Lucretius seneca (29 risultati)

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Hardback. Condizione: New. A grimly entertaining anthology of ancient Greek and Roman writings about how to fearlessly prepare for the end of the world and other disastersA remarkable percentage of people believe we are living in the end times, according to pollsters. Between the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, AI, and other existential threats, it's easy to see why. How should we think about the apocalypse? How can we mentally prepare for doomsday and other disasters? This anthology presents ancient Greek and Roman writings about the end of the world-from the poet Hesiod and his prediction that Zeus will destroy humanity to philosophers such as Plato, Lucretius, Seneca, and Epictetus, who viewed the end of the world as an inevitable and regular process of nature and the cosmos. These writers-the original doomscrollers-show how thinking about the annihilation of civilization or the planet can be instructive and healthy, and they seek to teach readers how to face catastrophe without fear.Featuring fresh new translations and an introduction, as well as the original Greek and Latin texts on facing pages, this collection presents stories and ideas that are both familiar and unfamiliar. Here, Plato invents the tale of Atlantis to illustrate the idea that civilization is periodically wiped out by natural disasters, the Epicureans envision total planetary destruction in a universe guided by natural laws, the Stoics theorize that the cosmos is repeatedly consumed by its "creative fire" and then reborn, and much more.Along the way, we discover the ancient roots of modern doomsday prepping and postapocalyptic fiction. But most of all, we learn how thinking about the end of the world can be oddly reassuring and improve how we live today. …

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Hardback. Condizione: New. A grimly entertaining anthology of ancient Greek and Roman writings about how to fearlessly prepare for the end of the world and other disastersA remarkable percentage of people believe we are living in the end times, according to pollsters. Between the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, AI, and other existential threats, it's easy to see why. How should we think about the apocalypse? How can we mentally prepare for doomsday and other disasters? This anthology presents ancient Greek and Roman writings about the end of the world-from the poet Hesiod and his prediction that Zeus will destroy humanity to philosophers such as Plato, Lucretius, Seneca, and Epictetus, who viewed the end of the world as an inevitable and regular process of nature and the cosmos. These writers-the original doomscrollers-show how thinking about the annihilation of civilization or the planet can be instructive and healthy, and they seek to teach readers how to face catastrophe without fear.Featuring fresh new translations and an introduction, as well as the original Greek and Latin texts on facing pages, this collection presents stories and ideas that are both familiar and unfamiliar. Here, Plato invents the tale of Atlantis to illustrate the idea that civilization is periodically wiped out by natural disasters, the Epicureans envision total planetary destruction in a universe guided by natural laws, the Stoics theorize that the cosmos is repeatedly consumed by its "creative fire" and then reborn, and much more.Along the way, we discover the ancient roots of modern doomsday prepping and postapocalyptic fiction. But most of all, we learn how thinking about the end of the world can be oddly reassuring and improve how we live today. …

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Hardcover. Condizione: New.

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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Hardback. Condizione: New. A grimly entertaining anthology of ancient Greek and Roman writings about how to fearlessly prepare for the end of the world and other disastersA remarkable percentage of people believe we are living in the end times, according to pollsters. Between the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, AI, and other existential threats, it's easy to see why. How should we think about the apocalypse? How can we mentally prepare for doomsday and other disasters? This anthology presents ancient Greek and Roman writings about the end of the world-from the poet Hesiod and his prediction that Zeus will destroy humanity to philosophers such as Plato, Lucretius, Seneca, and Epictetus, who viewed the end of the world as an inevitable and regular process of nature and the cosmos. These writers-the original doomscrollers-show how thinking about the annihilation of civilization or the planet can be instructive and healthy, and they seek to teach readers how to face catastrophe without fear.Featuring fresh new translations and an introduction, as well as the original Greek and Latin texts on facing pages, this collection presents stories and ideas that are both familiar and unfamiliar. Here, Plato invents the tale of Atlantis to illustrate the idea that civilization is periodically wiped out by natural disasters, the Epicureans envision total planetary destruction in a universe guided by natural laws, the Stoics theorize that the cosmos is repeatedly consumed by its "creative fire" and then reborn, and much more.Along the way, we discover the ancient roots of modern doomsday prepping and postapocalyptic fiction. But most of all, we learn how thinking about the end of the world can be oddly reassuring and improve how we live today. …

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 736 pages. 6.00x1.82x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 736 pages. 6.00x1.94x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardback. Condizione: New. A grimly entertaining anthology of ancient Greek and Roman writings about how to fearlessly prepare for the end of the world and other disastersA remarkable percentage of people believe we are living in the end times, according to pollsters. Between the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, AI, and other existential threats, it's easy to see why. How should we think about the apocalypse? How can we mentally prepare for doomsday and other disasters? This anthology presents ancient Greek and Roman writings about the end of the world-from the poet Hesiod and his prediction that Zeus will destroy humanity to philosophers such as Plato, Lucretius, Seneca, and Epictetus, who viewed the end of the world as an inevitable and regular process of nature and the cosmos. These writers-the original doomscrollers-show how thinking about the annihilation of civilization or the planet can be instructive and healthy, and they seek to teach readers how to face catastrophe without fear.Featuring fresh new translations and an introduction, as well as the original Greek and Latin texts on facing pages, this collection presents stories and ideas that are both familiar and unfamiliar. Here, Plato invents the tale of Atlantis to illustrate the idea that civilization is periodically wiped out by natural disasters, the Epicureans envision total planetary destruction in a universe guided by natural laws, the Stoics theorize that the cosmos is repeatedly consumed by its "creative fire" and then reborn, and much more.Along the way, we discover the ancient roots of modern doomsday prepping and postapocalyptic fiction. But most of all, we learn how thinking about the end of the world can be oddly reassuring and improve how we live today. …

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Modern Library. New York. 1934. 516 pages. First Modern Library Edition stated; first printing. Book is bright, tight and clean, inside and out. Binding and hinges are sound. Endpapers are bright and clean. Original DJ with price-clipped flap. DJ has one tiny chip on lower front, otherwise fine. First Modern Library Edition stated, in its original DJ. Fine/NF.…

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st thus 2003. Slightly better than very good condition with no wrapper. Contains 5 separate volumes in one slipcase. 1) Lucretius: On The Nature of Things; 2) Plato: Republic; 3) Aristotle: Ethics; 4) Cicero: On The Good LIfe; 5) Seneca: Letters form A Stoic. Prefaces by A.C. Grayling. Brown leather spines with gilt titles. Pictorial paper boards. B/w frontispiece engravings by Simon Brett. Top edges dark brown. A lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase whcih is scuffed, wear to lower edges, top of slipcase paper covering boards is starting to lift at edges, slight fading to one side. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Brett, Simon (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st. First Folio Society edition. Includes Aristotle's Ethics, Cicero's On the Good Life, Lucretius' On the Nature of Things, Plato's Republic, and Seneca's Letters from a Stoic. All volumes feature gorgeous frontispiece engravings by Simon Brett, replicated on the covers. Bound in quarter black leather stamped in gilt, with boards wrapped in Brett's illustrations. Comes in a matching brown board slipcase stamped in gilt. Various translators. Volumes include introductions, prefaces, notes, appendices, suggestions for further reading. A spectacular set in excellent condition. 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches.…

Kl.-Oktav (170 x 125 mm), goldgeprägtes Orig.-Halbleder mit marmorierten Bezügen, von minimalen Bereibungen der Kapitale und der Bezüge an den Deckelkanten abgesehen, frisches und dekorativ gebundenes Exemplar in den Orig.-Verlagseinbänden, wohlerhaltenes Exemplar. [Langenscheidtsche Bibliothek sämtlicher griechischer und römischer Klassiker.; 1-110]. - Komplettes Exemplar aller 110 erschienenen Bände, die sich wie folgt verteilen: Bd. 1: Aeschylos (ed. Johann Jakob Christian Donner); Bd. 2: Aesop (ed. Wilhelm Binder); Hesiod (ed. Eduard Eyth); Quintus (ed. Johann Jakob Christian Donner); Bd. 3: Anakreon (ed. Eduard Mörike); Theognis (ed. Wilhelm Binder); Theokrit (ed. Eduard Mörike, Friedrich Notter); Bd. 4: Anthologie (ed. Gottlob Regis); Bd. 5-8: Aristophanes (ed. Johannes Minckwitz); Bd. 9-13: Euripides (ed. Johannes Minckwitz, Wilhelm Binder); Bd. 14-15: Homer (ed. Johann Jakob Christian Donner); Bd. 16: Pindar (ed. Carl Friedrich Schnitzer); Bd. 17-19: Sophokles (ed. Adolf Schöll); Bd. 20-26: Aristoteles (ed. Adolf Stahr, Hermann Bender, Anton Karsch u. a.); Bd. 27: Arrian (ed. Karl Cleß); Bd. 28: Demosthenes (ed. Anton Westermann); Bd. 29: Diodor (ed. Adolf Wahrmund); Bd. 30: Epiktet (ed. Karl Conz); Mark Aurel (ed. Karl Cleß); Theophrast (ed. Wilhelm Binder); Bd. 31: Heliodor (ed. Theodor Fischer); Herodian (ed. Adolf Stahr); Bd. 32-33: Herodot (ed. Johann Christian Felix Bähr); Bd. 34: Isokrates (ed. Theodor Flathe, Wilhelm Binder); Lykurgos (ed. Hermann Bender); Lysias (ed. Anton Westermann, Wilhelm Binder); Bd. 35-36: Lucian (ed. Theodor Fischer); Bd. 37-38: Pausanias (ed. Johann Heinrich Christian Schubart); Bd. 39-42: Plato (ed. Carl von Prantl, Eduard Eyth, Carl Conz, Karl Christian Planck, Wilhelm Gaupp); Bd. 43-48: Plutarch (ed. Eduard Eyth); Bd. 49-51: Polybios (ed. Adolf Haakh, Reinhard Gregor Kratz); Bd. 52-55: Strabo (ed. Albert Forbiger); Bd. 56-57: Thukydides (ed. Adolf Wahrmund); Bd. 58-61: Xenophon (ed. Adolf Zeising, Julius Wilhelm Helferich Rieckher, Albert Forbiger, Christian Heinrich Dörner); Bd. 62: Catull (ed. Friedrich Pressel); Horaz (ed. Wilhelm Binder); Bd. 63: Juvenalis (ed. Alexander Berg); Bd. 64: Lucanus (ed. Julius Krais); Bd. 65: Lucretius (ed. Wilhelm Binder); Persius (ed. Wilhelm Binder); Phädrus (ed. Johannes Siebelis); Bd. 66: Martialis (ed. Alexander Berg); Bd. 67-69: Ovid (ed. Reinhart Suchier, Ernst Klussmann, Alexander Berg); Bd. 70-73: Plautus (ed. Wilhelm Binder); Bd. 74: Propertius (ed. Johann Friedrich Jacob, Wilhelm Binder); Statius (ed. Karl Wilhelm Bindewald); Tibullus (ed. Wilhelm Binder); Bd. 75: Terentius (ed. Johannes Herbst); Bd. 76: Virgilius (ed. Wilhelm Binder); Bd. 77: Cäsar (ed. Hermann Köchly & Oberst Wilhelm Rüstow); Bd. 78-93: Cicero (ed. Karl Ludwig Friedrich Mezger, Wilhelm Binder); Bd. 94: Cornelius Nepos (ed. Johannes Siebelis); Eutropius (ed. Albert Forbiger); Quintilian (ed. Hermann Bender); Bd. 95: Curtius (ed. Johannes Siebelis); Bd. 96: Justinus (ed. Albert Forbiger); Bd. 97-101: Livius (ed. Franz Dorotheus Gerlach); Bd. 102: Plinius (ed. Ernst Klussmann, Wilhelm Binder); Bd. 103: Sallustius (ed. Karl Cleß); Bd. 104-105: Seneca (ed. Albert Forbiger); Bd. 106: Sueton (ed. Adolf Stahr); Bd. 107-108: Tacitus (ed. Karl Ludwig Roth); Bd. 109: Vellejus (ed. Franz Eyssenhardt); Victor (ed. Albert Forbiger); Bd. 110: Vitruvius (ed. Franz von Reber). - [00B | SOD | oR ] 60000 g.…

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