古代哲学者のソクラテスが活動したのは紀元前4世紀頃でしたが、哲学はそれ以前にも存在していました。近年発見された古代のパピルスに記された詩人エンペドクレスの詩をはじめ、信頼できる最新調査をもとに、ソクラテス以前の古代哲学者たちの思想をあざやかに描き出します。現実性の本質、時間、宇宙の起源などに対する古代哲学の取り組みに注目し、タレスからピュタゴラス、ヘラクレイトス、プロタゴラスなど、西洋初の哲学者た ... 続きを読む

As if someone were to hold up a lamp in the dark so that those with eyes could see - in exactly the same way Gotama has made the truth clear in various ways.' Gotama the Buddha, who lived the life of ... 続きを読む

Aeschylus is the first of the great Greek playwrights, and the four plays in this volume demonstrate the remarkable range of Greek tragedy. Persians is the only surviving tragedy to draw on contempora ... 続きを読む

The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern r ... 続きを読む

A fascinating guide to our language and its history. The principal authority on the origin and development of English words.   Where did the words bungalow and assassin&nb ... 続きを読む

Arden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of Edmonton * The English Traveller In about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary ... 続きを読む

We pretended we had each a large island inhabited by people 6 miles high.' In their collaborative early writings the Brontes created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geogra ... 続きを読む

He was atrocious in his brutality, but his lechery was kept hidden...In the end, he erupted into an orgy of crime and ignominy alike' Such is Tacitus' obituary of Tiberius, and he is no less caust ... 続きを読む

Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.' Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day by d ... 続きを読む

the glory of wealth and physical beauty is fluid and fragile; but virtue is held brilliant and eternal' The Roman historian Sallust lived through troubled times. He deplored the moral and politica ... 続きを読む