The Spartan Tradition in European Thought (Clarendon Paperbacks) 0198147333, 9780198147336

The Spartan Tradition in European Thought

Ancient polemics on Sparta (by Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, and others) have had a remarkable afterlife in the political

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Early Modern European Witchcraft: Centres and Peripheries (Clarendon Paperbacks) 0198203888, 9780198203889

The history of witchcraft and sorcery has attracted a great deal of interest and debate, but until now studies have been

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Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View (Clarendon Paperbacks) [Illustrated] 0198239807, 9780198239802

After introducing the empiricist point of view in philosophy of science, and the concepts and methods of the semantic ap

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Homeric Soundings: The Shaping of the Iliad (Clarendon Paperbacks) [Revised] 9780198150145

The Iliad came into existence to be heard from start to finish. While this is generally accepted in theory, the poem has

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The Medieval Crown of Aragon: A Short History (Clarendon Paperbacks) [Revised ed.] 9780198202363, 0198202369

The first study of its kind in English in more than fifty years, this book surveys the history of the medieval Crown of

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The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Clarendon Paperbacks) 0198152213, 9780198152217

Over the last sixty years scholars have increasingly become aware of links connecting early Greek poetry with the litera

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The Mind of the European Romantics: An Essay in Cultural History (Oxford Paperbacks) 9780192850836

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Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought 9780674250185

Plato’s penchant for mythmaking sits uneasily beside his reputation as the inventor of rationalist philosophy. Hegel’s s

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European Thought in the Eighteenth Century: From Montesquieu to Lessing

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The Political Thought of Pierre d'Ailly: The Voluntarist Tradition

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