Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl

By Thor Heyerdahl

"Am going to pass Pacific on a wood raft to help a concept that the South Sea islands have been peopled from Peru. Will you come?. . . answer at once." that's how six courageous and inquisitive males got here to hunt a deadly route to try a systematic conception. On a primitive raft made from forty-foot balsa logs and named "Kon-Tiki" in honor of a mythical solar king, Heyerdahl and 5 partners intentionally risked their lives to teach that the traditional Peruvians may have made the 4,300-mile voyage to the Polynesian islands on an analogous craft.

On each web page of this real chronicle—from the particular development of the raft via all of the risky and comedian adventures at the sea, to the astonishing crash-landing and the local islanders' hula dances—each reader will discover a healthy and spellbinding break out from the twenty-first century.

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Platón - Diálogos IV: República (Biblioteca clásica Gredos) by Platón, Conrado Eggers Lan, Alberto Del Pozo Ortiz, Carlos

By Platón, Conrado Eggers Lan, Alberto Del Pozo Ortiz, Carlos García Gual

La República es una asombrosa síntesis del pensamiento de madurez platónico (mundo de las Formas o principles, inmortalidad del alma, acceso a l. a. Forma del Bien mediante l. a. dialéctica reservada al filósofo) aplicada a los angeles teoría política y a l. a. organización del Estado ideal.
La República (título que el traductor acepta por respeto a los angeles tradición, no sin advertirnos que comunica muy mal el término griego politeía con el que Platón designa l. a. organización política) culmina l. a. concepción imperative que Platón expone en los demás diálogos «ideológicos» (Fedón, Banquete, Fedro) de su etapa de madurez o plenitud: l. a. teoría metafísica de las Formas o rules, con su jerarquía coronada por los angeles Forma del Bien; además aporta algunos elementos novedosos y esenciales para el devenir de los angeles filosofía y l. a. psicología griegas y occidentales: una teoría de l. a. ciencia, enfoques teológicos y antropológicos. Pero su tema important, el más conocido del diálogo, es los angeles concepción de los angeles sociedad excellent y el modo de organizarla, así como l. a. teoría pedagógica que lleva aparejada. Los diez libros que componen l. a. obra suelen dividirse en cinco partes:
el libro I, un diálogo socrático acerca de l. a. naturaleza de l. a. justicia: las diversas concepciones van desde el dominio del más fuerte hasta los angeles de excelencia del alma;
del II al IV, exposición del proyecto político platónico: el Estado sano, cuyos miembros cooperan entre sí, y l. a. educación necesaria para tal fin; pautas para l. a. poesía; beneficios educativos de los angeles gimnasia y l. a. música; clases sociales en el Estado perfect: gobernantes, soldados, labradores y artesanos; el Estado excellent posee las mismas partes y virtudes que el alma person, y debe coronarse con l. a. justicia, los angeles sabiduría, l. a. moderación y los angeles valentía;
del V al VII, los angeles sección más filosófica de l. a. obra: se tratan cuestiones como l. a. de l. a. naturaleza de l. a. mujer (que no es inferior a los angeles del hombre, lo que los angeles capacita para recibir los angeles misma educación y desempeñar las mismas tareas), los angeles comunidad en el Estado excellent de mujeres e hijos entre los guardianes gobernantes (no hay, pues, núcleo regularly occurring y todo se enfoca hacia el bien común), l. a. entronización de los filósofos, amantes del saber y de las principles o Formas, como gobernantes (puesto que son los que más pueden acercar el Estado genuine a su concepción ideal), las diferencias entre el verdadero filósofo y el que sólo remeda su apariencia, l. a. formación adecuada de los mejores jóvenes con vistas a su ejercicio como gobernantes y l. a. hermosa y famosísima alegoría de los angeles caverna sobre el engañoso mundo de las apariencias, las sombras y los angeles oscuridad y el luminoso mundo inteligible de las principles, coronado por l. a. Forma del Bien;el VIII y el IX, que analizan los diversos tipos de constituciones políticas, con su possible origen y desenlace; se pasa revista al único correcto, los angeles aristocracia, y a los cuatro deficientes: timocracia, oligarquía, democracia y tiranía.
el X, una suerte de apéndice sobre los angeles poesía y un mito escatológico que confirma lo que se ha dicho sobre las recompensas del justo y su alma inmortal; concluye con el mito de Er sobre el destino y el renacimiento de las almas.

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Ancient Greek Women in Film by Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos

By Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos

This quantity examines cinematic representations of historical Greek ladies from the geographical regions of delusion and heritage. It discusses how those woman figures are resurrected at the vast display through diversified filmmakers in the course of diversified ancient moments, and are consequently embedded inside of a story which serves quite a few reasons, looking on the director of the movie, its screenwriters, the studio, the rustic of its starting place, and the sociopolitical context on the time of its production.

Using a various array of hermeneutic techniques (such as gender idea, feminist feedback, psychoanalysis, viewer-response concept, and private voice criticism), the essays target to forged mild on cinema's investments within the classical earlier and decode the mechanisms wherein the ladies lower than exam are extracted from their unique context and are delivered to lifestyles to function automobiles for the articulation of contemporary rules, issues, and cultural traits. the quantity hence goals to enquire not just how antiquity at the display depicts, and during this method distorts, compresses, contests, and revises, antiquity at the web page but additionally, extra crucially, why the medium follows such eclectic representational concepts vis-a-vis the classical world.

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Isocrates, Volume I: To Demonicus, To Nicocles, Nicocles or by Isocrates, George Norlin

By Isocrates, George Norlin

The significance of Isocrates for the examine of Greek civilisation of the fourth century BCE is undeniable. From 403 to 393 he wrote speeches for Athenian legislations courts, after which grew to become a instructor of composition for would-be orators. After establishing a faculty of rhetoric in Chios he back to Athens and proven there a loose university of 'philosophia' related to a pragmatic schooling of the entire brain, personality, judgment, and mastery of language. this faculty had well-known students from all around the Greek global, comparable to the historians Ephorus and Theopompus and orators Isaeus, Lycurgus, and Hypereides. Isocrates additionally wrote in talented kind essays on political questions, his major proposal being a united Greece to overcome the Persian empire. therefore in his superb Panegyricus (written for the one centesimal Olympiad amassing in 380) he steered that the management can be granted to Athens, probably together with Sparta. in spite of everything he seemed to Philip of Macedon, yet died simply as Philip's supremacy in Greece begun. Twenty-one discourses by means of Isocrates continue to exist; those contain political essays, treatises on schooling and on ethics, and speeches for criminal instances. 9 letters also are extant; they're involved extra with public than with deepest issues. The Loeb Classical Library variation of Isocrates is in 3 volumes. quantity I comprises six discourses: To Demonicus, To Nicocles, Nicocles or The Cyprians, Panegyricus, To Philip, and Archidamus. 5 are in quantity II: Areopagiticus, at the Peace, Panathenaicus, opposed to the Sophists, Antidosis. quantity III comprises Evagoras, Helen, Busiris, Plataicus, about the crew of Horses, Trapeziticus, opposed to Callimachus, Aegineticus, opposed to Lochites, and opposed to Euthynus, in addition to the 9 extant letters and a finished index.

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The Annals of Imperial Rome by Cornelius Tacitus; Michael Grant

By Cornelius Tacitus; Michael Grant

Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the main historic occasions from the years almost immediately earlier than the dying of Augustus as much as the loss of life of Nero in advert sixty eight. With readability and shiny depth he describes the reign of terror lower than the corrupt Tiberius, the good hearth of Rome in the course of the time of Nero, and the wars, poisonings, scandals, conspiracies and murders that have been a part of imperial lifestyles. regardless of his declare that the  Read more...

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Philoponus: Against Proclus On the Eternity of the World by John Philoponus

By John Philoponus

In the most unique books of past due antiquity, Philoponus argues for the Christian view that topic will be created by means of God out of not anything. It wishes no previous subject for its production. whilst, Philoponus transforms Aristotle's belief of leading topic as an incorporeal 'something - i do know now not what' that serves because the final topic for receiving extension and characteristics. to the contrary, says Philoponus, the final word topic is extension. it really is three-d extension with its targeted dimensions and any traits unspecified. in addition, such extension is the defining attribute of physique. for this reason, to date from being incorporeal, it truly is physique, and in addition to being top topic, it's shape - the shape that constitutes physique. This makes use of, yet solely disrupts, Aristotle's conceptual equipment. ultimately, in Aristotle's scheme of different types, this extension isn't really to be labeled below the second one classification of volume, yet lower than the 1st type of substance as a considerable quantity.

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The Passions in Play: Thyestes and the Dynamics of Senecan by Alessandro Schiesaro

By Alessandro Schiesaro

This ebook matters the main entire and demanding of Seneca's tragedies Thyestes to the type of serious research now to be had for authors equivalent to Virgil, Ovid and Lucan. Drawing many insights from psychoanalytic concept, and up to date advances in post-Virgilian literary feedback, it additionally discusses a number of different performs of Seneca. the amount offers, for this reason, a close and accomplished research of the entire major topics and stylistic positive aspects of Seneca's tragedies. whereas stressing the significance of Thyestes in post-Classical aesthetics, the learn deals very important insights into authors similar to Ovid and Lucan in addition.

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The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Vol 1: Greek by P. E. Easterling

By P. E. Easterling

This sequence presents person textbooks on early Greek poetry, on Greek drama, on philosophy, historical past and oratory, and at the literature of the Hellenistic interval and of the Empire. A bankruptcy on books and readers within the Greek global concludes half four. each one half has its personal appendix of authors and works, an inventory of works stated, and an index.

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