The Harvard Classics in a Year

The Harvard Classics in a Year
Author: Amanda Kennedy
Publisher: Amanda Kennedy
Total Pages: 3226
Release: 2014-10-08
Genre:
ISBN:

The Harvard Classics in 365 Days aims to provide a whirlwind tour of classic literature. By reading for just 15 minutes a day throughout the year, you can discover text from “twelve main divisions of knowledge” including History, Poetry, Natural Science, Philosophy, Biography, Prose Fiction, Criticism and the Essay, Education, Political Science, Drama, Voyages and Travel and Religion. Based on Dr. Eliot's “reading guide” for The Harvard Classics, a complete chapter of reading material is included for each day of the year (even February 29th, in case you are reading during a Leap Year): "These selections assigned for each day in the year as you will see, are introduced by comments on the author, the subjects or the chief characters. They will serve to introduce you in the most pleasant manner possible to the Harvard Classics. They will enable you to browse enjoyably among the world’s immortal writings with entertainment and stimulation in endless variety.." Each reading is framed by an introduction, a context in which the text can be read and understood, often with insightful information about the author, it's wider history, or why that particular selection is appropriate reading for that day.

The Classical Tradition

The Classical Tradition
Author: Anthony Grafton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 1188
Release: 2010-10-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674035720

The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science.

Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy

Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy
Author: John Rawls
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674042565

Constantly revised and refined over three decades, Rawls's lectures on various historical figures reflect his developing and changing views on the history of liberalism and democracy. With its careful analyses of the doctrine of the social contract, utilitarianism, and socialism, this volume has a critical place in the traditions it expounds.

Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936

Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936
Author: Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 538
Release: 1986-10-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780674888913

Samuel Eliot Morison sat down to tell the whole story of Harvard informally and briefly, with the same genial humor and ability to see the human implications of past events that characterize his larger, multi-volume series on Harvard.

Richer of Saint-Remi

Richer of Saint-Remi
Author: Justin Lake
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0813221250

Building upon, but also moving beyond, previous scholarship that has focused on Richer's political allegiances and his views of kingship, this study by Justin Lake provides the most comprehensive synthesis of the History, examining Richer's use and abuse of his sources, his relationship to Gerbert, and the motives that led him to write.

The Founders and the Classics

The Founders and the Classics
Author: Carl J. Richard
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1995-08-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674314269

The influence of Greek and Roman authors on our American forefathers finally becomes clear in this fascinating book—the first comprehensive study of the founders’ classical reading.

The Greek Classics

The Greek Classics
Author: Aldo Manuzio
Publisher: I Tatti Renaissance Library
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Classical literature
ISBN: 9780674088672

Aldus Manutius was the most innovative scholarly publisher of the Renaissance. This ITRL edition contains all of his prefaces to his editions of the Greek classics, translated for the first time into English. They provide unique insight into the world of scholarly publishing in Renaissance Venice.