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Language and History in Ancient Greek Culture
by Martin Ostwald
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-4149-5, ISBN: 0-8122-4149-5

"Spanning forty years, this collection of essays represents the work of a renowned teacher and scholar of the ancient Greek world. Martin Ostwald's contribution is both philological and historical: the thread that runs through all of the essays is his precise explanation, for a modern audience, of some crucial terms by which the ancient Greeks saw and lived their lives—and influenced ours. Chosen and sequenced by Ostwald, the essays de ..."






The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetry(Updated)
by James Werner Halporn, Martin Ostwald, Thomas G. Rosenmayer, Thomas Gustav Rosenmeyer
Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 1994 by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-243-6, ISBN: 0-87220-243-7

"This text presents a clear and simple outline of Greek and Latin meters in order that the verse of the Greeks and Romans may be read as poetry. Although the Greek and Latin components are conceived as essentially independent, the arrangements of each section confirm in such a way as to facilitate the use of the two in conjunction. No comparable volume exists in English."






From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law(Reprint)
Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens
by Martin Ostwald
Paperback, 500 Pages, Published 1989 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-06798-1, ISBN: 0-520-06798-3

"From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law Analyzing the 'democratic' features and institutions of the Athenian democracy in the fifth century BC, this work traces their development from Solon's judicial reforms to the flowering of popular sovereignty, when the people assumed the right both to enact all legislation and to hold magistrates accountable for implementing what had been enacted."






Statesman(Updated)
by Joseph Bright Skemp, Martin Ostwald, Plato Plato
Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 1992 by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-138-5, ISBN: 0-87220-138-4

"This new edition of Martin Ostwald's revised version of J. B. Skemp's 1952 translation of Statesman includes a new selected bibliography, as well as Ostwald's interpretive introduction, which traces the evolution in Plato's political philosophy from Republic to Statesman to Laws — from philosopher-king to royal statesman. J. B. SKEMP is Professor Emeritus of Greek, The University of Durham. MARTIN OSTWALD is William R. Kenan, Jr. P ..."






Anangkê in Thucydides(18th Edition)
(American Philological Association American Classical Studies Series)
by Martin Ostwald
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1988 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55540-280-8, ISBN: 1-55540-280-1

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Autonomia, Its Genesis and Early History(1st Edition)
(American Philological Association American Classical Studies Series)
by Martin Ostwald
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1982 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-89130-572-9, ISBN: 0-89130-572-6

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Nicomachean Ethics(1st Edition)
by Martin Ostwald, Martin Ostwald Aristotle, Janis Klidzejs
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1999 by Pearson
ISBN-13: 978-0-02-389530-2, ISBN: 0-02-389530-6

"A vigorous polemicist as well as a rational philosopher, Aristotle (384 - 322 BCE) has the task in his ethics of demonstrating how men become good and why happiness can, and should, be our goal. The success of Aristotle's endeavour may be measured by the enormous impact of his ethics on Western moral philosophy through the centuries. Composed as mere lecture notes, it possesses a startling boldness and represents an exacting, exciting c ..."






From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law
Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens
by Martin Ostwald
Hardcover, 500 Pages, Published 1987 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-05426-4, ISBN: 0-520-05426-1

"Analyzing the "democratic" features and institutions of the Athenian democracy in the fifth century B.C., Martin Ostwald traces their development from Solon's judicial reforms to the flowering of popular sovereignty, when the people assumed the right both to enact all legislation and to hold magistrates accountable for implementing what had been enacted."






Nicomachean Ethics
by Martin Ostwald, Martin Aristotle, Introduction And Notes ., Martin Ostwald Aristotle
Paperback, 316 Pages, Published 1962 by Prentice Hall/Bobbs-Merrill
ISBN-13: 978-0-672-60256-6, ISBN: 0-672-60256-3

"A vigorous polemicist as well as a rational philosopher, Aristotle (384 - 322 BCE) has the task in his ethics of demonstrating how men become good and why happiness can, and should, be our goal. The success of Aristotle's endeavour may be measured by the enormous impact of his ethics on Western moral philosophy through the centuries. Composed as mere lecture notes, it possesses a startling boldness and represents an exacting, exciting c ..."






Plato Protogoras
by Martin Ostwald, Gregory Plato, Gregory Vlastos
Paperback, Published 1989 by Macmillan Coll Div
ISBN-13: 978-0-672-60232-0, ISBN: 0-672-60232-6

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Nomos and the Beginnings of the Athenian Democracy(1st Edition)
by Martin Ostwald
Hardcover, 228 Pages, Published 1969 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-814277-5, ISBN: 0-19-814277-3

"This book has hardback covers.Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,In fair condition, suitable as a study copy."






Language and History in Ancient Greek Culture
by Martin Ostwald
336 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-0609-8, ISBN: 0-8122-0609-6

"Homer's bracing narrative art evoked in me a youthful admiration ofAchilles, which convinced me that there was nothing to which I'd rather devote myself than the study of the culture that produced and eternalized a character of such dimensions. ... elementary Greek; no other subject offers the same excitement of daily watching the students' intellectual growth within the compass of one academic year from ignorance of even the Greek ..."






Greek Thought(1st Edition)
A Guide to Classical Knowledge (Harvard University Press Reference Library)
by Jacques Brunschwig, Catherine Porter, Julia Annas, Serge Bardet, Annie Bélis, Enrico Berti, Henry Blumenthal, Richard Bodéüs, Luc Brisson, Monique Canto-Sperber, Paul Cartledge, Barbara Cassin, Maurice Caveing, François De Gandt, Armelle Debru, John Dillon, Michael Frede, D. J. Furley, François Hartog, Carl Huffman, Edward Hussey, Christian Jacob, Jacques Joanna, José Kany-Turpin, Wilbur Knorr, André Laks, Alain Le Boulluec, Carlos Lévy, Mario Mignucci, Donald Morrison, Claude Mossé, Oswyn Murray, Carlo Natali, John David North, Martin Ostwald, Pierre Pellegrin, Gilbert Romeyer Dherbey, Malcolm Schofield, R. W. Sharples, Pierre Somville, G. J. Toomer, Robert Wardy, Anthony A. Long, Françoise Frazier
Hardcover, 1,056 Pages, Published 2000 by Belknap Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-00261-6, ISBN: 0-674-00261-X

" Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth and reach of Greek thought--investigating what the Greeks knew as well as what they thought about what they knew, and what they believed, invented, and unde ..."






Nicomachn Ethcs
Arist&utilit&fund Prin Pkg
by Martin Ostwald, Oskar Piest, Thomas K. Abbott
Paperback, Published 2000 by Addison Wesley Longman
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-070230-2, ISBN: 0-13-070230-7






Anankē in Thucydides(1st Edition)
(American classical studies)
by Martin Ostwald
Paperback, 82 Pages, Published 1988 by Scholars Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55540-279-2, ISBN: 1-55540-279-8

"In order to persuade his readers that his narrative of events is true and accurate, Thucydides has to make 'compelling' even those ... 48 W.R. Connor, "Narrative discourse in Thucydides," in The Greek Historians: Literature and History. Papers  ..."






From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law
Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens
by Martin Ostwald
500 Pages, Published 1987 by Univ Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-90968-7, ISBN: 0-520-90968-2

"Summon him for the benefit of the Council, so that we too may hear.' When the text on the stone was read and he was unable to say from whom he had heard this information, it was evident to the Council that he had deposited the suppliant's bough himself." 76 On the problem, see F. Jacoby, Atthis: The Local Chronicles of Ancient Athens (Oxford, 1949) 18-19, 26-27, 244-245 n. 46; and J. H. Oliver, The Athenian Expounders of the Sacred ..."






The Nicomachean Ethics
by Martin Ostwald
Paperback, 346 Pages, Published 2016 by Martino Fine Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-68422-044-1, ISBN: 1-68422-044-0

"Previously published as "Ethics", Aristotle's "The Nicomachean Ethics" addresses the question of how to live well and originates the concept of cultivating a virtuous character as the basis of his ethical system. Here Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness, and argues that happiness consists in 'activity of the soul in accordance with virtue', including moral virtues, such as courage, generosity and justice, and intellect ..."






The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetry(Updated)
by James W. Halporn, Martin Ostwald, Thomas G. Rosenmeyer, Et Al.
Paperback, 138 Pages, Published 1981 by University Of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-1558-0, ISBN: 0-8061-1558-0






Nomos and the Beginnings of the Athenian Democracy
by Martin Ostwald
Hardcover, 228 Pages, Published 1979 by Greenwood Pub Group
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-20963-5, ISBN: 0-313-20963-4

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Statesman(Updated)
(Hackett Classics)
by Martin Ostwald, Joseph Bright Skemp, Plato Plato
Library, 136 Pages, Published 1992 by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-139-2, ISBN: 0-87220-139-2

"This edition of Martin Ostwald's revised version of J. B. Skemp's 1952 translation of Statesman includes a new selected bibliography, as well as Ostwald's interpretive introduction, which traces the evolution in Plato's political philosophy from Republic to Statesman to Laws --from philosopher-king to royal statesman."



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