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HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Spring/Summer 1998 Books:

Classics
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BRIAN STOCK, AUGUSTINE THE READER, Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation
Augustine of Hippo, a central figure in the history of Western thought, is also the author of a theory of reading that has had a profound influence on Western letters from the ages of Petrarch, Montaigne, Luther, and Rousseau to Freud and our own time. Brian Stock provides the first full account of this theory within the evolution of Augustine's early dialogues, his "Confessions," and his systematic treatises.
Belknap Press March 1998
480 pages ISBN 0-674-05277-3 $18.95 / L12.50 paper First cloth edition: Fall 1995


CYNTHIA B. PATTERSON, THE FAMILY IN GREEK HISTORY
The family, Cynthia Patterson demonstrates, played a key role in the political changes that mark the history of ancient Greece. From the archaic society portrayed in Homer and Hesiod to the Hellenistic age, the private world of the family and household was integral with and essential to the civic realm. Undercutting common interpretations of Greek experience as evolving from clan to patriarchal state, Patterson's insightful analysis sheds new light on the role of men and women in Greek culture.
July 1998
6 diagrams / 304 pages ISBN 0-674-29270-7 $35.00 / L23.50 cloth

SHADI BARTSCH, IDEOLOGY IN COLD BLOOD, A Reading of Lucan's Civil War
Is Lucan's brilliant and grotesque epic "Civil War" an example of ideological poetry at its most flagrant, or is it a work that despairingly proclaims the meaninglessness of ideology? Shadi Bartsch offers a startlingly new answer to this split debate on the Roman poet's magnum opus in an analysis that draws on contemporary political thought as well as on literary theory and ancient sources,
February 1998
240 pages ISBN 0-674-44291-1 $45.00 / L29.95 cloth

PIERRE HADOT, THE INNER CITADEL The "Meditations" of Marcus Aurelius
Translated by Michael Chase
The "Meditations" of Marcus Aurelius are treasured today--as they have been over the centuries--as an inexhaustible source of wisdom. And as one of the three most important expressions of Stoicism, this is an essential text for everyone interested in ancient religion and philosophy. Yet the clarity and ease of the work's style are deceptive. Pierre Hadot, eminent historian of ancient thought, uncovers new levels of meaning and expands our understanding of its underlying philosophy.
June 1998
368 pages ISBN 0-674-46171-1 $45.00 / L29.95 cloth

PETER BROWN, LATE ANTIQUITY
In this history of the late antique period, which appeared earlier in the five-volume series "A History of Private Life," Peter Brown shows the slow shift from one form of public community to another--from the ancient city to the Christian church.
April 1998
60 halftones / 96 pages ISBN 0-674-51170-0 $10.00 / L6.50 paper

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