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Commentary on Plotinus. Volume I: Ennead I

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 102)

A preeminent Renaissance philosopher on the founder of NeoplatonismMarsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance and is generally recognized as the greatest authority on ancient Platonism before modern times. Among his greatest accomplishments as a scholar was his 1492 Latin translation ...

Being reasonable

the case for a misunderstood virtue

A leading philosopher explores what it means to be reasonable-and why it matters for the well-being of our society. Reasonableness plays many roles in our lives. In Anglo-American law, it is the yardstick for a wide range of behavior-the "reasonable-person standard" governs everything from contract ...

What God kept for himself

atheism, sodomy, and radical dissent in Renaissance Italy

A revelatory account of sexual nonconformity and radical religious dissent in Renaissance Italy, drawing on never-before-studied Inquisition trials. Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, a series of highly controversial Inquisition trials took place throughout the Italian peninsula. The defendants were all accused of the same ...

The sentinel state

surveillance and the survival of dictatorship in China

Countering recent hype around technology, a leading expert argues that the endurance of dictatorship in China owes less to facial recognition AI and GPS tracking than to the human resources of the Leninist surveillance state. China watchers long argued that economic liberalization and prosperity would ...

Hubris

Pericles, the Parthenon, and the invention of Athens

A new perspective on ancient Athens at the height of its powers, reinterpreting the city's supposed "Golden Age" as a period of ruinous culture wars. The age of Pericles, in the fifth century BC, is often described as the Golden Age of Athens. The ...

The rise and fall of rational control

the history of modern political philosophy

A renowned scholar traces the evolution of modern political philosophy. The Rise and Fall of Rational Control is a bold interpretation of centuries of intellectual revolutions. Based on Harvey C. Mansfield's legendary Harvard course, taught for decades to rapt classrooms, this volume is both ...

Mother of the world

the remarkable history of Turkmenistan

Reclaiming Turkmenistan from the margins of global attention, Hein offers a lively history of the 'Mother of the World' and its people. These days, it's rare for news items to come out of Turkmenistan. It can be easy for us to assume that the ...

The four heavens

a new history of the ancient Maya

From the world-leading expert on the Maya, a monumental history of a flourishing civilization across three millennia The Four Heavens brings to life the cultural and visual splendor of the ancient Maya, drawing on the oldest indigenous texts of the Americas and the latest archaeological ...

Yesterday

the United Kingdom from thatcher to Covid

The first major account of this transformative period in the history of Great Britain Between 1990 and 2020, the United Kingdom experienced tension between unparalleled social change and a pragmatic political culture which sought continuity, compromise and gradualism. Thatcher's legacy was slowly digested, Blair ...

Culpa y castigo en «Derecho y Literatura»

Cervantes, Dostoievski y Kafka

Este trabajo es un intento de poner en relación dos de los temas jurídicos más relevantes: la culpa y el castigo, analizándolos en términos generales, así como, en concreto, en su proyección en la Literatura Universal, especialmente en la obra de tres escritores que destacan ...

The future that was

a history of Third World feminism against authoritarianism

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present Beginning in the 1970s, women of the decolonizing world offered new visions of liberation that centered the ideas and lives of women ...

Venice and the Mongols

the Eurasian exchange that transformed the medieval world

A global history of commercial and cultural exchange between two great powers of the medieval age In the mid-thirteenth century, Europe was shaken by the Mongol invasions. Realizing the immense potential for accessing remote markets in the East, Venetian merchants, diplomats, and seafarers established far-flung ...

How to be stoic

an ancient guide to keeping calm

An inviting new translation of essential selections from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, distilling the timeless wisdom of one of Stoicism's most influential works How do you keep calm when the world seems to be falling apart around you? When Marcus Aurelius was emperor, the ...

How to live

an ancient guide to a happy life

A vivid new translation in which the Stoic philosopher argues that virtue is the only path to contentment Why are so many people unhappy when happiness can be attained by anyone who simply lives virtuously? That question prompted Seneca, the great Stoic philosopher of the ...

How to travel

an ancient guide for the modern tourist

A transporting anthology of ancient Greek and Roman travel writings that capture the thrill of exploration and discovery-from Europe to the Holy Land and Egypt to India At long last, a travel guide to the ancient world for the modern tourist-written by the ancients themselves ...

Ancient Christianities

the first five hundred years

How, over the course of five centuries, one particular god and one particular Christianity came to dominate late Roman imperial politics and piety The ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods. For centuries, a practical religious pluralism prevailed. How, then, did one particular god come to dominate ...

Pantheon

the Romans : an introductory guide to ancient Roman religion

Enter through the Gates of Ancient Rome to meet the Roman Pantheon! Explore the deities, the beliefs, and the sacred landscape that birthed not just a city but also an empire. Ancient Rome was known as the 'City of a Thousand Gods' and was believed ...

Drax of Drax Hall

how one British family got rich (and stayed rich) from sugar and slavery

'A damning reminder that the ghosts of empire are not distant - they are living, breathing and, in some cases, still collecting rent' - The Observer 'Eloquently reminds us that history is never truly past' - The New Yorker 'A family story straight out of Game of Thrones ...

Osiris

raising the Djed Pillar

Dip below the Nile's surface to the realm of ancient Egypt's green-faced God of life, death, and rebirth. Known to the Greeks as Osiris, Wesir is one of ancient Egypt's most enduring deities, worshipped from at least the Old Kingdom, alongside his ...

Greek and Roman Coins in the Athenian Agora

More than 75,000 coins have been found during excavations at the Agora, many minted in the city but others brought from Athens's far-flung commercial contacts. Together they are a testament to the city's broad regional influence, and they help trace the political ...