in 347 BC – generally known as ‘The Old...
Cambridge University Press, 2019 How does a school of thought, in the area of philosophy, or indeed of religion, from roots that may be initially open-ended and largely informal, come to take on the features that later mark it out as distinctive, and even exclusive?...
