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Plato's Politics of Passion: Erôs, Thumos, and Socratic Self-Knowledge in the Charmides, Republic, and Symposium

An original reading of three Platonic dialogues concerned with the soul, tyranny, self-knowledge, an...

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Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence

The god Prometheus stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him...

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Asklepios: Archetypal Image of the Physician's Existence

To the physicians of classical antiquity, Asklepios was the ideal of their existence as healers. In...

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Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter

The Sanctuary of Eleusis near Athens was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two...

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Zeus and Hera: Archetypal Image of Father, Husband, and Wife

What did Zeus mean to the Greeks of antiquity? Who was Hera, archetypally united with Zeus as if the...

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Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life

No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and ritual practices of antiquity a...

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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 suppo...

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Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity

The Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the p...

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The Odyssey

With his Odyssey, best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn has created a momentous new w...

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Israel: What Went Wrong?

Professor Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv and served in the Israel Defence Fo...

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Keynes for Our Times

From John Maynard Keynes’s foremost biographer, an illuminating look at how the economist’s ethical...

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Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and The Beatles Changed Each Other and the World

The first book to tell the full story of the deep and lasting connection between the two most enduri...

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The Organization of the Mind: Lessons from Kant and Freud

As a prominent figure of the 18th century Enlightenment, Kant advocated faith in reason and in the p...

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Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Controversial World War II General

The definitive biography of Tojo Hideki, the controversial general who redefined military leader...

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Radicals: The Working Classes and the Making of Modern Britain

An authoritative and original history of the working classes and the British Left The political Left...

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