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Ancient World

    The best books on Philology, recommended by James Turner

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    Ptolemaic Alexandria
    by P.M. Fraser
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    Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship
    by Anthony Grafton
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    Prolegomena to Homer
    by Friedrich August Wolf
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    Lectures on the Religion of the Semites
    by William Robertson Smith
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    The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton
    by James Turner

The best books on Philology, recommended by James Turner

Intellectual historian James Turner describes how the once vast and unified field of philology was chopped up in the 20th century to make the different disciplines of the humanities.

    The best books on Virtue, recommended by Edward Skidelsky

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    The Symposium
    by Plato
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    The Nicomachean Ethics
    by Aristotle
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    Sense and Sensibility
    by Jane Austen
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    After Virtue
    by Alasdair MacIntyre
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    Natural Goodness
    by Philippa Foot

The best books on Virtue, recommended by Edward Skidelsky

British philosopher Edward Skidelsky tells us about virtue from Plato to the modern day, and says Jane Austen got it right when she wrote about passion

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