The Spartan Tradition in European Thought (Clarendon Paperbacks) 0198147333, 9780198147336

The Spartan Tradition in European Thought

Ancient polemics on Sparta (by Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, and others) have had a remarkable afterlife in the political

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Essays in Ethical Theory (Clarendon Paperbacks) [Revised ed.] 0198240716, 9780198240716

R.M. Hare is one of the most widely discussed of today's moral philosophers. In this volume he has collected a numb

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Real People: Personal Identity without Thought Experiments (Clarendon Paperbacks) 0198240805, 9780198240808

This book explores the scope and limits of the concept of a person. Questioning the methodology of thought-experimentati

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Early Modern European Witchcraft: Centres and Peripheries (Clarendon Paperbacks) 0198203888, 9780198203889

The history of witchcraft and sorcery has attracted a great deal of interest and debate, but until now studies have been

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Ancient Greek Music (Clarendon Paperbacks) 0198149751, 9780198149750, 9780585229928

Ancient Greece was permeated by music, and the literature teems with musical allusions. Here at last is a clear, compreh

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The Medieval Crown of Aragon: A Short History (Clarendon Paperbacks) [Revised ed.] 9780198202363, 0198202369

The first study of its kind in English in more than fifty years, this book surveys the history of the medieval Crown of

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Homeric Soundings: The Shaping of the Iliad (Clarendon Paperbacks) [Revised] 9780198150145

The Iliad came into existence to be heard from start to finish. While this is generally accepted in theory, the poem has

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The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Clarendon Paperbacks) 0198152213, 9780198152217

Over the last sixty years scholars have increasingly become aware of links connecting early Greek poetry with the litera

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Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought 9780674250185

Plato’s penchant for mythmaking sits uneasily beside his reputation as the inventor of rationalist philosophy. Hegel’s s

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European Thought in the Eighteenth Century: From Montesquieu to Lessing

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