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Books narrated by Edith Hall

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  • 關於人生，你可以問問亞里斯多德：不做決定，等於讓別人決定你。幸福，是有意識的思考、選擇和行動。【暢銷典藏版】

    Aristotle’s Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life

    by Edith Hall ...
    Translated by 鄭淑芬 ...
    Series series Mentor
    你無法保證自己所做的決定一定正確，但你能保證的是，你為了這個決定所做的準備，可以最大化成功和幸福的機會。想要得到幸福，就必須為自己的「做」與「不做」負起責任。★人文社科佳評作 ★暢銷萬冊典藏版十場人生相談，將哲思提問融入現代日常，引領你探索生命路標、掌穩心之舵向。　　〈極端價值充斥的現世，最適合參照的「中道」實踐智慧〉　　「做對的事」，其實沒那麼了不起……　　◎說什麼「要有勇氣」？　　只是面對你害怕的事物，訓練自己不要那麼害怕。**　　◎說什麼「實踐正義」？**　　只是決定公平對待他人、負起該負的責任，同時幫助大家發揮人類潛能，包括你自己。**　　◎說什麼「決心自制」？**　　只是想清... ... Read more

    9,04 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wat zou Aristoteles doen?

    Hoe oude filosofie je leven kan veranderen

    by Edith Hall ...
    In 'Wat zou Aristoteles doen' maakt Edith Hall duidelijk hoe Aristoteles ideeën juist nu kunnen dienen als kompas voor een betrokken en gelukkig leven. Ze combineert hiervoor ethiek en joie de vivre en haalt verrassende, onderbelichte kanten van Aristoteles leven naar voren en verbindt zijn filosofie met onze eigen levens. Aristoteles is dé filosoof voor wie een goed en gelukkig wil leven. In een ... Read more

    13,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introducing the Ancient Greeks

    From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind

    by Edith Hall ...
    "Wonderful…a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours." —Natalie Haynes, IndependentThe ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, ... Read more

    10,91 €

  • Sophocles

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Edith Hall ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian. Placing his plays within their historical context, and explaining the conventions of ancient Greek tragic theatre, Edith Hall spotlights their distinctive features-tight plots, titanic personalities, lucid ... Read more

    7,19 €

  • Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature

    by Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha, Edith Hall ...
    The 24 essays collected in this book address the complex interactions between concepts of time, grammatical tense, and type of genre of prose or poetry in ancient Greek literature. The chronological scope stretches across nearly a millennium from archaic epic to the Second Sophistic, from the emotional intensity of Homer to Plutarch and the playfulness of Lucian, tracing patterns, developments, ... Read more

    125,60 €

  • The Arts of Leading

    Perspectives from the Humanities and the Liberal Arts

    by Joy Connolly, Edith Hall, Noah Lopez, Alan Mittleman, Tahera Qutbuddin, Marla Frederick, John Miles, Kristin Bezio, Paul Escott, Thavolia Glymph, David Lubin, Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw, Pegram Harrison, Melissa Jones Briggs, Corey Walker ...
    A deeply insightful approach to cultivating leaders of character centered on the arts and humanitiesWhat does it mean to lead? Whom do we consider to be leaders? And how might viewing leadership through the many lenses of the humanities expand our understanding of how it is imagined, represented, and enacted?Drawing on insights from eminent scholars in the classics, philosophy, religion, ... Read more

    26,38 €

  • Classical Encounters in England's North East

    Edited by Edith Hall, Rory McInnes-Gibbons, Edmund Thomas ...
    This is the first book to explore the history of ancient Greek and Roman influences and reception in England’s North East, topics which have often transcended social boundaries dictated by working identity, class, religion, gender, and ethnicity.Together, the chapters cover a broad range of themes and topics from architecture, theatre, working-class education, poetry, post-war novels and Hadrian's ... Read more

    59,51 €

  • Aristotle’s Way

    How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life

    by Edith Hall ...
    ‘Wonderful and timely … Hugely recommended’ STEPHEN FRYWhat do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think…Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker yet he was preoccupied by an ordinary question: how to be happy. In this handbook to his timeless teachings, Professor Edith Hall shows how ancient thinking is precisely what we need today, even if you don’t ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • Facing Down the Furies

    Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me

    by Edith Hall ...
    An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselvesIn Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arrives to report that Jocasta, queen of Thebes, has killed herself. To prepare listeners for this terrible news, he announces, “The tragedies that hurt the most are those that ... Read more

    19,28 €

  • Los griegos antiguos

    Translated by Daniel Najmías Bentolila ...
    by Edith Hall ...
    Los griegos antiguos: un riguroso, a la vez que ameno, estudio sobre las características que definieron a los pueblos de la Grecia antigua y su influencia en la formación de la sociedad occidental moderna.Los griegos antiguos, con el estudio de las diez características de este grupo de pueblos que tanto contribuyeron a modelar el mundo moderno, es una detallada y ví-vida exploración de los dos ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra

    by Sophocles ...
    Translated by H. D. F. Kitto ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles's reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years. His greatest ... Read more

    5,39 €

  • El camí d'Aristòtil

    by Edith Hall ...
    Translated by Anna Llisterri ...
    El camí d’Aristòtil mostra la manera com una escola de pensament ens pot ajudar a assolir l’eudaimonia: la felicitat que consisteix a desenvolupar plenament el nostre potencial.Al segle IV aC, Aristòtil funda a Atenes la seva escola, una versió millorada de l’Acadèmia platònica, on ell mateix havia estudiat. Des d’aquell nou Liceu, centre de formació dels futurs pensadors clàssics, va saber ... Read more

    10,99 €