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Ancient Forgiveness: Classical, Judaic, and Christian

Product Description: In this book, eminent scholars of classical antiquity and ancient and medieval Judaism and Christianity explore the nature and place of forgiveness in the pre-modern Western world. They discuss whether the concept of forgiveness, as it is often understood today, was absent, or at all events more restricted in scope than has been commonly supposed, and what related ideas (such as clemency or reconciliation) may have taken the place of forgiveness...read more

By Charles L. Griswold (editor) and David Konstan (editor)

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9780521119481 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 29, 2011, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: In this book, eminent scholars of classical antiquity and ancient and medieval Judaism and Christianity explore the nature and place of forgiveness in the pre-modern Western world.

Aspasius, Anonymous, Michael of Ephesus: On Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics 8-9

By David Konstan (trans) and Michael of Ephesus

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9781780939100 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 10, 2014), cover price $39.95

Aspasius - on Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics 1-4, 7-8

By David Konstan (trans)

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9781472558138 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 10, 2014, cover price $39.95

Beauty: The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea

By David Konstan

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9780199927265 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 2, 2015, cover price $29.95

Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea

Product Description: In this book, David Konstan argues that the modern concept of interpersonal forgiveness, in the full sense of the term, did not exist in ancient Greece and Rome. Even more startlingly, it is not fully present in the Hebrew Bible, nor again in the New Testament, or in the early Jewish and Christian commentaries on the Holy Scriptures...read more

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9781107680203 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2012), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: In this book, David Konstan argues that the modern concept of interpersonal forgiveness, in the full sense of the term, did not exist in ancient Greece and Rome.

The Birth of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486-280

By Jeffrey Henderson (trans), David Konstan (trans), Ralph Rosen (trans), Jeffrey Rusten (editor) and Niall W. Slater (trans)

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9780801894480 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, March 31, 2011, cover price $110.00

Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks

Product Description: This ground-breaking book applies trauma studies to the drama and literature of the ancient Greeks. Diverse essays explore how the Greeks responded to war and if what we now term "combat trauma," "post-traumatic stress," or "combat stress injury" can be discerned in ancient Greek culture...read more

By David Konstan (editor)

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9781137398857 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 11, 2014, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This ground-breaking book applies trauma studies to the drama and literature of the ancient Greeks.

The Complete Tragedies: Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, Agamemnon

By David Konstan (trans)

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9780226013602 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 19, 2016, cover price $45.00

Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue

Product Description: This collection of original essays examines innovations in both the theory and practice of classical philology. The chapters address interdisciplinary methods in a variety of ways. Some apply theoretical insights derived from other disciplines, such as folklore studies, performance theory, feminist criticism, and the like, to classical texts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Caroline Eades (contributor), Thomas M. Falkner (editor), Nancy Felson (editor), David Konstan (editor) and John Peradotto (editor)

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9780847697335 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, December 1, 1999, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: This collection of original essays examines innovations in both the theory and practice of classical philology.

Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue : Essays in Honor of John J. Peradotto

By Thomas M. Falkner (editor), Nancy Felson (editor), David Konstan (editor) and John Peradotto (editor)

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9780847697328 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, December 1, 1999, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This collection of original essays examines innovations in both the theory and practice of classical philology.

The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature

Product Description: It is generally assumed that whatever else has changed about the human condition since the dawn of civilization, basic human emotions - love, fear, anger, envy, shame - have remained constant. David Konstan, however, argues that the emotions of the ancient Greeks were in some significant respects different from our own, and that recognizing these differences is important to understanding ancient Greek literature and culture...read more

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9780802095589 | Univ of Toronto Pr, December 21, 2007, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: It is generally assumed that whatever else has changed about the human condition since the dawn of civilization, basic human emotions - love, fear, anger, envy, shame - have remained constant.

The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle And Greek Literature

By David Konstan

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9780802091031 | Univ of Toronto Pr, April 30, 2006, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: It is generally assumed that whatever else has changed about the human condition since the dawn of civilization, basic human emotions - love, fear, anger, envy, shame - have remained constant.

Envy, Spite and Jealousy: The Rivalrous Emotions in Ancient Greece

Product Description: Classical Greece was permeated by a spirit of rivalry. Games and sports, theatrical performances, courtroom trials, recitation of poetry, canvassing for public office, war itself -- all aspects of life were informed by a competitive ethos...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Konstan (editor) and N. Keith Rutter (editor)

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9780748616039 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $200.00 | About this edition: Classical Greece was permeated by a spirit of rivalry.

Friendship in the Classical World

This book is a history of friendship in Greece and Rome, from the warrior society of the Homeric epics to the time of the Christian Roman Empire. It demonstrates how ancient friendship resembles modern conceptions, and how it evolves in different social contexts. The book sheds new light on such questions as friendship and democracy, the importance of friends in government and in philosophical communities, women's friendships, and the transformation of friendship under the influence of Christian ideas of brotherhood. (view table of contents)

By David Konstan

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9780521454025 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $115.00

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9780521459983 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: This book is a history of friendship in Greece and Rome, from the warrior society of the Homeric epics to the time of the Christian Roman Empire.

Greek and Roman Consolations: Eight Studies of a Tradition and Its Afterlife

By Peter Adamson (contributor), Han Baltussen (editor), George Boys-stones (contributor), James H. K. O. Chong-Gossard (contributor) and David Konstan (contributor)

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9781905125562 | Classical Pr of Wales, February 4, 2013, cover price $95.00

Greek Comedy and Ideology

Product Description: In comedy, happy endings resolve real-world conflicts. These conflicts, in turn, leave their mark on the texts in the form of gaps in plot and inconsistencies of characterization. Greek Comedy and Ideology analyzes how the structure of ancient Greek comedy betrays and responds to cultural tensions in the society of the classical city-state...read more

By David Konstan

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9780195092943 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 6, 1995, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: In comedy, happy endings resolve real-world conflicts.

Greeks on Greekness: Viewing the Greek Past Under the Roman Empire

Product Description: Karl Marx observed that "just when people seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves..., they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service". While the Greek east under Roman rule was not revolutionary, perhaps, in the sense that Marx had in mind, it was engaged in creating something that had not previously existed, in part just through the millennia-long involvement with its own tradition, which was continually being remodelled and readapted...read more

By David Konstan (editor) and Suzanne Said (editor)

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9780906014288 | David Brown Book Co, April 30, 2007, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Karl Marx observed that "just when people seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves.

Heraclitus: Homeric Problems

Product Description: This is the first English translation of the only extended ancient treatise on Homer that survives today. It provides a detailed allegorical discussion of controversial passages in the Iliad and the Odyssey and is a mine of information on ancient approaches to allegory and to literary criticism...read more

By Heraclitus, David Konstan and Donald A. Russell (editor)

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9789004130821 | Brill Academic Pub, January 1, 2006, cover price $132.00 | About this edition: This is the first English translation of the only extended ancient treatise on Homer that survives today.

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9781589831223 | Society of Biblical Literature, June 30, 2005, cover price $20.95

Hierocles the Stoic: Elements of Ethics, Fragments, and Excerpts

By David Konstan (trans) and Ilaria Ramelli

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9781589834187 | Society of Biblical Literature, September 14, 2009, cover price $32.95

Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri

Product Description: Bryn Mawr Commentaries provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts to the direct experience of ancient Greek and Latin literature. They assume that the student will know the basics of grammar and vocabulary and then provide the specific grammatical and lexical notes that a student requires to begin the task of interpretation...read more

By David Konstan and Michael Roberts

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9780929524405 | Bryn Mawr Commentaries, December 1, 1985, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Bryn Mawr Commentaries provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts to the direct experience of ancient Greek and Latin literature.

Homer's Iliad

Product Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846. Excerpt: ... With toilsome chase of Hector, thrice around 90 The wind-swept walls of Ilion...read more

By Stanley Brodwin, David Konstan and David Sider

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9780671005016 | Reissue edition (Monarch Notes, March 1, 1987), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.

A Life Worthy of the Gods: The Materialist Psychology of Epicurus

Product Description: Epicurus, and his Roman disciple Lucretius, held that the primary cause of human unhappiness was an irrational fear of death. What is more, they believed that a clear understanding of the nature of the world would help to eliminate this fear; for if we recognise that the universe and everything in it is made up of atoms and empty space, we will see that the soul cannot possibly survive the extinction of the body -- and no harm to us can occur after we die...read more

By David Konstan

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9781930972285 | Parmenides Pub, November 17, 2008, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: Epicurus, and his Roman disciple Lucretius, held that the primary cause of human unhappiness was an irrational fear of death.

Menander's Dyskolos

By David Konstan

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9780929524207 | Bryn Mawr Commentaries, February 1, 1983, cover price $13.25

On Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethic 8 and 9

By Anonymous, Aspasius, David Konstan (trans) and Michael of Ephesus

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9780801439063 | Cornell Univ Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $117.95

On Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics 1-4, 7-8"

By Aspasius and David Konstan (trans)

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9780801445316 | Cornell Univ Pr, February 1, 2007, cover price $117.95

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