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Product Description: The relationship between Seneca's prose works and his career as a first-century Roman statesman is problematic, for while he writes in the first person, he tells little of his external life or of the people and events that formed its setting...read more

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9780198143659 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 5, 1976, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The relationship between Seneca's prose works and his career as a first-century Roman statesman is problematic, for while he writes in the first person, he tells little of his external life or of the people and events that formed its setting.

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Examines the story of the Underground Railroad and its role in helping escaped slaves find their way north to freedom

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9780516446431 | Childrens Pr, September 1, 1981, cover price $4.95 | also contains Cicero's Ideal Statesman in Theory and Practice | About this edition: Discusses the network of groups and individuals throughout Ohio and the New England states who aided slaves escaping from their captivity during the nineteenth century.

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9780516046433 | Childrens Pr, September 1, 1981, cover price $16.40 | also contains Robots in the Field | About this edition: Discusses the network of groups and individuals throughout Ohio and the New England states who aided slaves escaping from their captivity during the nineteenth century.

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Product Description: Boethius: His Life, Thought and Influence,,,, first edition published in 1981 by Basil Blackwell Publisher Limited
By Margaret Gibson (editor)

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9780631111412 | Blackwell Pub, December 1, 1982, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Boethius: His Life, Thought and Influence,,,, first edition published in 1981 by Basil Blackwell Publisher Limited

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9780801415593 | Cornell Univ Pr, February 1, 1984, cover price $44.50

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Product Description: Marco Aurelio nace el 26 de abril del ano 121 d. C. en el seno de una familia aristocratica que cuenta con la confianza del emperador. Desde su primera infancia parece destinado a ocupar puestos relevantes en el Imperio y muy temprano comienza a integrarse en lo mas alto de la vida ciudadana...read more

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9788424934972 | Italian edition edition (Gredos Editorial S.A., February 1, 1984), cover price $37.95

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9788437619316 | 3 edition (Catedra Ediciones, June 30, 2005), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Marco Aurelio nace el 26 de abril del ano 121 d.

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Product Description: In recent years, the mutual interaction between philosophy and Roman political and cultural life has aroused much interest. In this collection of papers, originally delivered at the seminar on Philosophy and Roman Society at the University of Oxford, scholars from several disciplines investigate this interaction in the late Republic and early Empire, with particular emphasis on the formative period of the first century B...read more

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9780198148845 | Clarendon Pr, August 1, 1989, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: In recent years, the mutual interaction between philosophy and Roman political and cultural life has aroused much interest.

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Product Description: Cicero is best known for his political speeches. His Catilinarian orations are regularly studied in third or fourth year Latin; his self-proclaimed role as savior of the Republic is much discussed in courses on Roman history. But, however fascinating such material may be, there is another side to Cicero which is equally important and only now receiving the attention it deserves...read more

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9780887382710 | Transaction Pub, October 1, 1989, cover price $60.95 | About this edition: Cicero is best known for his political speeches.

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By Miriam T. Griffin (editor)

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9780198147749 | Reprint edition (Clarendon Pr, April 2, 1992), cover price $115.00

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A detailed study, designed for use in Catholic seminaries, of classical philosophy, stressing the theories of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and their followers

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9780855321819 | Search Pr Ltd, December 1, 1994, cover price $80.00
9780809100651 | Paulist Pr, June 1, 1976, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: A detailed study, designed for use in Catholic seminaries, of classical philosophy, stressing the theories of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and their followers

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9780385468435, titled "A History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome" | Reprint edition (Image Books, April 1, 1993), cover price $19.95
9789990094879 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, April 1, 1993, cover price $0.02

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9780226311937 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $24.95

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9780226311944, titled "Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision" | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, April 28, 1998), cover price $23.00

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Product Description: This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially helpful to those looking at the text from a scientific or philosophical point of view...read more

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9780198150978 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 5, 1998, cover price $245.00

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9780192817617 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 10, 1999, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters.
9780140446104 | Rev sub edition (Penguin Classics, December 1, 1994), cover price $15.00

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9780460873123 | Subsequent edition (Everyman, March 2, 1995), cover price $9.95

By J. G. F. Powell (editor)

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9780198147510 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 7, 1995, cover price $75.00

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Product Description: For generations the debate has continued: can politicians, or mid-level administrators, speak freely and say what they think, or must they describe their superiors in purely flattering ways and abandon any philosophy of independent thought? The politician and philosopher Themistius faced these same issues in the later fourth century, in composing and delivering his panegyrics for several Roman emperors...read more

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9780472104857 | Univ of Michigan Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: For generations the debate has continued: can politicians, or mid-level administrators, speak freely and say what they think, or must they describe their superiors in purely flattering ways and abandon any philosophy of independent thought?

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Product Description: Plotinus is the greatest philosopher in the 700 year period between Aristotle and Augustine. He thought of himself as a disciple of Plato, but in his efforts to defend Platonism against Aristotelians, Stoics, and others, he actually produced a reinvigorated version of Platonism that later came to be known as "Neoplatonism"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Lloyd P. Gerson (editor)

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9780521470933 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $83.99 | About this edition: Plotinus is the greatest philosopher in the 700 year period between Aristotle and Augustine.

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9780521476768 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 1996, cover price $54.99

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Product Description: Toward the end of the last century Cicero's work came under attack from several angles. His political stance was sharply criticized for inconsistency by Theodor Mommsen and others, his philosophical works for lack of originality. Since then scholars have come to a better understanding of the political conditions that informed the views of Mommsen and his contemporaries about Caesar and Cicero, and as a result Cicero's writings have been restored to a more appropriate position in the literature and history of the Roman Republic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780472107193 | Univ of Michigan Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Toward the end of the last century Cicero's work came under attack from several angles.

By Jonathan Barnes (editor) and Miriam Griffin (editor)

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9780198150565 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 27, 1997, cover price $78.00

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9780198152224 | Clarendon Pr, September 23, 1999, cover price $110.00

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Product Description: In recent years, the mutual interaction between philosophy and Roman political and cultural life has aroused much interest. In this collection of papers, originally delivered at the seminar on Philosophy and Roman Society at the University of Oxford, scholars from several disciplines investigate this interaction in the late Republic and early Empire, with particular emphasis on the formative period of the first century B...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Jonathan Barnes (editor) and Miriam Griffin (editor)

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9780198150855 | Reprint edition (Clarendon Pr, February 13, 1997), cover price $100.00 | About this edition: In recent years, the mutual interaction between philosophy and Roman political and cultural life has aroused much interest.

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