Microcosmographia Academica: Being a Guide for the Young Academic Politician

Cornford, Francis MacDonald

Bowes and Bowes

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Plato's Cosmology: The Timaeus of Plato (International Library of Philosophy)

History

Europe

Routledge

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Plato's Theory of Knowledge (International Library of Philosophy)

Plato's Cosmology (International Library of Philosophy)

Reference

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

The only full-scale study of the origin of Attic comedy.

The Origin of Attic Comedy (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Univ of Michigan Pr

The Origin of Attic Comedy was originally published in 1934. Its author, Francis Macdonald Cornford (1874-1943), was Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Beginning with Aristotle's observation that from the earliest stage Attic Comedy had 'certain definite forms', Cornford shows that these forms are clearly observable in the plays of Aristophanes and that they derived from a ritual drama common to both tragedy and comedy. Cornford was surprised by his own conclusions and his enquiries led him far from his original view that Aristophanic Comedy was composed of loosely connected and foreign sources. Combining a close examination of the eleven extant plays of Aristophanes and a broad treatment of the relationship between tragedy and comedy, this book will continue to merit review as a robust study of the origins of ancient Greek comedy.

The Origin of Attic Comedy

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

In this exploration of the "very first utterance of philosophers" F. M. Cornford showed that the remarkable burst of abstract speculation among pre-Socratic thinkers of the sixth century B.C. emerged directly from the religious thought of the preceding era in Greece. Combining profound classical scholarship with striking anthropological and sociological insight, Cornford rejected the post-Darwinian rationalist assumption that religion and philosophy are fundamentally different from each other. His book supplies a needed reminder of the intricate connections between critical scientific thought and social and emotional experience. As he probes the mythic antecedents of such persistent metaphysical concepts as Destiny, God, Soul, Substance, Nature, and Immortality, Cornford warns us that "unless we have some grasp of that history [of myth], we are not likely to understand the speculation, which, however scientific its spirit may be, constantly operates with these religious ideas, and is to a large extent confined in its movement within the limits already traced by them" Classicists, historians of religion, students of ancient history, and everyone concerned with the subject of myth will find this lucid and highly original work to be a source of rich insights about the organic nature and continuity of Western thought.

From Religion to Philosophy

Religion & Spirituality

Princeton University Press

Originally published in 1907.  This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.  All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

Thucydides' Mythistoricus

Ancient Civilizations

Routledge and Kegan Paul

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Plato's Cosmology: The Timaeus of Plato Translated with a Running Commentary

Plató

Kessinger Publishing

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