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  • Life of Aesop the Philosopher
    Grammatiki A. Karla / David Konstan
    The Life of Aesop the Philosopher, an anonymous Greek literary work, presents one version of the novelistic biography of Aesop, which dates to the fourth to fifth century CE. In this volume, Grammatiki A. Karla offers an extended introduction to the Life of Aesop in general, the history of the textual tradition, and a new edition of the late antique version alongside David Kons...
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    43,99 €

  • The Origin of Sin
    David Konstan
    Where did the idea of sin arise from? In this meticulously argued book, David Konstan takes a close look at classical Greek and Roman texts, as well as the Bible and early Judaic and Christian writings, and argues that the fundamental idea of 'sin' arose in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, although this original meaning was obscured in later Jewish and Christian interpre...
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    38,16 €

  • Sexual Symmetry
    David Konstan
    'In the Greek romances,' writes David Konstan, 'sighs, tears, and suicide attempts are as characteristic of the male as of the female in distress; ruses, disguises, and outright violence in defense of one’s chastity are as much the part of the female as of the male.' Exploring how erotic love is represented in ancient amatory literature, Konstan points to the symmetry in the pa...
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    56,79 €

  • Aspasius
    Aspasius / David Konstan
    Until the launch of this series nearly twenty years ago, the 15,000 volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, written mainly between 200 and 600 AD, constituted the largest corpus of extant Greek philosophical writings not translated into English or other European languages. Aspasius’ commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics, of which six books have come down to us, i...
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    66,72 €

  • Simplicius
    David Konstan
    Book Six of Aristotle’s Physics, which concerns the continuum, shows Aristotle at his best. It contains his attack on atomism which forced subsequent Greek and Islamic atomists to reshape their views entirely. It also elaborates Zeno’s paradoxes of motion and the famous paradoxes of stopping and starting. This is the first translation into any modern language of Simplicius’ com...
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    67,05 €

  • Aspasius, Michael of Ephesus, Anonymous
    Aspasius / Michael Of Ephesus / David Konstan
    Aristotle devotes books 8-9 of the Nicomachean Ethics to friendship, distinguishing three kinds: a primary kind motivated by the other’s character; and other kinds motivated by utility or pleasure. He takes up Plato’s idea that one knows oneself better as reflected in another’s eyes, as providing one of the benefits of friendship, and he also sees true friendship as modelled on...
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    66,76 €

  • Before Forgiveness
    David Konstan
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    64,38 €

  • Hierocles the Stoic
    Ilaria L. E. Ramelli / Ilaria LERamelli / David Konstan
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    33,91 €

  • Heraclitus
    Heraclitus (of Ephesus ). / David Konstan / Donald A. Russell / Donald ARussell
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    22,31 €

  • Cyclops
    Euripides / David Konstan
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    24,11 €

  • Philodemus
    Clarence E. Glad / Clarence EGlad / David Konstan / Diskin Clay
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    22,20 €

  • Friendship in the Classical World
    David Konstan
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    58,16 €