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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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« To speak of Haiti and its literature differently one needs to ask oneself, through the words of its writers, what light the Haitian experience can shed on the French-speaking world, and perhaps on the world at large, in this day and age: how a civilisation – and one...
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Collège de France
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2026-03-16
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Leçons inaugurales
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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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Twenty years ago Putin's fiercest critic was gunned down. Anna Politkovskaya was one of the great, heroic investigative journalists of the modern era. Shining a light on Russian state corruption, human rights abuses, and the brutal conflict in Chechnya she was renowned...
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Vintage Digital
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2026-02-19
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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
Parution :
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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Utter Vulnerability: Essays on the Poetry of John Wieners is the first-ever book devoted exclusively to this extraordinary writer, a figure Allen Ginsberg once called “one of the greatest poets around”. Featuring work by many of Wieners’ most articulate and passionate...
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Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
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2026-02-02
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Horizons anglophones
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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
Parution :
2026-01-21
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The Complete Works of Emma Goldman (5 Books) brings together the essential writings of Emma Goldman, one of the most influential radical thinkers and activists of the twentieth century. This illustrated edition presents a powerful collection of autobiographical...
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Asimis Books
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2026-03-29
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In colonial Burma, George Orwell was the man with the gun. He was also the man with the conscience. And in this searing, unforgettable essay, the two are ripped apart.
As a young British police officer, Orwell is called to investigate a tame elephant that has gone...
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Cactus
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2026-03-18
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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SING BACKWARDS AND WEEP'Expressionistic and visceral . . . exhilarating and unexpectedly funny' i PAPER'Compelling' MOJO'Shades of humour illuminate the dark judiciously' RECORD COLLECTORPoetic, raw, hallucinogenic and darkly witty, Devil...
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White Rabbit
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2021-12-14
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A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John GreenThe Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its...
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Ebury Digital
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2021-05-18
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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
Parution :
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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