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A catalogue of Greek art covering the two millennia of its history includes not only the wistful ephebes sculpted in accordance with the classical canon, but also savage and primitive Minoan figurines, starkly stylized idols from the Cyclades, and…

Presents 150 examples of symbols and images from alchemy, astrology and other occult traditions.

This book brings together twenty articles giving a comprehensive view of the work of the Aristotelian commentators. ... The importance of the commentators is partly that they represent the thought and classroom teaching of the Aristotelian and…

"Archytas of Tarentum is one of the three most important philosophers in the Pythagorean tradition. He was a prominent mathematician, who gave the first solution to the famous problem of doubling the cube, an important music theorist, and the leader…