Mark Aurel (121 180 n. Chr.) war der sechzehnte römische Kaiser und einer der mächtigsten, aber a...

Zu seinen Lebzeiten und danach galt Platon, einer der bedeutendsten Philosophen aller Zeiten, als...

A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspir...

Addressing a marginalized era of Greek and Roman history, Taken at the Flood offers a compelling ...

Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Essentially an inqui...

'The god wanted everything to be good, marred by as little imperfection as possible.'Timaeus, one...

This book presents the first English translation to appear for over a hundred years of a key text...

'Aesop's fables are among the most familiar and best-loved stories in the world. Tales like 'The ...

'Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the sixteenth emperor of Rome-and by far the most powerful man in ...

Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading.Well-written s...

This book, the first ever biography of the father of philosophy, tracks Plato's life from his chi...

'A definitive new translation of Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesian War'

The Statesman is Plato's neglected political work, but it is crucial for an understanding of the ...

This new translation is based on the revised Oxford Text of Plato and makes accessible the dialog...

The first English-language biography of the well-known traditionalist metaphysican René Guénon, i...

A readable, authoritative and fascinating history of hypnosis

Starting with the most meagre resources, Philip made his kingdom the greatest power in EuropeThe ...

A vivid retelling of the Greek myths by 2 acclaimed scholars. The heroism, humour, mystery, sensu...

In these four dialogues Plato considers virtue and its definition. Charmides, Laches,and Lysisinv...

Translation of: Theological principles of arithmetic.

Aware of these myths, Robin Waterfield has examined the actual Greek sources and presents here a ...

Covering roughly eight centuries from the age of Homer (8th century BC) to the end of the Helleni...

Covering roughly eight centuries from the age of Homer (8th century BC) to the end of the Helleni...

For many centuries, Aristotle's Physics was the essential starting point for anyone who wished to...

Alexander the Great conquers the New York Times best-selling Who Was...? series!When Alexander wa...

Orestes and Other Plays provides new translations of Ion, Orestes, The Phoenician Women and The S...

Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander`I treat ...

After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring hi...

A gripping account of one of the great forgotten wars of history, revealing how Alexander the Gre...

A fascinating, accessible, and up-to-date history of the Ancient Greeks. Covering the Archaic, Cl...

Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the f...

In The Expedition of Cyrus, Xenophon told how, in 401 B.C., a band of Greek mercenaries traveled ...

This is the story of one of the great forgotten wars of history - which led to the division of on...

Alexander * Demosthenes* Phocion *Eumenes*Demetrius*Pyrrhus* Agis and Cleomenes*Aratus*Philopoeme...

The struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in Gorgias - and to his read...

The Expedition of Cyrus tells the story of the epic march of the Ten Thousand, an army recruited ...

The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was ...

These first philosophers paved the way for the work of Plato and Aristotle - and hence for the wh...

Alcestis*Heracles*Children of Heracles* CyclopsEuripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendsh...

Socrates' trial and death together form an iconic moment in Western civilization. The picture we ...

It is 401 BC. After an epic battle in Persia, Xenophon is elected general of the defeated Greek a...

As a cobbler in Gorlitz, Jacob Boehme (1575-1624) came into contact with many great thinkers who ...

Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father...

'no one else in our times has attempted to write a universal history'Polybius' ambitious goal was...

In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in...

Addressing a marginalized era of Greek and Roman history, Taken at the Flood offers a compelling ...

For all men are persuaded by considerations of where their interest lies...Aristotle's Art of Rhe...

'Even if everyone else succumbs to slavery, we must still fight for our freedom.'Admired by many ...