"The Ancient Shore transports readers to a time when the ancient shore was an unpredictable, formidable place that left an indelible mark on Hellenistic societies -- on trade, conquest, science, philosophy, literature, and religion. Focusing on the ancient Mediterranean and West Asia, Kosmin argues that coastlines, as sites of cross-cultural contact and natural confrontation, played an integral role in the rise of a greater historical and individual consciousness."--
"A groundbreaking history of philosophy and punishment, The Prison before the Panopticon traces the influence of ancient political philosophy on the modern institution of the prison, showing how prevailing theories of carceral rehabilitation and common justifications for the denial of liberty developed in classical and early modern thought."--
Wie könnte ein gerechter Staat aussehen? Wie eine gerechte Gesellschaft? In seiner "Politeia" entwirft Platon einen Idealstaat: Männer und Frauen der herrschenden Klasse sind gleichberechtigt, es gibt weder Heirat noch Familie oder persönlichen Besitz, alle Kinder werden gemeinsam erzogen, eine kultivierte Elite wacht über Recht und Ordnung, und Philosophen lenken die Staatsgeschicke. Nicht das persönliche Glück ist das Ziel, sondern das Wohl des Staates.
"Offers intermediate Greek students a reliable, up-to-date introduction to Plato's most influential work. Plato's Greek is not difficult, but his ideas have generated considerable controversy. Book I serves as a dramatic introduction to them, with its memorable confrontation between Socrates and the sophist Thrasymachus over the nature of justice"--
"This is an anthology of private funerary poems in Greek from the archaic period until later antiquity. The vast majority of these poems were inscribed on tombs or grave stelai and served to identify, celebrate and mourn the dead. It is not in fact very difficult to distinguish such 'funerary' poems from other types of inscription, even if there are important overlaps in style and subject between, say, some honorific and some epitaphic verse-inscriptions; what can be much more difficult, however, is to distinguish 'public' from 'private' inscriptions, and indeed to decide what, if anything, is at stake in the distinction and how that distinction changed over time. Our earliest verse epitaphs seem to be 'private', in the sense that, as far as we can tell, they were designed and erected by the family of the deceased. For the fifth century, however, our evidence is predominantly Attic, and, from the first three-quarters of the century in particular, we have very few clearly 'private' such inscriptions, as opposed to those either sponsored or displayed (or both) by public authorities; this was the age of public burials and public commemorations in polyandry or 'multiple tombs', which (quite literally) embodied the spirit of public service demanded of male citizens. 'Private' poems too, of course, reflected the ideology of the city in which they were displayed, and we must not assume that a 'public-private' distinction mapped exactly on to some ancient equivalent of a modern 'official-unofficial' one. 'Private' inscriptions, for example, might need 'public' blessing to be erected in a particularly prominent place or even to use a particular language of praise."--
