Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The ten golden rules	Michael A. Soupios	"How the wisdom of ancient Greek philosophers can be applied to modern problems and concerns to create a more spiritual existence"--Provided by publisher.	OL13683605W
The Cambridge companion to Socrates	Donald R. Morrison	"The Cambridge Companion to Socrates is a collection of essays providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher. Because Socrates himself wrote nothing, our evidence com…	OL15415140W
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
Pleasure in ancient Greek philosophy	David Wolfsdorf	"The Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy series provides concise books, written by major scholars and accessible to non-specialists, on important themes in ancient philosophy that remain of philosophica…	OL16695126W
Politische Geschichte (Provinzen und Randvölker: Mesopotamien, Armenien, Iran, Südarabien, Rom und …	Hildegard Temporini,Wolfgang Haase	2 volumes : 25 cm	OL18820010W
Light from the Gentiles	Abraham J. Malherbe	Rather than viewing the Graeco-Roman world as the "background" against which early Christian texts should be read, Abraham J. Malherbe saw the ancient Mediterranean world as a rich ecology of diverse…	OL20957469W
Socrates' children	Peter Kreeft	"How is this history of philosophy different from all others? 1. It's neighter very long (like Copleston's twelve-volumet tome, which is a clear and hepful reference work but pretty dull reading) nor…	OL22314341W
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
Aristotle for Everybody	Mortimer J. Adler	"Adler traces 'in the simplest language and with occasional modern analogues, the logic and growth of Aristotle's basic doctrines.'" Publ Wkly "Aristotle taught logic to Alexander the Great and, by v…	OL487446W
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
Moralia	Plutarch	The Moralia of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They provide insights into Roman and Greek life, but often are also…	OL723491W
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