Plato van Athene

Robin Waterfield

• Paperback | Nederlands
• Volgens velen is Plato de belangrijkste filosoof aller tijden. Hij werd geboren in een rijke familie in Athene. Als tiener bezocht hij lezingen van ro... Lees meer

Who Was Alexander the Great?

Kathryn Waterfield, Robin Waterfield, Who Hq

• Hardcover | Engels | Who Was?
• Alexander the Great conquers the New York Times best-selling Who Was...? series! When Alexander was a boy in ancient Macedon, he already had grand amb... Lees meer

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

• Hardcover | Engels
• This definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations is an insightful look into the mind of Ancient Rome's sixteenth emperor. As fea... Lees meer

Xenophon's Retreat

Robin Waterfield

• Paperback
• It is 401 BC. After an epic battle in Persia, Xenophon is elected general of the defeated Greek army and must lead the men on a fraught journey back h... Lees meer

The Theology of Arithmetic

Iambilichus Iambilichus

• Paperback | Engels
• Attributed to Iamblichus (4th cent. AD), The Theology of Arithmetic is about the mystical, mathmatical and cosmological symbolism of the first ten num... Lees meer

Hidden Depths

Robin Waterfield

• E-book | Engels
• With wit and verve Robin Waterfield brings the bizarre story of hypnotism to life. A lively mixture of popular history, science and psychology, Hidden... Lees meer

Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens

Robin Waterfield

• Hardcover | Engels
• "We Greeks are one in blood and one in language; we have temples to the gods and religious rites in common, and a common way of life." So the fifth-ce... Lees meer

The First Philosophers

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford World's Classics
• Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously the... Lees meer

Why Socrates Died

Robin Waterfield

• Hardcover | Engels
• The picture we have of it - created by his immediate followers and perpetuated in countless works of literature and art ever since - is that a noble m... Lees meer

La Retirada De Jenofonte

Robin Waterfield

• Boek | Spaans
• Corre el año 401 a.C. En Cunaxa, junto al río Eufrates, el rey persa Artajerjes derrota a su hermano Ciro el Joven, que pretendía arrebatarle el trono... Lees meer

Rene Guenon and the Future of the West

Robin Waterfield

• Paperback | Engels
• The first English-language biography of the well-known traditionalist metaphysican René Guénon, including a separate section assessing the impact of h... Lees meer

Demosthenes: Selected Speeches

Demosthenes, Robin Waterfield, Chris Carey

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Worlds Classics
• 'Even if everyone else succumbs to slavery, we must still fight for our freedom.' Admired by many in the ancient world as the greatest of the classic ... Lees meer

The Histories

Herodotus, Robin Waterfield

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford World's Classics
• "The father of history," as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus... Lees meer

Timaeus and Critias

Plato, Robin Waterfield, Andrew Gregory

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford World's Classics
• 'The god wanted everything to be good, marred by as little imperfection as possible.' Timaeus , one of Plato's acknowledged masterpieces, is an attemp... Lees meer

Meno and Other Dialogues

Plato, Robin Waterfield

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford World's Classics
• A unique selection of four dialogues in which Plato considers virtue-- individual virtue as well as virtue as a whole-- and its definition. Charmides,... Lees meer

Phaedrus

Plato, Robin Waterfield

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford World's Classics
• Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and i... Lees meer

The Making of a King

Robin Waterfield

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the third century BCE, the ancient kingdom of Macedon held dominion over mainland Greece, but it was rapidly descending into chaos. After Alexander... Lees meer

Hiero the Tyrant and Other Treatises

Xenophon

• E-book | Engels
• One of Socrates' Athenian disciples in his youth, Xenophon (c. 498-354 bc) fought as a mercenary commander in Cyrus the Younger's campaign to seize th... Lees meer

Hiero the Tyrant and Other Treatises

Xenophon

• Paperback | Engels
• In the dialogue between the poet Simonides and Hiero, tyrant of Syracuse, the author provides a consummate consideration of the burdens of being an ab... Lees meer

Xenophon's Retreat

Robin Waterfield

• Paperback | Engels
• In The Expedition of Cyrus , the Western world's first eyewitness account of a military campaign, Xenophon told how, in 401 B.C., a band of unruly Gre... Lees meer

Taken at the Flood

Robin Waterfield

• Hardcover | Engels | Ancient Warfare and Civilization
• "Is there anyone on earth who is so narrow-minded or uninquisitive that he could fail to want to know how and thanks to what kind of political system ... Lees meer

The Greek Myths

Robin Waterfield, Kathryn Waterfield

• E-book | Engels
• The Greek Myths contains some of the most thrilling, romantic, and unforgettable stories in all human history. From Achilles rampant on the fields of ... Lees meer

Platon von Athen

Robin Waterfield

• Hardcover | Duits
• Zu seinen Lebzeiten und danach galt Platon, einer der bedeutendsten Philosophen aller Zeiten, als nahezu göttliche Figur. Dies führte dazu, dass viele... Lees meer

Lives of the Attic Orators

Joseph Roisman, Ian Worthington

• Paperback | Engels | Clarendon Ancient History
• This volume provides a complete translation of, and historical and historiographical commentary on, the lives of the ten Attic orators given by Pseudo... Lees meer