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Västerländsk filosofi: antiken, till ca 500 e.Kr.
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Topics in Stoicism.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt’s care. He …
Natural causes.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and …
Inductive zoology.In History of Animals Aristotle analyzes “differences”—in parts, activities, modes of life, and character—across the animal kingdom, in preparation for …
Government of state and self.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato …
Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45–120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, …
Four rhetoricians confronting Macedonian dominance.This volume collects the speeches of four orators involved in the ill-fated resistance of Athens to the power of Philip and …
Examined lives.Diogenes Laertius, author of a work on Greek philosophy, lived probably in the earlier half of the third century, his ancestry and birthplace being unknown. He was …
The definitive English edition of the “Father of Medicine.”The medical treatises collected under Hippocrates’ name are essential sources of information about the practice of …
Peripatetic works on the human body and soul.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He …