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Metaphysics

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Ecce Homo

In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of th…

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'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?'

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The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)

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Discourses and Selected Writings

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Phaedrus (Hackett Classics)

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The Histories

David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history.

Here is the historian, investigating and judging what…

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Gorgias

The classic political dialogue, as relevant today as in Plato's time

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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

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Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

The second edition of Five Dialogues presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato, Complete Works (Hacket, 1997). Cooper has also contributed a number of n…

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The Iliad

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The Nicomachean Ethics

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy’

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Homeric Hymns

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The Symposium

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever.

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On the Genealogy of Morals

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Phaedrus (Hackett Classics)