Here is the first survey of the surviving evidence for the growth, development, and influence of the Neoplatonist allegorical reading of the Iliad and Odyssey. Professor Lamberton argues that this...

The religious imagination of the Greeks, Robert Garland observes, was populated by divine beings whose goodwill could not be counted upon, and worshipers faced a heavy burden of choice among...

This collection of essays highlights Ancient, Byzantine and Medieval developments in the discussion of scientific method and argument in the comment(arie)s on Aristotle s "Posterior Analytics" and...

The so-called eighth Stromateus ('liber logicus') by Clement of Alexandria (d. before 221 C.E.) is an understudied source for ancient philosophy, particularly the tradition of the Aristotelian...

This book argues that Aristotle offers us a consistent theory of definition, according to which a particular type of definition - one which states the formal cause of a simple item - is fundamental...

Against the background of age-old Greek wisdom, Epicurus' advice to 'live unnoticed' (lathe biosas) was particularly provocative and scandalous. Why, after all, would an unknown Greek soldier in...

A translation of the 3-volume work, Notes de lexicographie neo-testamentaire, by the premier biblical exegete Ceslas Spicq, the Theological Lexicon of the New Testament will surely take its place...

Hardcover. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. First edition (3,000 printed). Quarto, ~9 ¾” w x 12” h, 148pp. Beige cloth, brown dust jacket with painting, illustrated flyleaves. Jacket intact with...

This work constitutes a rebuttal to charges made against the Bolsheviks by Karl Kautsky in 1919. Trotsky's defense of Bolshevism is devoted to two basic questions. One is the question of the...

Dieser bisher unveroffentlichte Briefwechsel zwischen Ernst Junger und Martin Heidegger geht hervor aus Gesprachen der Nachkriegszeit uber ein grossangelegtes Zeitschriften-Projekt, an dem neben...

In this book, Natasha Staller closely examines for the first time the complex and intricate dialogue between Picasso and the multiple cultures of his early life. Staller argues that to a degree never...

Describes the social conditions, politics, intellectual life, art, music, architecture, literature, theater, and design of turn-of-the-century Vienna

Copiously illustrated. Large French Flaps. 120p. Measures 9.25x11 inches. Interview with the architect and a photographic essay by Helene Binet.