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The Book of the City of Ladies and Other Writings by Christine; Sophie Bourgault (Editor); Rebecca Kingston (Editor); Ineke Hardy (Translator); Christine De Pizan
Category: Culture | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
"Fresh, accurate, and engaging, this new translation of the Book of the City of Ladies helps us to understand what made Christine de Pizan so popular with her fifteenth-century contemporaries. The editors provide a rich historical and philosophical context that will be very useful to both students and s ...Show more
The Handbook of Epictetus by Epictetus
Category: Fiction | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
From the Introduction: "Stoic philosophy, of which Epictetus (c. a.d. 50-130) is a representative, began as a recognizable movement around 300 b.c. Its founder was Zeno of Cytium (not to be confused with Zeno of Elea, who discovered the famous paradoxes). He was born in Cyprus about 336 b.c., but all o ...Show more
The Histories by Herodotus; Pamela Mensch (Translator); James Romm
Category: Fiction | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
The Histories is a book by a Greek historian Herodotus from Halicarnassus (V century BC), the first fully preserved historical and prosaic work in the European literature. It is the most valuable source of the early history of Greece and the East. Detailed descriptions and accurate observations are put ...Show more
The Inner Chapters by Zhuangzi
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
The Inner Chapters are the oldest pieces of the larger collection of writings by several fourth, third, and second century B.C. authors that constitute the classic of Taoism, the Chuang-Tzu (or Zhuangzi). It is this core of ancient writings that is ascribed to Chuang-Tzu himself.
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
The most influential ethical treatise ever written, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics offers accounts of human happiness and welfare; the nature of a good person; the psychology of action and character; the virtues of character and intellect; praise, blame, and moral responsibility; practical reason; weakn ...Show more
The Saga of the Volsungs - With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok by Jackson Crawford (Translated with commentary by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and comprise our best source of traditional lore about ...Show more
The Sophist by Plató; Nicholas White (Translator, Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
A fluent and accurate new translation of the dialogue that, of all Plato's works, has seemed to speak most directly to the interests of contemporary and analytical philosophers. White's extensive introduction explores the dialogue's central themes, its connection with related discussions in other dialog ...Show more
The Theaetetus of Plato by Myles Burnyeat (Revised by); M. J. Levett (Translator); Plató
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
M. J. Levett's elegant translation of Plato's Theaetetus, first published in 1928, is here revised by Myles Burnyeat to reflect contemporary standards of accuracy while retaining the style, imagery, and idiomatic speech for which the Levett translation is unparalleled. Bernard William's concise introduc ...Show more
The Wars of Justinian by Procopius; H. B. Dewing (Trans)
Category: History | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
A fully-outfitted edition of Prokopios' late Antique masterpiece of military history and ethnography--for the 21st-century reader. "At last . . . the translation that we have needed for so long: a fresh, lively, readable, and faithful rendering of Prokopios' Wars, which in a single volume will make thi ...Show more
Theban Plays by Sophocles
Category: Reference | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
This powerful new rendering of the plays of the Theban cycle includes, in addition to the translators' celebrated Oedipus Tyrannus, annotated new translations of Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus. Peter Meineck is Producing Artistic Director of The Aquila Theatre Co, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Anc ...Show more
Three Sisters by Anton Chekov; Sharon Marie Carnicke (Translator, Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
The Prozorov sisters, Olga, Masha and Irina, dream of freedom, sex, romance and Moscow. Two figures appear in their lives. Vershinin, the new battery commander, has hopes of a better future for mankind. Natasha, a local woman, has hopes of a better future for herself. Each will transform the Prozorov fa ...Show more
Utilitarianism - With Related Remarks from Mill's Other Writings by John Stuart Mill; Ben Eggleston (Editor)
Category: Culture | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
This edition of Utilitarianism supplements the text of Mill's classic essay with 58 related remarks carefully selected from Mill's other writings, ranging from his treatise on logic to his personal correspondence. In these remarks, Mill comments on specific passages of Utilitarianism , elaborates on top ...Show more