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The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, accompanied by incisive commentaries that focus on philosophical problems and issues.The volumes in the series have been...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-04-21
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Truth and Enjoyment in Cicero offers a fundamental re-examination of the relation between truth and enjoyment as understood in the traditional confrontation between rhetoric and philosophy in Cicero. His simultaneous advocacy of classical rationality and continued...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-04-16
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Truth and Enjoyment in Cicero offers a fundamental re-examination of the relation between truth and enjoyment as understood in the traditional confrontation between rhetoric and philosophy in Cicero. His simultaneous advocacy of classical rationality and continued...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-16
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This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Thomas Hobbes' English version in 1629. As Valla's manuscript passed...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-13
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This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Thomas Hobbes' English version in 1629. As Valla's manuscript passed...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-03-13
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Epicurus' philosophical project is...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-18
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This book surveys all the instances of revenge in the eight tragedies written by the Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca. It focuses especially on the following six plays: Agamemnon, Phaedra, Medea, Troades, Hercules furens, and Thyestes. The most significant result...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-18
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Epicurus' philosophical project is...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-06
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This book surveys all the instances of revenge in the eight tragedies written by the Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca. It focuses especially on the following six plays: Agamemnon, Phaedra, Medea, Troades, Hercules furens, and Thyestes. The most significant result...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-06
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Schadenfreude, "pleasure in other people's misfortunes", is an emotion that pervades Greek texts and pervaded Greek communities. Many of their salient characteristics provided the ideal terrain for schadenfreude: competitiveness, a fierce attachment to honor and...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-01-30
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This book builds a new framework for interpreting the use of classical source material in Macrobius' Saturnalia. It argues that the Saturnalia, an educational dialogue long dismissed as a nostalgic compilation looking back to the 'pagan' classical past, engages with its...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-01-21
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This book builds a new framework for interpreting the use of classical source material in Macrobius' Saturnalia. It argues that the Saturnalia, an educational dialogue long dismissed as a nostalgic compilation looking back to the 'pagan' classical past, engages with its...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-01-10
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Inscribing Flavian Rome offers the first systematic investigation of Martial's dynamic engagement with the full range of Roman epigraphic habits. Breaking new ground in the study of Roman epigram, it establishes a new interpretation of early imperial writing culture...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-12-15
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This book presents an innovative theoretical framework for exploring the intellectual culture of ancient Greece in the period 450–350 BC. The bewildering questions and surprising opportunities posed by emergent styles of ontological thinking at this time, about issues...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-12-03
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Book 17 of Silius Italicus' Punica serves as the powerful conclusion of the epic, detailing the final stages of the Second Punic War, culminating in the Battle of Zama, where Roman dominance is secured. The narrative intertwines divine intervention with human conflict....
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-26
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This book presents an innovative theoretical framework for exploring the intellectual culture of ancient Greece in the period 450–350 BC. The bewildering questions and surprising opportunities posed by emergent styles of ontological thinking at this time, about issues...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-21
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Last Thoughts on Euripedes is a companion to the second edition of volume II of the Oxford Classical Text of Euripides, which contains a radically revised text and apparatus criticus of six textually problematic plays. Its purpose is to explain and justify the choices...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-19
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More than forty years have passed since the publication of volume II of James Diggle's Oxford Classical Text of Euripides (1981). That volume was the first to be published of the three volumes of the OCT edition: volumes I and III followed in 1984 and 1994. This second...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-19
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Schadenfreude, "pleasure in other people's misfortunes", is an emotion that pervades Greek texts and pervaded Greek communities. Many of their salient characteristics provided the ideal terrain for schadenfreude: competitiveness, a fierce attachment to honor and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-15
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Inscribing Flavian Rome offers the first systematic investigation of Martial's dynamic engagement with the full range of Roman epigraphic habits. Breaking new ground in the study of Roman epigram, it establishes a new interpretation of early imperial writing culture...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-15
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