"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 ..."
" 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 ..."
Oligarchia The Development of a Constitutional Form in Ancient Greece (Historia) by MartinOstwald Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2000 by Franz Steiner Verlag ISBN-13: 978-3-515-07680-7, ISBN: 3-515-07680-8
"... many colleagues, especially Professors Pierre Vidal-Na- quet and Pauline
Schmitt Pantel, were of inestimable value. To Professor Marcel Pierart I am
indebted for having compelled me, by is invitation to lecture on oligarchy at the
Universite de Fribourg, to give some sort of coherence to my thoughts. I am
further indebted to Swarthmore College for a subvention to cover the cost of
producing the 'Index Auctorum' and to Benjamin ..."
Lateinische Metrik(5th Edition) (STUDIENHEFTE ZUR ALTERTUMSWISSENSCHAFT) by James W. Halporn, MartinOstwald Paperback, 62 Pages, Published 2004 by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht ISBN-13: 978-3-525-25309-0, ISBN: 3-525-25309-5
"James W. Halporn, Martin Ostwald ... Obgleich jeder Verfasser letzten Endes nur
für seinen eigenen Beitrag verantwortlich ist, verdanken beide viel nicht nur
gegenseitiger Kritik, sondern auch ... Ferner gebührt unser Dank Herrn Dr.
HERBERT AHRENS, der die Übersetzungsarbeit mit Geschick und Hingabe
geleistet hat."