Autor: Konstan David Konstan

The second of two volumes collecting the complete tragedies of Seneca.Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus …

Until the launch of this series nearly twenty years ago, the 15, 000 volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, written mainly between 200 and 600 AD, constituted the largest corpus of e …

‘Pity Transformed’ is an examination of how pity was imagined and expressed in classical antiquity. It pays particular attention to the ways in which the pity of the Greeks and Romans differed from m …

‘Pity Transformed’ is an examination of how pity was imagined and expressed in classical antiquity. It pays particular attention to the ways in which the pity of the Greeks and Romans differed from m …

Book Six of Aristotle”s Physics, which concerns the continuum, shows Aristotle at his best. It contains his attack on atomism which forced subsequent Greek and Islamic atomists to reshape their view …

Aristotle devotes books 8-9 of the Nicomachean Ethics to friendship, distinguishing three kinds: a primary kind motivated by the other”s character; and other kinds motivated by utility or pleasure. …

Where did the idea of sin arise from? In this meticulously argued book, David Konstan takes a close look at classical Greek and Roman texts, as well as the Bible and early Judaic and Christian writin …

Where did the idea of sin arise from? In this meticulously argued book, David Konstan takes a close look at classical Greek and Roman texts, as well as the Bible and early Judaic and Christian writin …

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 Rom …