Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle age How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Publishing in four seasonal tranches over a year, Little...

This book offers a survey of the teachings of, and relations between, four leading figures in third-century Platonism: Longinus, Plotinus, Porphyry and lamblichus. It documents and explains the coalescence of Aristotelian and Platonic elements in the...

Thomas Henri Martin. -- Reprint Of The 1841 Ed. Published By Ladrange, Paris. Texte Et Traduction Du Timée: P. [53]-244 Bis (2d Group) Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [385]-427 (3d Group)

Iamblichus (245-325), successor to Plotinus and Porphyry, brought a new religiosity to Neoplatonism. His theory of the soul is at the heart of his philosophical system. For Iamblichus, the human soul is so far inferior to the divine that its salvation...

A survey of how Greek historians explained the conditions of a state's success and the dangers of power

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