مؤلف: James Romm

Als 323 v.Chr. Alexander der Große völlig überraschend im Alter von kaum 33 Jahren in Babylon stirbt, ist sein ganzes Geschlecht – das makedonische Königshaus der Argeaden – dem Tode geweiht. Was sic …

Wenn die Philosophen Trauer tragen! Wir kennen den edlen Römer Seneca, den Stoiker und Autor ethischer Schriften, der mit verklärtem Blick seinen Tod erwartet. Aber es gibt noch einen anderen Seneca …

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‘Plutarch regularly shows that great leaders transcend their own purely material interests and petty, personal vanities. Noble ideals actually do matter, in government as in life.’ —Michael Dirda, Wa …

Read by Billy Crudup"These Characters are people we know-they’re our quirky neighbors, our creepy bosses, our blind dates from hell. Sharp-tongued Theophrastus, made sharper than ever in this fr …

From classicist James Romm comes a ‘;strikingfascinating’ (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great’s destruction of Thebesand the saga of …

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A rare biographical portrait of the philosopher Plato, showing how the ideas in his masterwork, Republic, were tested amid a bloody civil war. Many people know something of Plato’s works, yet few are …