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Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought /

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Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought /

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From Abortion to Pederasty : Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom /

Table of Contents: “…Difficult dialogues about a difficult dialogue : Plato's Symposium and its gay tradition /…”
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From Abortion to Pederasty : Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom /

Table of Contents: “…Difficult dialogues about a difficult dialogue : Plato's Symposium and its gay tradition /…”
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Hellenic philosophy origin and character / by Evangeliou, Christos

Table of Contents: “…Origin and maturity of Hellenic philosophy -- The origin of Hellenic philosophy -- Three basic questions -- The way from Hellas to the Nile -- The origin of Hellenic philosophy -- Modern Europeans vs. ancient Hellenes -- Plato and European philosophy -- Plato and Platonism -- Two versions of Platonism -- Augustine vs. …”
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Hellenic philosophy origin and character / by Evangeliou, Christos

Table of Contents: “…Origin and maturity of Hellenic philosophy -- The origin of Hellenic philosophy -- Three basic questions -- The way from Hellas to the Nile -- The origin of Hellenic philosophy -- Modern Europeans vs. ancient Hellenes -- Plato and European philosophy -- Plato and Platonism -- Two versions of Platonism -- Augustine vs. …”
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America's first Olympics the St. Louis games of 1904 / by Matthews, George R., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…A tale of two cities -- The ghost of Plato -- Transfer accepted -- St. Louis Olympian games -- Place in history.…”
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America's first Olympics the St. Louis games of 1904 / by Matthews, George R., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…A tale of two cities -- The ghost of Plato -- Transfer accepted -- St. Louis Olympian games -- Place in history.…”
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Philosophy for architects by Mitrovic, Branko

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Plato -- Aristotle -- The rise of modernity -- Immanuel Kant -- Romanticism and historicism -- Phenomenology and hermeneutics -- Philosophes and philosophers -- Analytic philosophy -- Conclusion.…”
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Sophistical rhetoric in classical Greece by Poulakos, John, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Sophistical rhetoric and its circumstances -- Terms for sophistical rhetoric -- Plato's reception of the sophists -- Isocrates' reception of the sophists -- Aristotle's reception of the sophists.…”
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Philosophy for architects by Mitrovic, Branko

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Plato -- Aristotle -- The rise of modernity -- Immanuel Kant -- Romanticism and historicism -- Phenomenology and hermeneutics -- Philosophes and philosophers -- Analytic philosophy -- Conclusion.…”
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Sophistical rhetoric in classical Greece by Poulakos, John, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Sophistical rhetoric and its circumstances -- Terms for sophistical rhetoric -- Plato's reception of the sophists -- Isocrates' reception of the sophists -- Aristotle's reception of the sophists.…”
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William Blake on self and soul by Quinney, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the impossible self -- Empiricism and despair -- Wordsworth, Plato, and Blake -- The four Zoas: transcendental remorse -- Milton: the guarded gates -- Jerusalem: the will to solitude.…”
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William Blake on self and soul by Quinney, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the impossible self -- Empiricism and despair -- Wordsworth, Plato, and Blake -- The four Zoas: transcendental remorse -- Milton: the guarded gates -- Jerusalem: the will to solitude.…”
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Aesopic conversations popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / by Kurke, Leslie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an elusive quarry: In search of ancient Greek popular culture; Explaining the joke: a roadmap for classicists; Synopsis of method and structure of argument -- The Aesopic challenge to Delphic authority: Ideological tensions at Delphi; the Aesopic critique; Neoptolemus and Aesop: sacrifice, hero cult, and competitive scapegoating -- Sophia before/beyond philosophy: the tradition of Sophia; Sophists and (as) sages; Aristotle and the transformation of Sophia -- Aesop as sage: political counsel and discursive practice; Aesop among the sages; Political animals: fable and the scene of advising -- Reading the life: the progress of a sage and the anthropology of Sophia: an Aesopic anthropology of wisdom; Aesop and Ahiqar; Delphic theoria and the death of a sage; the bricoleur as culture hero, or the art of extorting self-incrimination -- The Aesopic parody of high wisdom: demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the seven sages; Aesopic parody in the visual tradition -- Aesop at the invention of philosophy: the problematic sociopolitics of mimetic prose; the generic affiliations of Sokratikoi logoi -- The battle over prose: fable in sophistic education and Xenophon's Memorabilia: Sophistic fables; traditional fable narration in Xenophon's Memorabilia -- Sophistic fable in Plato: parody, appropriation, and transcendence: Plato's Protagoras: debunking Sophistic fable; Plato's symposium: ringing the changes on fable -- Aesop in Plato's Sokratikoi logoi: analogy, elenchos, and disavowal: Sophia into philosophy: Socrates between the sages and Aesop; the Aesopic bricoleur and the "old Socratic tool-box"; sympotic wisdom, comedy, and Aesopic competition in Hippias major -- Historie and logopoiia: two sides of Herodotean prose: history before prose, prose before history; Aesop ho logopoios; Plutarch reading Herodotus: Aesop, ruptures of decorum, and the non-Greek -- Herodotus and Aesop: Cyrus tells a fable; Greece and (as) fable, or resignifying the hierarchy of genre; fable as history; the Aesopic contract of the histories: Herodotus teaches his readers.…”
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Aesopic conversations popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / by Kurke, Leslie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an elusive quarry: In search of ancient Greek popular culture; Explaining the joke: a roadmap for classicists; Synopsis of method and structure of argument -- The Aesopic challenge to Delphic authority: Ideological tensions at Delphi; the Aesopic critique; Neoptolemus and Aesop: sacrifice, hero cult, and competitive scapegoating -- Sophia before/beyond philosophy: the tradition of Sophia; Sophists and (as) sages; Aristotle and the transformation of Sophia -- Aesop as sage: political counsel and discursive practice; Aesop among the sages; Political animals: fable and the scene of advising -- Reading the life: the progress of a sage and the anthropology of Sophia: an Aesopic anthropology of wisdom; Aesop and Ahiqar; Delphic theoria and the death of a sage; the bricoleur as culture hero, or the art of extorting self-incrimination -- The Aesopic parody of high wisdom: demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the seven sages; Aesopic parody in the visual tradition -- Aesop at the invention of philosophy: the problematic sociopolitics of mimetic prose; the generic affiliations of Sokratikoi logoi -- The battle over prose: fable in sophistic education and Xenophon's Memorabilia: Sophistic fables; traditional fable narration in Xenophon's Memorabilia -- Sophistic fable in Plato: parody, appropriation, and transcendence: Plato's Protagoras: debunking Sophistic fable; Plato's symposium: ringing the changes on fable -- Aesop in Plato's Sokratikoi logoi: analogy, elenchos, and disavowal: Sophia into philosophy: Socrates between the sages and Aesop; the Aesopic bricoleur and the "old Socratic tool-box"; sympotic wisdom, comedy, and Aesopic competition in Hippias major -- Historie and logopoiia: two sides of Herodotean prose: history before prose, prose before history; Aesop ho logopoios; Plutarch reading Herodotus: Aesop, ruptures of decorum, and the non-Greek -- Herodotus and Aesop: Cyrus tells a fable; Greece and (as) fable, or resignifying the hierarchy of genre; fable as history; the Aesopic contract of the histories: Herodotus teaches his readers.…”
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Kairós towards an ontology of "Due Time" / by Marramao, Giacomo, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…A ghost of space -- Plato's cinematography -- Einstein's dream -- The cosmic dance of the mind -- The architecture of time -- Philosophy : Eros' interlude -- Familiar strangeness -- The axis of time -- Kairós and Tempus.…”
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Kairós towards an ontology of "Due Time" / by Marramao, Giacomo, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…A ghost of space -- Plato's cinematography -- Einstein's dream -- The cosmic dance of the mind -- The architecture of time -- Philosophy : Eros' interlude -- Familiar strangeness -- The axis of time -- Kairós and Tempus.…”
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Transfigured World : Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism / by Williams, Carolyn, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part one: Opening conclusions -- Part two: Figural strategies in the Renaissance -- Part three: Historical novelty and Marius the Epicurean -- Part four: "Recovery as reminiscence": the Greek studies and Plato and Platonism -- Afterword.…”
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Transfigured World : Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism / by Williams, Carolyn, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part one: Opening conclusions -- Part two: Figural strategies in the Renaissance -- Part three: Historical novelty and Marius the Epicurean -- Part four: "Recovery as reminiscence": the Greek studies and Plato and Platonism -- Afterword.…”
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