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 It is accompanied by an extensive commentary, which explains historical references and offers help translating difficult words and phrases.
Marco Aurelio nacio en el ano 121 d.C. Las Meditaciones no nos ilustran sobre los acontecimientos acaecidos en su epoca de emperador, sino que son breves pinceladas dispersas sobre sus gustos y anhelos, soliloquio espiritual y filosofico de un emperador preocupado por construir una "ciudadela interior" que corriera mejor fortuna que su Imperio.
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.