Theological Tractates/The Consolation of Philosophy
10 best books like Theological Tractates/The Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius): The Divine Comedy, Civil War, Homer: Iliad II, Books 13-24 (Loeb Classical Library, #171), Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica, Pagans and Christians, The Satyricon and The Apocolocyntosis, Virgil, Vol 2: Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana, Discourses, Books 1-2, Metamorphoses: Volume I, Books I-VIII, Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy
| Author | Dante Alighieri |
| ISBN | 0679433139 |
The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory...
| Author | Lucan |
| ISBN | 0192839497 |
Lucan's epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, unfinished at the time of his death, stands beside the poems of Virgil and Ovid in the first rank of Latin epic. This newly annotated, free verse translation conveys the full force of Lucan's writing and his grimly realistic view of the subject....
| Author | Homer |
| ISBN | 0674995805 |
Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homer's stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of Achilles, "the best of the Achaeans," over a grave insult to his personal honor and relates its tragic result--a chain...
| Author | Horace |
| ISBN | 0674992148 |
In the two books of "Satires" Horace is a moderate social critic and commentator; the two books of "Epistles" are more intimate and polished, the second book being literary criticism as is also the "Ars Poetica." The "Epodes" in various (mostly iambic) metres are akin to the 'discourses' (as Horace...
| Author | Robin Lane Fox |
| ISBN | 0670808482 |
Fox recreates the period from the 2nd to the 4th century, when the Olympians lost their dominion and Christianity, with Constantine's conversion, triumphed in the Mediterranean world.
CONTENTS
List of Maps
Preface
Pagans & Christians
Pagans & their cities
Pagan...
| Author | Petronius |
| ISBN | 0140444890 |
Perhaps the strangest and most strikingly modern work to survive from the ancient world, The Satyricon relates the hilarious mock epic adventures of the impotent Encolpius, and his struggle to regain virility. Here Petronius brilliantly brings to life the courtesans, legacy-hunters, pompous...
| Author | Virgil |
| ISBN | 0674995864 |
Virgil, Volume Ii : Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana (Loeb Classical Library, No 64) Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life....
| Author | Epictetus |
| ISBN | 0674991451 |
I find it near to impossible to rate a work of antiquity as I might try to rank a contemporary work. How does one choose subtraction over addition in ranking an artifact of historical interest? The Discourses of Epictetus possess such a special status and have greater merit at the start than contemporary...
The Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus. Comprising fifteen books and over 250 myths, the poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework.
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Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy
| Author | Christopher Phillips |
Christopher Phillips is a man on a mission: to revive the love of questions that Socrates inspired long ago in ancient Athens. "Like a Johnny Appleseed with a master's degree, Phillips has gallivanted back and forth across America, to cafés and coffee shops, senior centers, assisted-living complexes,...
| Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| ISBN | 0674991567 |
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence...
Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo. Phaedrus.
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0674990404 |
Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time after Socrates' execution is probable; that later he...
