This textbook for undergraduate and graduate students provides a lively and accessible translation of Lucian's True History. It is accompanied by an extensive commentary, which explains historical references and offers help translating difficult words and phrases.
Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antonius Augustus bol aj spisovateľom a filozofom. Jeho dielo Hovory k sebe samému je dostatočne známe (v slovenčine vyšlo pod názvom Myšlienky k sebe samému). Pre naše územie je zaujímavé aj tým, že Marcus Aurelius napísal: "Písané v krajine Kvádov nad Grannou (Hronom)." Cisár superveľmoci sediaci na brehu Hrona a uvažujúci o zmysle života je skutočnosťou, ktorá sa na našom území odohrala takmer pred dvetisíc rokmi
Being Plato's Atlantis, Euhemeros of Messene's Panchaia, Iamboulos' Island of the Sun, and Sir Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
Four Island Utopias provides a convenient compilation of four key texts, important for the understanding of utopian thinking in the ancient world and middle ages, along with maps and an extensive introduction to Classical Utopian thought. Ideal for courses in utopian thought.