Socrates

She resisted pressure from Robin Baird-Smith to change the title, which refers to Plato 's Socratic dialogue on the nature of love.

CFC 's Small Books on Great Subjects this year included two titles on Greek philosophy: the first running to the time of Pericles , the second from the time of Socrates to that of Christ

These fifth and sixth books, A Brief View of Greek Philosophy up to the Age of Pericles, and A Brief View of Greek Philosophy from the Age of Socrates to the Coming of Christ

The publisher was Knott . The title-page quotes Socrates and Burns . The work is dedicated to the Rev. John Disney . MH 's sister, Eliza or Elizabeth, contributed two Moral Essays. Mary Wollstonecraft

Andrew Cruikshank spoke as Socrates and Greg Hicks as Plato . The pair to this piece was Above the Gods: A Dialogue about Religion; the two were published as Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues, 1986.

Like Elizabeth Cellier , Nihell claims authority for women from ancient history. It was probably Eve, she says, not Adam, who delivered the first human babies. The mother of Socrates was a midwife, and inoculation...

Blind celebrates Eliot's intellectual as well as her literary eminence. She gives her introductory chapter to issues of gender, referring back to Eliot's 1854 essay on this topic, Woman in France: Madame de Sablé....

Midwives, EC argues, were professionally organized hundreds if not thousands of years earlier than physicians. Her argument presses into service the Bible, classical texts, ancient and European history. She cites Exodus 1. 15-21, where midwives...

Xantippe was the wife of Socrates , who is supposed in popular tradition to have been a scold whose obsessive housekeeping contrasted with her husband's deep philosophy. AL sets out to rehabilitate her character in...

The essays include Samuel Pepys and Francis Bacon , Lord Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, A Curiosity of Literature not Mentioned by Isaac Disraeli and Servants. The first, despite its title, is...

However, her poetry was publicly denounced in July this year, and in August the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union imposed a ban on the journals Zvezda (The Star) and Leningrad...

SF published by subscription her last book, a translation of Xenophon 's Memoirs of Socrates , With the Defence of Socrates.

Sappho was praised by many of the great names in the classical world: Socrates , Lucian , Plutarch , Aristotle (who, however, wrote, the Mytileans honored Sappho even though she was a woman),

William Holman Hunt wrote that her prose was so clear that it seemed more like an original text than a translation. The Athenæum reviewer praised this version as being the only selection suitable for a...