There are thirty-one literary texts, of which seven are new (one of elegiacs by Archilochus, a fragment of a Doric lyric, a Hellenistic elegy on metamorphoses, a text with musical notation, three hexameter texts in epic tradition including a new Argonautic..
Conservatives such as former National Endowment for the Humanities chairman William Bennett and his successor Lynn Cheney held up the Greek philosopher Aristotle as the model of a public-spirited, virtue-centered civic educator. But according to the contri..
Recently a simple transformation has been introduced, applicable to quite a large class
of dynamical systems, that yields autonomous systems which are isochronous. This justifies the notion that isochronous systems are not rare.
In this book the procedure..
During recent decades, levels of global wealth have grown at an impressive rate but at the same time inequalities in wealth distribution and the gap between the rich and the poor have also increased significantly. While some people take the enjoyment of co..
For the first time in three decades, Stevens looks back on his long life of service and finds himself confronting the dark undercurrent in the life of his previous employer, Lord Darlington, and his own conflicted relationship with the housekeeper, Miss Ke..
The commentary reveals Isocrates'' strategies in advertising his own political rhetoric as a middle way between amoral ''sophistic'' education and the abstruse studies of Plato''s Academy. Introductory chapters situa..
Ishiguro poses many questions about the path of scientific progress, its purpose and rationale, as well as its potential choices and consequences. Never Let Me Go explores the nature of the human soul and its role as the essential characteristic of being h..
