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The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote down his thoughts between
170 and 180. He was a late Stoic Philosopher and this one of the
few examples of this type of literature that exists today. The book
is written as personal notes to himself and his thesis is that one
can obtain inner calm irrespective of outer adversity. The text
considers good and evil, solidarity, adversity and inner freedom.
It is a book that offers wisdom, comfort and inspiration. As well
as the thought, this edition contains a biographical sketch and
summary of the philosophy of Marcus Aurelius, a number of
illustrations and both an index and index of terms.
The philosophical thoughts of Emperor Marcus Aurelius are presented
here in a superb reprint, brimming with the intellect and sincerity
of the author. Known for his tolerance and benevolence, Marcus
Aurelius was the only Emperor to tolerate satire of his own
character. As a ruler he was renowned for sound judgment, respected
for both his military successes and for his wise, measured
governance. Such deeds were derived from his education; a lifelong
admirer of the Greek philosophers, Aurelius developed his own,
unique interpretation of Stoicism which is encapsulated in this
text. Though Aurelius was the final of the `Five Good Emperors',
the precepts of his Meditations would be consulted by rulers -
Roman and otherwise - for millennia to follow. While Rome
experienced decline and chaos, its historians and scholars
remembered Marcus Aurelius as a pinnacle of competence.
The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote down his thoughts between
170 and 180. He was a late Stoic Philosopher and this one of the
few examples of this type of literature that exists today. The book
is written as personal notes to himself and his thesis is that one
can obtain inner calm irrespective of outer adversity. The text
considers good and evil, solidarity, adversity and inner freedom.
It is a book that offers wisdom, comfort and inspiration. As well
as the thought, this edition contains a biographical sketch and
summary of the philosophy of Marcus Aurelius, a number of
illustrations and both an index and index of terms.
These forty-one tales written in the second century AD by Greek
author Antoninus Liberalis and translated from the Greek for the
first time, offer an unusual insight into the preoccupations and
legends of antiquity. These tales are quirky, exciting and
sometimes disturbing. Many have relevance for modern as well as
classical understanding of psychology and the imagination. Each
story is usefully provided with full annotation and commentary.
Legends which told of the transformation of men and women, heroes
and nymphs, into animals, stars, plants, fountains and rocks, were
widespread and of deep significance for people in the classical
world. This collection of 41 Greek myths and legends by Antoninus
Liberalis, here translated into English for the first time, is a
unique source of such tales. The manner of the narrative, laconic
as well as picaresque, adds relish to their oddity. The variant of
the story of Cephalus and Procris where the heroine practices sex
therapy on King Minos, the transformation of the arrogant musician
Cerambus into a champing beetle, the change of Hylas into an echo
that rang through real communities and landscapes for over a
millenium, the numerous consequences of rape, incest, mockery or
heedlessness: all these offer food for psychological speculation as
well as for narrative pleasure. Many of the tales would have
startled Freud or puzzled Jung. The commentary, which is fuller
than that usually supplied with most translations, furnishes
parallels and explanatory materials to help those who wish to
follow a tale through its numerous contexts and ramifications. This
book should be of interest to
Volume I of a two-volume scholarly edition of the Meditations of
the Emperor Marcus Antoninus by A.S.L. Farquharson. The edition
presents an authoritative text, together with a translation, an
introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
Volume II of a two-volume scholarly edition of the Meditations of
the Emperor Marcus Antoninus by A.S.L. Farquharson. The edition
presents an authoritative text, together with a translation, an
introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
The permanent building societies of England grew from humble
beginnings as a multitude of small and localized institutions in
the nineteenth century to become the dominant players in the house
mortgage market by the inter-war period. Throughout the nineteenth
and early-twentieth centuries, the movement cultivated an image of
being a champion of home ownership for the working classes, but
housing historians have questioned whether building societies
really lived up to this claim. This study fills a major gap in the
historiography of the movement by investigating the class profile
of building society members, and how the design of different
building societies affected their accessibility, efficiency, and
risk-taking practices between 1880 and 1939. These themes are
explored using case studies of several building societies from this
period and drawing upon extensive archival records. The Building
Society Promise shows that building societies did lend to
working-class households before the First and Second World Wars,
with some societies showing a greater commitment to working-class
home ownership than others. What ultimately affected the outreach
of individual societies was the quality of information they
possessed, which in turn was largely determined by the types of
agency networks they used to find and select borrowers. The
phenomenal growth of some of these institutions in the inter-war
period, however, and the ensuing competition which emerged between
them, brought about profound changes in their firm structure which
impaired their ability to reach out to lower-income households as
efficiently as before. The findings of this research are relevant
to both past and present debates about the optimal design of
financial institutions in overcoming social exclusion in credit
markets, and the deleterious effects that firm growth, market
competition, and managerial self-interest can have on their
performance and stability.
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