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Menander, Volume I(1979) MENANDER

Menander, the dominant figure in New Comedy, wrote over 100 plays, of which one complete play, substantial portions of six others, and smaller but interesting fragments have been recovered. The complete play, Dyskolos (The Peevish Fellow), won first prize

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On the Nature of Things(1924) LUCRETIUS

Lucretius lived ca. 99–ca. 55 BC, but the details of his career are unknown. In his didactic poem De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) he expounds Epicurean philosophy so as to dispel fear of the gods and death, and promote spiritual tranquility.

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Civil War (Pharsalia)(1928) LUCAN

In his epic The Civil War, Lucan (AD 39–65) carries us from Caesar’s fateful crossing of the Rubicon, through the Battle of Pharsalus, Pompey’s death, and Cato’s leadership in Africa, to Caesar victorious in Egypt. The poem is also called Pharsalia.

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Roman Antiquities, Volume I(1937) DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS

The main aim of Roman Antiquities was to reconcile Greeks to Roman rule. Of the twenty books (from the earliest times to 264 BC) we have the first nine complete; most of 10 and 11; extracts; and an epitome of the whole.

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Na kraju zapisano(2023) ALEŠ ŠTEGER

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Posterior Analytics. Topica(1960) ARISTOTLE

Nearly all the works Aristotle (384–322 BC) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as practical; logical; physical; metaphysical; on art; other;

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Plays, Prose Writings And Poems(1991) WILDE, OSCAR

Famed as a wit and bon viveur, Oscar Wilde lived up to his reputation. This selection of plays, poems and prose writings, introduced by Terry Eagleton, includes "The Importance of Being Earnest", "Lady Windermere's Fan", "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "The

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26,62 €

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History of the Wars, Volume V(1928) PROCOPIUS

History of the Wars by Procopius (late fifth century to after AD 558) consists largely of sixth-century military history, with much information about peoples, places, and special events. Powerful description complements careful narration. Procopius is jus

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Dirka od bloka do drevesa: eseji o športu, morali, dopingu in nevednosti(2023) LUCIJAN ZALOKAR

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Dead Come to Life or The Fisherman. The Double Indictment or Trials by Jury. On Sacrifices. The Ignorant Book Collector. The Dream or Lucian's Career. The Parasite. The Lover of Lies. The Judgement of the Goddesses. On Salaried Posts in Great Houses(1921) LUCIAN

Lucian (ca. AD 120–190), apprentice sculptor then traveling rhetorician, settled in Athens and developed an original brand of satire. Notable for the Attic purity and elegance of his Greek and for literary versatility, he is famous chiefly for the lively,

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Hippocrates, Volume III(1928) HIPPOCRATES

Of the roughly seventy treatises in the Hippocratic Collection, many are not by Hippocrates (said to have been born on Cos in or before 460 BC), but they are essential sources of information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theo

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On Old Age. On Friendship. On Divination(1923) CICERO

We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman. Besides much else, his work conveys the turmoil of his time, and the part he played in a period that saw the rise and fall of Julius Ca

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Harp in the Stars(2021)

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Cataract(2011) BERGER, JOHN

John Berger, whose classic book Ways of Seeing has been in print for fifty years, joins forces with Turkish illustrator Selcuk Demirel to reflect on his own experience of loss of vision

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Ennead, III(1967) PLOTINUS

Plotinus (204/5–270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them sometime between 301 and 305 CE in six sets of nine treatises each (Enneads), with a biography of his mas

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Novelist as a Vocation(2024) MURAKAMI, HARUKI

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Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches(2004) LUCIAN

Lucian exulted in the exposure of absurdity, and was capable of finding a comic angle on almost any subject. This book shows him conversing with his literary enemies, railing against hypocrisy and the vanity of human wealth and power, and taking a wry loo

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Shell Game(2018)

Within the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a new type of form is quietly emerging, what Brenda Miller calls ""hermit crab essays"". The Shell Game is an anthology of these intriguing essays that borrow their structures from ordinary, everyday sou

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36,58 €

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Essays(1992) PLUTARCH

Plutarch wrote a large number of essays on ethical, scientific, philosophical, ephemeral, historical and literary topics. Even when dealing with technical subjects, the essays reflect the author's particular style - with anecdotes and quotations included.

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