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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Sexual secrets	Penny Slinger,Nik Douglas	This is the #1 bestselling title on the sexual mysteries of the East. Sexual Secrets was the first book to explore the Eastern path of love and mysticism, bringing together more than a thousand years…	OL108054W
Introduction to Aristotle		A collection of writings by Greek philosopher Aristotle, thought to be lecture notes for classes he taught at the Lyceum, including the complete texts of the "Posterior Analytics," "De Anima," "Nicho…	OL151601W
Epicurus and the Epicurean tradition	Jeffrey Fish	"Epicureanism after the generation of its founders has been characterised as dogmatic, uncreative and static. But this volume brings together work from leading classicists and philosophers that demon…	OL15902097W
On the most ancient wisdom of the Italians	Giambattista Vico	"This volume comprises a new critical edition and translation of Giambattista Vico's challenging and provoking early work On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians. The Latin edition faithfully repr…	OL15932574W
Pursuits of wisdom	Cooper, John M.	This is a major reinterpretation of ancient philosophy that recovers the long Greek and Roman tradition of philosophy as a complete way of life--and not simply an intellectual discipline. Distinguish…	OL16509635W
Politische Geschichte (Provinzen und Randvölker: Mesopotamien, Armenien, Iran, Südarabien, Rom und …	Hildegard Temporini,Wolfgang Haase	2 volumes : 25 cm	OL18820010W
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle on Ethics	Gerard Hughes	"Aristotle's Nichomachaean Ethics is one of the most important and central texts in the history of Western philosophy. It lies at the heart of contemporary moral theory and is essential to understand…	OL2067086W
Moral education for women in the pastoral and Pythagorean letters	Annette Bourland Huizenga	"Huizenga examines the Greco-Roman moral-philosophical 'curriculum' for women by comparing these two epistolary collections. The analysis is organized around four elements: textual resources, teacher…	OL20956188W
Philosophy for Life	Jules Evans	Jules Evans explains how philosophy quite literally saved his life, and shows how we can make use of it everyday in our own. He imagines his dream school, with a rowdy faculty that includes 15 of the…	OL21048402W
Lives of the Stoics	Ryan Holiday,Stephen Hanselman	Nearly 2,300 years after a ruined merchant named Zeno first established a school on the Stoa Poikile of Athens, Stoicism has found a new audience among those who seek greatness, from athletes to poli…	OL21690596W
Friends Hold All Things in Common	Kathy Eden	"Erasmus' Adages - a vast collection of the proverbial wisdom of Greek and Roman antiquity - was published in 1508 and became one of the most influential works of the Renaissance. It also marked a tu…	OL3285247W
Spectacles of truth in classical Greek philosophy	Andrea Wilson Nightingale	In an effort to conceptualize and legitimize theoretical philosophy, the Greek philosophers turned to a venerable cultural practice: theoria (state pilgrimage). In this traditional practice, an indiv…	OL3745948W
Théodicée plotinienne, théodicée gnostique	O'Brien, Denis	Summary also in English.	OL4050824W
Γοργίας	Πλάτων	There is a well-known saying that the whole of Western Philosophy is footnotes of Plato. This is because his writings have set the schema that philosophy can be said to have followed ever since. Foll…	OL51785W
Plato and Parmenides	Francis MacDonald 1874-1943 Cornford,Πλάτων,Francis MacDonald Cornford,Francis Macdonald Cornford,Francis MacDonald Cornford	251 pages	OL51910W
Plutarch on Sparta	Plutarch	Plutarch here provides a fascinating account of the everyday lives and customs of the Spartan people, the famous warriors who gave their name to a way of life. A life of constant and rigorous trainin…	OL723337W
Nicomachean Ethics	Hye-Kyung Kim,Aristotle,J. A. Smith,Robert C. Bartlett,Joe Sachs,Susan D. Collins,L H. G. ed Greenwood	An detailed examination of what the best life might be for human beings. In order to anwer this question, Aristotle finds he also has to examine what virtue itself is and all of the various virtues …	OL8273964W
Aristotle on Truth	Paolo Crivelli	Aristotle's theory of truth, which has been the most influential account of the concept of truth from Antiquity onwards, spans several areas of philosophy: philosophy of language, logic, ontology, an…	OL8306670W
Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle (Agora Editions (Cornell University Press).)	Alfarabi	"This reissue of the 1969 Cornell edition of Alfarabi's Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle contains Muhsin Mahdi's substantial original introduction and a new foreword by Charles E. Butterworth and Th…	OL8382288W
Selections	Philo of Alexandria	I cherubini -- I sacrifici di Abele e di Caino -- Il malvagio tende a sopraffare il buono -- La posterità di Caino -- I giganti --- L'immutabilità di Dio.	OL962020W