Product Description: We live in a world where CEOs give themselves million dollar bonuses even as their companies go bankrupt and ordinary workers are laid off; where athletes make millions while teachers struggle to survive; a world, in short, where rewards are often unfairly meted out...read more

Product Description: The four late plays of Euripides collected here, in beautifully crafted translations by Cecelia Eaton Luschnig and Paul Woodruff, offer a faithful and dynamic representation of the playwright s mature vision.

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Product Description: Americans have an unwavering faith in democracy and are ever eager to import it to nations around the world. But how democratic is our own "democracy"? If you can vote, if the majority rules, if you have elected representatives--does this automatically mean that you have a democracy? In this eye-opening look at an ideal that we all take for granted, classical scholar Paul Woodruff offers some surprising answers to these questions...read more

Product Description: Looking for a dinosaur maze book that your child won't be done with in under 30 minutes? Look no further. A Tangled Tour: Dinosaurs & More is loaded with mazes of various difficulty levels. Younger children will master some of the mazes fairly quickly, while other mazes in the book will challenge even adults...read more

Looks at the meaning of reverence and its role in religion and society. (view table of contents)

Lectures by prominent scholars, writers, theologians, and philosophers address the nature of human evil. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This edition of early Greek writings on social and political issues includes works by more than thirty authors, including the sophists, poets, tragedians, historians, medical writers and presocratic philosophers. Besides political theory, ancient political thought includes early sociology, anthropology, ethics and rhetoric, and the wide range of issues discussed includes the origin of human society, the origin of law, the nature of justice, the forms of good government, and the distribution of power among genders and social classes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language and culture, this collection of extracts for The History of the Peloponnesian War includes those passages that shed most light on Thucydides' political theory -- famous as well as important but lesser known pieces frequently overlooked by nonspecialists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Together these two dialogues contain Plato's most important work on poetry and beauty.