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Product Description: From science fiction novels to films, Atlantis has held powerful sway over the popular imagination, providing a seductive image of a civilization, a sibling to our own, which seems just out of reach beneath the waves. The roots of this enchanting story stretch all the way back to the ancients...read more
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9780859898577 | Rev upd edition (Univ of Exeter Pr, April 15, 2013), cover price $100.00 | About this edition: From science fiction novels to films, Atlantis has held powerful sway over the popular imagination, providing a seductive image of a civilization, a sibling to our own, which seems just out of reach beneath the waves.

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9780859898584 | Rev upd edition (Univ of Exeter Pr, January 15, 2014), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: From science fiction novels to films, Atlantis has held powerful sway over the popular imagination, providing a seductive image of a civilization, a sibling to our own, which seems just out of reach beneath the waves.

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Product Description: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is one of the best-known and most popular works of ancient philosophy, offering spiritual reflections on how best to understand the universe and one's place within it. In short, highly charged comments, Marcus draws on Stoic philosophy to confront challenges that he felt acutely, but which are also shared by all human beings--facing the constant presence of death, making sense of one's social role, grasping the moral significance of the universe...read more
By Christopher Gill (introduced by)
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9780199573202 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 25, 2011, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is one of the best-known and most popular works of ancient philosophy, offering spiritual reflections on how best to understand the universe and one's place within it.

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Product Description: Christopher Gill offers a new analysis of what is innovative in Hellenistic - especially Stoic and Epicurean - philosophical thinking about selfhood and personality. His wide-ranging discussion of Stoic and Epicurean ideas is illustrated by a more detailed examination of the Stoic theory of the passions and a new account of the history of this theory...read more
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9780198152682 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 2006, cover price $215.00 | About this edition: Christopher Gill offers a new analysis of what is innovative in Hellenistic--especially Stoic and Epicurean--philosophical thinking about selfhood and personality.

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9780199564378 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 15, 2009, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Christopher Gill offers a new analysis of what is innovative in Hellenistic - especially Stoic and Epicurean - philosophical thinking about selfhood and personality.

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Product Description: New essays by an international team of scholars in Latin literature and ancient philosophy explore the understanding of emotions (or "passions") in Roman thought (especially philosophy and rhetorical theory) and literature. Special features include the wide range of Latin authors discussed (including such famous Latin prose and verse writers as Cicero and Virgil), the fresh and searching studies of key literary texts and the accessibility of the book, in clear and nontechnical language, with Greek and Latin translated...read more
By Susanna Morton Braund (editor) and Christopher Gill (editor)
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9780521473910 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $132.00 | About this edition: New essays by an international team of scholars in Latin literature and ancient philosophy explore the understanding of emotions (or "passions") in Roman thought (especially philosophy and rhetorical theory) and literature.

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9780521030908 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 29, 2007, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: New essays by an international team of scholars in Latin literature and ancient philosophy explore the understanding of emotions (or "passions") in Roman thought (especially philosophy and rhetorical theory) and literature.

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Product Description: Four related themes in Greek thought are examined in this book: (1) personality and self, (2) ethics and values (3) individuals and communities, and (4) the idea of nature as a moral norm. Although the focus is on Greek philosophy (the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic period), links between philosophy and literature or the wider culture are also explored...read more
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9780199220748 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 10, 2006), cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Four related themes in Greek thought are examined in this book: (1) personality and self, (2) ethics and values (3) individuals and communities, and (4) the idea of nature as a moral norm.

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Product Description: For much of the twentieth century it was common to contrast the characteristic forms and preoccupations of modern ethical theory with those of the ancient world. However, the last few decades have seen a growing recognition that contemporary moral philosophy now has much in common with its ancient incarnation, in areas as diverse as virtue ethics and ethical epistemology...read more
By Christopher Gill (editor)
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9780199264384 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 5, 2005, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: For much of the twentieth century it was common to contrast the characteristic forms and preoccupations of modern ethical theory with those of the ancient world.

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By Christopher Gill (introduced by)
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9781417798742 | Turtleback Books, April 1, 2003, cover price $19.70

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Product Description: Plato and the City is a general introduction to Plato's political ideas. It covers the main periods of Platonic thought, examining those dialogues that best show how Plato makes the city's unity the aim of politics and then makes the quest for that unity the aim of philosophy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Christopher Gill (foreword by), Janet Lloyd (trans) and Jean-Francois Pradeau
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9780859896535 | Univ of Exeter Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Plato and the City is a general introduction to Plato's political thought.

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9780859896542 | Univ of Exeter Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Plato and the City is a general introduction to Plato's political ideas.

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Product Description: In this collection of essays, an international team of outstanding scholars engage with the ideas and methods of Professor Peter  Wiseman's past and present work.  They provide a sustained response to the work of one of the most widely respected Roman historians of this generation...read more
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9780859896627 | Univ of Exeter Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: In this collection of essays, an international team of outstanding scholars engage with the ideas and methods of Professor Peter  Wiseman's past and present work.

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Product Description: Eight new studies on one of the most challenging of Plato's works involving, in mythical form, his views on cosmology, and on the human body and soul. The philosopher's contribution to mathematics and his conception of 'God' are discussed in detail in a book that restores to its proper place a problematic dialogue often dismissed by scholars...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Andrew Barker (contributor), Scott Burgess (contributor), Gordon Campbell (contributor), Christopher Gill (contributor) and M. R. Wright (editor)
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9780715630570 | Classical Pr of Wales, November 1, 2000, cover price $59.50 | About this edition: Eight new studies on one of the most challenging of Plato's works involving, in mythical form, his views on cosmology, and on the human body and soul.

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Product Description: Why did Plato put his philosophical arguments into dialogues, rather than presenting them in a plain and readily understandable fashion? A group of distinguished scholars here offer answers to this question by studying the relation between form and argument in his late dialogues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Christopher Gill (editor) and Mary Margaret McCabe (editor)
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9780198240129 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 23, 1996, cover price $156.00 | About this edition: Why did Plato put his philosophical arguments into dialogues, rather than presenting them in a plain and readily understandable fashion?

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9780199241422 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 16, 2000, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Why did Plato put his philosophical arguments into dialogues, rather than presenting them in a plain and readily understandable fashion?

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Product Description: In this text Plato uses a dinner party as a scene for a series of speeches by the guests. From these there emerges a complete and complex philosophy of love. The pivot of the argument is Socrates' speech in which sensuality is transcended and we move from the sensible world to the ideal world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Christopher Gill (introduced by)
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9780140446166 | Penguin Classics, October 1, 1999, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: In this text Plato uses a dinner party as a scene for a series of speeches by the guests.

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Product Description: In this collection of new essays, an international group of experts explores, in connection with Greek culture, an idea that has proven very fruitful in anthropology: that of reciprocity as a practice and idea. It provides the most comprehensive examination so far of reciprocity in Greek economic, social, and intellectual life, discussing its relevance to epic and drama, historical writing, oratory, religion, and ethical philosophy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Christopher Gill (editor), Norman Postlethwaite (editor) and Richard Seaford (editor)
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9780198149972 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 30, 1998, cover price $225.00 | About this edition: In this collection of new essays, an international group of experts explores, in connection with Greek culture, an idea that has proven very fruitful in anthropology: that of reciprocity as a practice and idea.

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Product Description: This is a major study of conceptions of selfhood and personality in Homer and Greek Tragedy and Philosophy. The focus is on the norms of personality in Greek psychology and ethics. Gill argues that the key to understanding Greek thought of this type is to counteract the subjective and individualistic aspects of our own thinking about the person...read more
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9780198146766 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 23, 1996, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This is a major study of conceptions of selfhood and personality in Homer and Greek Tragedy and Philosophy.

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9780198152323 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 16, 1998), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This is a major study of conceptions of selfhood and personality in Homer and Greek Tragedy and Philosophy.

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Product Description: For centuries, Stoicism was virtually the unofficial religion of the Roman worldYet the stress on endurance, self-restraint and the power of the will to withstand calamity can often seem coldhearted. It is Epictetus, a lame former slave exiled by the Emperor Domitian, who offers by far the most positive and humane version of Stoic ideals...read more
By Epictetus, Christopher Gill (editor) and Robin Hard (trans)
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9780460873123 | Subsequent edition (Everyman, March 2, 1995), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: For centuries, Stoicism was virtually the unofficial religion of the Roman worldYet the stress on endurance, self-restraint and the power of the will to withstand calamity can often seem coldhearted.

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Product Description: Where the boundary lies between falsehood and fiction, between an actual untruth and an admitted invention, has set off many debates in intellectual circles. In classical studies, this issue has gained prominence through the upsurge of interest in the ancient novel and through recent work on the rhetorical character of ancient historiography...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780292727670 | Univ of Texas Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Where the boundary lies between falsehood and fiction, between an actual untruth and an admitted invention, has set off many debates in intellectual circles.

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Product Description: This collection of essays explores analogous issues in classical and modern philosophy that relate to the concepts of person and human being. A primary focus is whether there are such analogous issues, and whether we can find in ancient philosophy a notion that is comparable to "person" as understood in modern philosophy...read more
By Christopher Gill (editor)
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9780198244608 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 19, 1990, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This collection of essays explores analogous issues in classical and modern philosophy that relate to the concepts of person and human being.

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9780906515594 | Bristol Classical Pr, June 1, 1980, cover price $18.81

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