Author: F. W. Walbank
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: lectures, classical, sather, polybius
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1990-02-07
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520069811
ISBN-13: 9780520069817
As a young man, the historian Polybius was an active politician in the Achaean Confederacy of the second century B.C., and later, during his detention at Rome, became a close friend of some leading Roman families. His History is our most important source for the momentous half-century during which the Romans weathered the war with Hannibal and became masters of the Mediterranean world. F. W. Walbank describes the historical traditions within which Polybius wrote as well as his concept of history.
Author: M. I. Finley
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: lectures, classical, sather, economy, ancient
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520219465
ISBN-13: 9780520219465
"Technical progress, economic growth, productivity, even efficiency have not been significant goals since the beginning of time," declares M. I. Finley in his classic work. The states of the ancient Mediterranean world had no recognizable real- property market, never fought a commercially inspired war, witnessed no drive to capital formation, and assigned the management of many substantial enterprises to slaves and ex- slaves. In short, to study the economies of the ancient world, one must begin by discarding many premises that seemed self-evident before Finley showed that they were useless or
Author: M.I. Finley
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: lectures, classical, sather, economy, ancient
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 1973-09-25
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0520024362
ISBN-13: 9780520024366
"Technical progress, economic growth, productivity, even efficiency have not been significant goals since the beginning of time," declares M. I. Finley in his classic work. The states of the ancient Mediterranean world had no recognizable real-property market, never fought a commercially inspired war, witnessed no drive to capital formation, and assigned the management of many substantial enterprises to slaves and ex-slaves. In short, to study the economies of the ancient world, one must begin by discarding many premises that seemed self-evident before Finley showed that they were useless or m
Author: E. R. Dodds
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: lectures, classical, sather, irrational, greeks
Number of Pages: 335
Published: 2004-06-16
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520242300
ISBN-13: 9780520242302
In this philosophy classic, which was first published in 1951, E. R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology and psychology, Dodds asks, "Why should we attribute to the ancient Greeks an immunity from ’primitive’ modes of thought which we do not find in any society open to our direct observation?" Praised by reviewers as "an event in modern Greek scholarship" and "a book which it would be difficult to over-praise," The Greeks and the Irrational was Volume 25 of the Sather Classical Lectures
Authors:Carol Loss, Mary Lou Sather,
Publisher: Xulon Press
Keywords: gift, special
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2006-06-28
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1600342701
ISBN-13: 9781600342707
Author: Bernard Williams
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: lectures, vol, classical, sather, necessity, shame
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 1994-10-19
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0520088301
ISBN-13: 9780520088306
We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness. Bernard Williams’s original and radical book questions this picture of Western history. While we are in many ways different from the Greeks, Williams claims that the differences are not to be traced to a shift in these basic conceptions of ethical life. We are more like the ancients than we are prepared to acknowledge, and only when this is understood can we properly grasp our most important
Author: Bernard Williams
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: lectures, classical, sather, necessity, shame
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-04-15
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0520256433
ISBN-13: 9780520256439
We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness. Bernard Williams’s original and radical book questions this picture of Western history. While we are in many ways different from the Greeks, Williams claims that the differences are not to be traced to a shift in these basic conceptions of ethical life. We are more like the ancients than we are prepared to acknowledge, and only when this is understood can we properly grasp our most important
