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As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with...

In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named...

Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defended...

Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and...

Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era,...

'Nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death'

The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and...

In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their...

The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy - the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and...

'I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement; for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater...

Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever...

One of the foundation-stones of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes' Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings is translated from...

This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for...

A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks among the most eloquent and...

One of the central texts of the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend deeply influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained...

During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of...

Aristotle's probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, The Metaphysics is one of the classical Greek...

Before publishing the sensuous and scandalous poems of Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) had already earned respect...

Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the...

Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist...

Unfinished at the time of Marx's death in 1883 and first published with a preface by Frederick Engels in 1894, the third volume...

The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital...

'A groundbreaking work of economic analysis. It is also a literary masterpice' Francis Wheen, Guardian

One of the most...

In these two devastating late works, Nietzsche offers a powerful attack on the morality and the beliefs of his...

With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill...

Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries...

This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their...

In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man’s natural happiness and...

Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain....

Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political...

Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. But while his treatise The...