A Rulebook for Arguments is a succinct introduction to the art of writing and assessing arguments, organized around specific rules, each illustrated and explained soundly but briefly. This widely popular primer–translated into eight languages–remains the first choice in all disciplines for writers who seek straightforward guidance about how to assess arguments and how to cogently construct them.The fourth …
Ovid’s Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo’s bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and literature that is too often treated, even by poets, as a mere vehicle for the scores of myths it recasts and transmits rather than as a unified work of art with epic-scale ambitions of its own. Such misconceptions are …
This volume is designed as a companion to the standard undergraduate mythology textbooks or, when assigned alongside the central Greek and Roman works, as a source-based alternative to those textbooks.In addition to the complete texts of the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod’s Theogony, this collection provides generous selections from over 50 texts composed between the Archaic Age and the …
Like the first Hackett edition of the Augustine’s Confessions, the second edition features F. J. Sheed’s remarkable translation of this classic spiritual autobiography with an Introduction by noted historian of late antiquity Peter Brown. New to this edition are a wealth of notes on literary, philosophical, biblical, historical, and liturgical topics by Michael P. Foley, an Editor’s Preface, …