
Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece : Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ancient Greek Philosophy but didn't Know Who to Ask.
Title:
Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece : Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ancient Greek Philosophy but didn't Know Who to Ask.
Author:
O'Grady, Patricia F, Dr.
ISBN:
9781409423201
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (351 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- List of Maps and Photographs -- List of Figures -- PART I: INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What is Philosophy? -- 3 What Greek Philosophy Means to Us Today -- PART II: THE PRECURSORS OF PHILOSOPHY -- 4 Homer -- 5 Hesiod -- 6 Aesop -- PART III: THE PRE-SOCRATICS AND SOCRATICS -- 7 Thales of Miletus -- 8 Anaximander of Miletus -- 9 Sappho of Lesbos -- 10 Pythagoras -- 11 Xenophanes -- 12 Aeschylus -- 13 Anaxagoras of Clazomenae -- 14 Heraclitus -- 15 Parmenides -- 16 Empedocles -- 17 Protagoras of Abdera and Plato's Protagoras -- 18 The Sophists -- 19 Zeno of Elea -- 20 Sophocles -- 21 Euripides -- 22 Herodotus -- 23 Diotima of Mantineia -- 24 Hippocrates of Cos -- 25 Socrates -- 26 Thucydides -- 27 Democritus -- PART IV: THE CLASSICAL PERIOD -- 28 Aristophanes -- 29 Plato -- 30 Plato's Symposium -- 31 The Anonymous Iamblichi -- 32 Diogenes of Sinope -- 33 Eudoxus of Cnidus -- 34 Aristotle -- PART V: THE HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHERS -- 35 Theophrastus of Eresus -- 36 Pyrrho -- 37 Epicurus -- 38 Zeno of Citium -- 39 Archimedes -- 40 Aristarchus of Samos -- 41 Cameades -- 42 Lucretius -- 43 Seneca the Younger -- 44 Apollonius of Tyana -- PART VI: THE ROMAN PERIOD -- 45 Epictetus -- 46 Apuleius of Madauros -- 47 Marcus Aurelius -- 48 Plotinus -- 49 Sextus Empiricus -- 50 Iamblichus of Chalcis -- 51 Anthony of Egypt and The Desert Fathers -- 52 Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea -- 53 Hypatia of Alexandria -- 54 Proclus -- 55 John Philoponus -- 56 The Closure of the Academy of Athens -- PART VII: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES -- 57 The Athenian Acropolis -- 58 The Athenian Agora -- 59 Corinth -- 60 Delphi -- 61 Didyma -- 62 Eleusis -- 63 Epidaurus -- 64 Marathon -- 65 Miletus -- 66 Ancient Olympia: Athletic Games and Intellectual Contests -- 67 Piraeus -- 68 Samos -- 69 Syracuse.
70 Troy and Heinrich Schliemann -- Glossary -- Time Line of ancient authors.
Abstract:
Ancient Greece was the cradle of philosophy in the Western tradition. Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece brings the thoughts and lives of the pioneers of Western philosophy down from their sometimes remote heights and introduces them to a modern audience. Comprising seventy essays, written by internationally distinguished scholars in a lively and accessible style, this book presents the values, ideas, wisdom and arguments of the most significant thinkers from the world of ancient Greece.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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