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Form and good in Plato's Eleatic dialogues: the Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman
Plato's four dialogues are treated here for the first time as a continuous argument. In Dorter's view, Plato re-examines the theory of forms propounded in his earlier dialogues and reaffirms them, not as perfectly robust tools in the service of human…
Valley of the Kings
Reconstructs the events of the New Kingdom that led to the building of the royal tombs to provide an understanding of the civilization and culture of ancient Egypt, the sequence of its dynasties, and its famous pharaohs.
Plotinus on Eudaimonia: A Commentary on Ennead I. 4
"This is the first full-length commentary on Plotinus' Ennead I.4 (46), a work written at a late stage in Plotinus' life when he was suffering from an illness that was shortly to prove fatal. The main concern of Ennead I.4 (46) is the good man and…
The Music of Pythagoras: how an ancient brotherhood cracked the code of the universe and lit the path from antiquity to outer space
Describes the legacy of Pythagoras, the ancient Greek mathematician and mystic who contemplated the order and symmetry behind musical beauty, discussing Platonists, string theory, and Bertrand Russell.
"Pythagoras's influence on the ideas, and…
"Pythagoras's influence on the ideas, and…