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Socrates: A Very Short IntroductionOxford Very Short Introductions Socrates has a unique position in the history of philosophy; it is no exaggeration to say that had it not been for his influence on Plato, the whole development of Western philosophy might have been unimaginably different. Yet Socrates wrote nothing himself, and our knowledge of him is derived primarily from the engaging and infuriating figure who appears in Plato's dialogues. In this Very Short Introduction,

This invaluable new commentary on a central book of the poem explores Ovid's playful inversion of genre

powerful gods and goddesses

in order to investigate two levels of feminine experience in Classical Athens

testing their endurance

Στις σελίδες αυτού του βιβλίου θα βρεις πληροφορίες που μπορεί να σου φανούν αλλόκοτες

with examination of noteworthy textual cruces and problems of interpretation

gives some historical details and a description of the aqueducts for the water supply of the city

με μια τρυφερή φροντίδα θα ‘λεγες να μη γυμνώσει το παρελθόν

this work addresses modern adults who want to understand concepts fully as they learn

The selection has also been augmented with three hundred more lines of Greek text (Theocritus poems 5 and 15)

αν και χαμένες στο βάθος του χρόνου

In this first ever full-scale commentary in English