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Augustine: City of GodPenguin Classics St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of Christianity, and City of God is one of his greatest theological works. Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, it examines the ancient pagan religions of Rome, the arguments of the Greek philosophers and the revelations of the Bible. Pointing the way forward to a citizenship that transcends

as well as his letter to Fronto

Δεν χάνει το θάρρος του

How to Think about War presents the most influential and compelling of these speeches in an elegant new translation by classicist Johanna Hanink

Ο Τριβιζάς χρησιμοποιεί ζωντανές εικόνες και παιχνιδιάρικη γλώσσα

Ένα μικρό αλλά αντιπροσωπευτικό δείγμα του σπουδαίου συγγραφικού ταλέντου του απεικονίζεται με γλαφυρότητα στη συλλογή των παραμυθιών αυτού του βιβλίου

It scrutinises not only the standard historical context but also the literary and philosophical one

The Heirs of Plato is the first book exclusively devoted to an in-depth study of the various directions in philosophy taken by Plato's followers in the first seventy years or so following his death in 347 BC - the period generally known as 'The Old Academy'

Persius (AD 34–62) and Juvenal (writing about sixty years later) were heirs to the style of Latin verse satire developed by Lucilius and Horace

with new introductions setting the commentary in its context

the masculine concerns they display are inescapably symptomatic of the imperial present

με την οποία ευαγγελίζεται μια νέα θρησκεία

the eruption of Vesuvius

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