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M.A. Screech Some Renaissance studies
selected articles 1951-1991 with a bibliography
Engels | Frans | 361 pagina's | Droz, Genève | 1992
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The Cambridge companion to Seneca
Engels | 361 pagina's | Cambridge University Press, New York, NY | 2015
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Emily Wilson The greatest empire
a life of Seneca
"The life and works of Seneca pose a number of fascinating challenges. For one thing, how can we reconcile the bloody, passionate tragedies, with the prose works advocating a life of Stoic tranquility? An even more challenging question is, how are we to reconcile Seneca the Stoic philosopher, the man of principle, who advocated a life of calm and simplicity, with Seneca the man of the moment, who amassed a vast personal fortune in the service of an emperor seen by many, at the time and afterwards,...
Engels | 253 pagina's | Oxford University Press, New York, NY | 2014
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Sarah B. Pomeroy Pythagorean women
their history and writings
This book discusses the principles that Pythagoras established for family life in Archaic Greece, such as constituting a single standard of sexual conduct for women and men. Among the Pythagoreans, women played an important role and participated actively in the philosophical life. While Pythagoras encouraged women to be submissive to men, his reasoning was based on the desire to preserve harmony in the home. This book provides English translations of all the earliest extant examples of literary...
Engels | 172 pagina's | The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore | 2013
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Stephen Greenblatt The swerve
how the Renaissance began
Engels | 356 pagina's | The Bodley Head, London | 2011
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