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Gorgias — Plato

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Notes On Ancient Britain And The Britons (1858) — William Barnes

Notes On Ancient Britain And The Britons (1858)

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

A Treatise On The Roman Senate In Two Parts (1748) — Conyers Middleton

A Treatise On The Roman Senate In Two Parts (1748)

Conyers Middleton

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

The Politics — Aristotle

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

The Satyricon — Petronius Arbiter

Petronius Arbiter

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

M Tully Ciceroæs Five Books of Tusculan Disputations — Marcus Tullius Cicero

M Tully Ciceroæs Five Books of Tusculan Disputations

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

Meditations — Marco Aurelio (Emperador de Roma)

Marco Aurelio (Emperador de Roma)

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

Conversations of Socrates — Xenophon

Conversations of Socrates

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

Against the Ethicists (Adversus Mathematicos XI) — Sextus (Empiricus)

Against the Ethicists (Adversus Mathematicos XI)

Sextus (Empiricus)

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

On the Good Life — Marcus Tullius Cicero

On the Good Life

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

The Cynic Philosophers From Diogenes to Julian — Various

The Cynic Philosophers From Diogenes to Julian

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

De Anima (On the Soul) — Aristotle

De Anima (On the Soul)

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

Organ Grinder A Classical Education Gone Astray — Alan Fishbone

Organ Grinder A Classical Education Gone Astray

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

The Histories — Herodotus

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

Seneca, Epistulae Morales Book 2 A Commentary with Text, Translation, and Introduction — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Seneca, Epistulae Morales Book 2 A Commentary with Text, Translation, and Introduction

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

The Greek Sophists — John Dillon

The Greek Sophists

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

Dialogues and Essays — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Dialogues and Essays

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

The Teachings of a Stoic Selected Discourses and the Encheiridion — Epictetus

The Teachings of a Stoic Selected Discourses and the Encheiridion

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

Enquiry Into Plants, Volume II: Books 6-9. on Odours. Weather Signs — Theophrastus

Enquiry Into Plants, Volume II: Books 6-9. on Odours. Weather Signs

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

Aristotle’s De Motu Animalium Text with Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays — Aristoteles

Aristotle’s De Motu Animalium Text with Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

The History of Sexuality: 2 The Use of Pleasure — Michel Foucault

The History of Sexuality: 2 The Use of Pleasure

Michel Foucault

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction — Gillian Clark

Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

Discourses and Selected Writings — Epictetus

Discourses and Selected Writings

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

How to Be a Stoic Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life — Massimo Pigliucci

How to Be a Stoic Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life

Massimo Pigliucci

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Essays

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