"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 livesâand influenced ours. Chosen and sequenced by Ostwald, the essays de ..."
"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 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."
"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 MartinOstwald 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 MartinOstwald Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1982 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-89130-572-9, ISBN: 0-89130-572-6
"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 ..."
"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."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
" 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 ..."
Anankē in Thucydides(1st Edition) (American classical studies) by MartinOstwald 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
..."
"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 MartinOstwald 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 ..."
"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."