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| | 1. |  | The Laws (Penguin Classics)
from Penguin Classics
Price: $7.00
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I read this book as part of my research into Plato himself.
It's hard for me to see how relevant a book like this is today. Plato's world was very different than today. People owned slaves, there was no internet or mass communications, Christianity didn't even exist yet, etc..
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| | 3. | [no image] | Meditations
from Barnes & Noble Books
Price: $11.99
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What makes Meditations an important book is that it provides the opportunity to discuss what it is to be human, to have a soul, to live a good life with one of the most remarkable men in history.
Before I get to that I want to second a suggestion made by several reviewers. Use two or more... more info
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| | 5. |  | Thucydides: The Reinvention of History
from Viking Adult
Price: $16.28
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Undoubtedly Thucydides ranks among the greatest of historians. Indeed, he probably deserves to be recognized as the founder of modern history ("modern" in this case meaning a wide-ranging, fundamentally objective analysis of events). His great work on the Peloponnesian War is unmatched in its... more info
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| | 10. |  | The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
from Pantheon
Price: $26.89
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To me it is all about the maps. Reading other editions of Herodotus I would get lost all the time, but the maps in this edition are superb additions to the text and help keep me on track better. The prose is also pretty good with lots of good notes clarifying points of translation that have been... more info
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