Peter J. Ahrensdorf

Gebundenes Buch

Homer on the Gods and Human Virtue

Beschreibung

Seeks to restore Homer to his rightful place among the principal figures in political and moral philosophy.

Autor

Peter J. Ahrensdorf is the James Sprunt Professor of Political Science and an affiliated professor of classics at Davidson College, North Carolina. He is the author of Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy: Rationalism and Religion in Sophocles' Theban Plays (2009) and The Death of Socrates and the Life of Philosophy: An Interpretation of Plato's Phaedo (1995); the coauthor of Justice among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power and Peace (with Thomas L. Pangle, 1999); and the cotranslator of Sophocles' Theban Plays (with Thomas L. Pangle, 2013). He is also the author of many articles and essays on Plato, Thucydides, Hobbes, Sophocles, Sarmiento, and Homer. Ahrensdorf has received a Fulbright scholarship to study and teach in Argentina, two National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, five Earhart Foundation fellowship research grants, a Boswell Faculty fellowship, and the Hunter-Hamilton Love of Teaching Award from Davidson College.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780521193887
• ISBN-10: 0521193885
• Artikelnr.: 41129295