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Serie: Hackett classics
PaperbackEngels9781603841801
15-3-2010
By exposing the perversion, repression, corruption, and injustice at the heart of Justinian's regime, Prokopios' "The Secret History" destroyed forever that emperor's reputation as the great and benevolent ruler of a vast Byzantine state. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781603841986
15-9-2011
A memoir of a life in the Qing dynasty. It reveals a sensitive and artistic man, who failed at the civil service examinations that were the gateway to official employment and had to settle for becoming an itinerant private secretary, dabbling unsuccessfully in making a living as an artist and a merchant. Meer
GebondenEngels9781603841993
15-9-2011
A memoir of a life in the Qing dynasty. It reveals a sensitive and artistic man, who failed at the civil service examinations that were the gateway to official employment and had to settle for becoming an itinerant private secretary, dabbling unsuccessfully in making a living as an artist and a merchant. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781603842907
15-3-2012
PaperbackEngels9781603843058
15-3-2011
A study of the Presocratics and Sophists. It offers a selection of fragments from these philosophical predecessors and contemporaries of Socrates. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781603843072
24-9-2010
A translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses". Meer
GebondenEngels9781603849012
15-3-2013
The first complete English translation by a single translator of Bedier's classic work, this volume is the only edition that provides ancillary materials to help the reader understand the history of the legend and Bedier's method in creating his classic retelling. Meer
GebondenEngels9781603845489
15-3-2012
A compilation of writings from the authors' debate - over free will and grace, and their respective efficacy for salvation that offers a fuller representation of the disputants' main arguments. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781603845953
15-3-2012
Discourse on Voluntary Servitude , which is both a key to understanding much of Montaigne and a major piece of early modern political thought. Meer
GebondenEngels9781603846196
15-9-2011
Features a classic poem, translated from Middle English. This title includes a translator's preface, sample lines from the original Middle English, and suggestions for further reading. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781603846202
12-9-2011
A chronicle and natural history of the Caribbean. It records experimental adoption of the sugar/African slavery complex that would come to characterise the Caribbean for two hundred years, to such disastrous effects. Meer
GebondenEngels9781603846219
12-9-2011
A chronicle and natural history of the Caribbean. It records experimental adoption of the sugar/African slavery complex that would come to characterise the Caribbean for two hundred years, to such disastrous effects. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781603846240
15-9-2011
A selection of myths at the heart of Roman mythology and literature that manages to relate many of the episodes in that world-historical march toward the Age of Augustus and accompanied by an Introduction that deftly sets them in their cosmological, theological, and Augustan contexts. Meer
GebondenEngels9781603846271
15-9-2011
Contains an Introduction, suggestions for further reading, a note on the translation, and an appendix on Zola's notes on Anzin. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781603846738
15-6-2012
Offers a translation of the author's most important political writings. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781624661228
15-3-2014
First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff 's Sophocles: Four Tragedies , this rivetingtranslation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctetes features a new Introduction by PaulWoodruff. Meer
GebondenEngels9781624661235
15-3-2014
First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff 's Sophocles: Four Tragedies , this rivetingtranslation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctetes features a new Introduction by PaulWoodruff. Meer