Greek thought : a guide to classical knowledge / edited by Jacques Brunschwig and Geoffrey E.R. Lloyd, with the collaboration of Pierre Pellegrin ; translated under the direction of Catherine Porter.
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| Uniform Title: | Savoir grec. English. |
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| Other Authors: | , , |
| Language: | English |
| Language of the Original: |
French |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Harvard University Press reference library.
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| Physical Description: | xv, 1,024 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Philosophy. The philosopher ; Images of the world ; Myth and knowledge ; The question of being ; Epistemology ; Ethics
- Politics. The statesman as political actor ; Inventing politics ; Utopia and the critique of politics ; The sage and politics
- The pursuit of knowledge. Schools and sites of learning ; Observation and research ; Demonstration and the idea of science ; Astronomy ; Cosmology ; Geography ; Harmonics ; History ; Language ; Logic ; Mathematics ; Medicine ; Physics ; Poetics ; Rhetoric ; Technology ; Theology and divination ; Theories of religion
- Major figures. Anaxagoras ; Antisthenes ; Archimedes ; Aristotle ; Democritus ; Epicurus ; Euclid ; Galen ; Heraclitus ; Herodotus ; Hippocrates ; Parmenides ; Plato ; Plotinus ; Plutarch ; Polybius ; Protagoras ; Ptolemy ; Pyrrhon ; Socrates ; Thucydides ; Xenophon ; Zeno
- Currents of thought. The academy ; Aristotelianism ; Cynicism ; Hellenism and Christianity ; Hellenism and Judaism ; The Milesians ; Platonism ; Pythagoreanism ; Skepticism ; Sophists ; Stoicism.