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Wenn die Philosophen Trauer tragen! Wir kennen den edlen Römer Seneca, den Stoiker und Autor ethi...

Als 323 v.Chr. Alexander der Große völlig überraschend im Alter von kaum 33 Jahren in Babylon sti...

'Es braucht ein ganzes Leben, um zu lernen, wie man stirbt', schrieb der römische Philosoph Senec...

'It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die,' wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4...

'[Romm] deftly pieces the story together ... Mr. Romm negotiates artfully in fluent, accessible p...

A portrait of one of the ancient world's first political celebrities, who veered from failure to ...

A vivid new translation in which the Stoic philosopher argues that virtue is the only path to con...

'The truly happy man ought to stay at home.' 'Hunger, and lack of coin, put a stop to love.' 'Had...

When Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-two, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Se...

For the Greeks and Romans the earth's farthest perimeter was a realm radically different from wha...

In his essay 'On Anger' (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD) argues that ange...

The more things change, the more they stay the same: Theophrastus' Characters, a classical Greek ...

Plato is one of history's most influential thinkers, the 'sublime philosopher' whose writings rem...

To give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do--but it is also the closest you c...

A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible tra...

Major figures in the civil wars that ended the Roman Republic, the names Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, ...

Major figures in the civil wars that ended the Roman Republic, the names Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, ...

Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander, widely considered the most authoritative history of the brillian...

'A vibrant new translation of Seneca's 'On the Shortness of Life,' a pointed reminder to make the...

From the leading scholars behind The Greek Plays, a collection of the best translations of the fo...

A curated selection of the most significant life lessons from the iconic work of Stoic philosophy...

Many people know something of Plato's works, yet few are familiar with his life outside of his wr...

The tragic story of ancient Greece’s last democratic leader and his doomed fight to save Athens f...

Marcus Licinius Crassus (115?53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of...

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