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    Seneca: The Life of a Stoic

    Paul Veyne

    First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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    Seneca: The Life of a Stoic

    Paul Veyne

    The great stoic philosopher, playwright and Roman statesman of the first century, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, exercised enormous influence for nearly 15 years as tutor and political advisor to the Emperor…

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    The Roman Empire

    Paul Veyne

    This text is an interpretation of the universal civilization of the Romans, so much of it Hellenic, that later gave way to Christianity. The civilization, culture, literature, art, and even…

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    When Our World Became Christian

    Paul Veyne

    Deals with a big question: how was it that Christianity, that masterpiece of religious invention, managed, between 300 and 400 AD, to impose itself upon the whole of the Western…

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    When Our World Became Christian

    Paul Veyne

    Focuses on a key historical event: Emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity in the 4th Century.

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    Foucault: His Thought, His Character

    Paul Veyne

    Presenting a portrait of the philosopher, Michel Foucault, this book dispels the confusions and misunderstandings that have so often characterized the interpretation of Foucault and his work.

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    Foucault: His Thought, His Character

    Paul Veyne

    Michel Foucault and Paul Veyne: the philosopher and the historian. Two major figures in the world of ideas, resisting all attempts at categorization. Two timeless thinkers who have long walked…

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    Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?: Essay on the Constitutive Imagination

    Paul Veyne

    [Veyne’s] present book has some kinship with his sprightly theoretical work Comment on ecrit l'histoire ; and he declares that its aim was to provoke reflection on the way our…

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    Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure

    Paul Veyne

    Originally published as: Palmyre: l'irrempladcable traesor.

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    Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure

    Paul Veyne

    An elegant, learned account of one of the great sites of the ancient world, a treasure of antiquity that has been all but destroyed by ISIS.

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    La playa de los ahogados / Drowned Man’s Beach

    Domingo Villar,Jean Racine,Paul Veyne

    El laconico inspector Leo Caldas se enfrenta a un misterioso asesinato en un pueblo de pescadores de ambiente opresivo. La marea ha arrastrado el cadaver del pescador Justo Castelo hasta…

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    A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

    First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world.

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