Professor Dover's newest book is designed for those who are interested in the history of comedy as an art form but who are not necessarily familiar with the Greek language.The eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes are treated as representative of a...

Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon

Tutti i frammenti di Democrito, grande sistematore dell'atomismo antico, in una raccolta compilata dal filologo russo Salomon Luria durante il periodo dello stalinismo. Luria raddoppia per estensione la classica raccolta tedesca di Diels-Kranz (appena...

This revised edition includes ninety-five texts covering the period from 750 B.C. through the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 B.C. A new addenda and concordance bring the book completely up to date.

In 1976, Daniel Bell€™s historical work predicted a vastly different society developing—one that will rely on the “economics of information€ rather than the “economics of goods.€ Bell argued that the new society would not displace the older one but...

Exciting, hands-on approach to understanding fundamental underpinnings of modern arithmetic, algebra, geometry and number systems, by examining their origins in early Egyptian, Babylonian and Greek sources. Students can do division like the ancient...

An exploration of the paralells between the ends of the 19th and 20th centuries and their representations in art, literature and film, this book asks whether the approaching millenium signals a beginning or points grimly to an end, and whether the ends...

In a groundbreaking collaboration, and taking the great W.E.B. DuBois as their model, two of America's foremost African-American intellectuals address the dreams, fears, aspirations, and responsibilities of the black community--especially the black...