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Plautus: Casina
Plautus’ Casina is a lively and well composed farce. The plot, which concerns the competition of a father and his son for the same girl and the...
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Literacy in Traditional Societies
The importance of writing as a means of communication in a society formerly without it, or where writing has been confined to particular groups, is...
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Problems of Suffering in Religions of the World
A comparative general study of the problems of suffering as treated by Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Marxism, Hinduism and...
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Linguistic Evolution
Professor Samuels presents a comprehensive explanation of the reasons for linguistic change, applying his theory in particular to the history of...
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Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?
Many people find themselves dissatisfied with recent linguistic philosophy, and yet know that language has always mattered deeply to philosophy and...
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A History of Greek Philosophy
The fourth volume of Professor Guthrie’s great history of Greek thought deals exclusively with Plato. Plato, however, so prolific a writer, so...
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American Puritan Imagination
Over the last two decades a major revaluation has been taking place of the colonial Puritan imagination. With the growth of interest in early...
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Sophocles: Philoctetes
The theme of Sophocles’ Philoctetes is of lasting significance. It revolves round Neoptolemus’ struggles with his conscience, and Philoctetes’...
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Utilitarianism: For and Against
Two essays on utilitarianism, written from opposite points of view, by J. J. C. Smart and Bernard Williams. In the first part of the book Professor...
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The Cambridge Ancient History
Volumes I and II of The Cambridge Ancient History have had to be entirely rewritten as a result of the very considerable additions to knowledge which...
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Capitalism and Modern Social Theory
Giddens’s analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Weber has become the classic text for any student seeking to understand the three thinkers...
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Sophocles: Electra
In this edition of Sophocles’ Electra, one of the greatest tragedies in Greek or any literature, Mr Keels presents the play as a study in revenge,...
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Art and Experience in Classical Greece
An account of the development of Greek art in the Classical period (about 480–320 BC) which places particular emphasis on the meaning and content...
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Plato: Phaedrus
The dialogue begins with a playful discussion of erotic passion, then extends the theme to consider the nature of inspiration, love and knowledge....
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The Cambridge Ancient History
Part 2 of volume I deals with the history of the Near East from about 3000 to 1750 B.C. In Egypt, a long period of political unification and...
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A History of Greek Philosophy
The third volume of Professor Guthrie’s great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the...
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Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge
Two books have been particularly influential in contemporary philosophy of science: Karl R. Popper’s Logic of Scientific Discovery, and Thomas S....
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Greek and Roman Architecture
This book provides a brief, clear account of the main developments in the history of the Greek, Etruscan and Roman architecture, from the earliest...
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Speech Acts
Written in an outstandingly clear and lively style, it provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since...
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The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy
Surveys philosophy from the neo-Platonists to St. Anselm, showing how Greek philosophy took the form in which it was known to its cultural inheritors...
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A Grammar of the Arabic Language
Dr Wright’s translation of Caspari’s Arabic Grammar first appeared in 1859. Since that time it has been thoroughly revised and enlarged, and has...
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Shakespeare’s Stagecraft
For many years, critics and students of Shakespeare have tended to stress that his plays are poetic structures embodying ‘themes’, and these...
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