Greek thought: a guide to classical knowledge

by Brunschwig, Jacques Lloyd, G. E. R., (Geoffrey Ernest Richard) Pellegrin, Pierre

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Title Statements

Full title :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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2000

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2000

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 1, 024 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (some color), maps ; : 26 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:067400261X, 9780674002616
oclc:on1049758491
LC Classification:DF78
Dewey Decimal:938

Introduction: On Home Ground in a Distant Land -- 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.

Subjects

Biographies Grèce -- Politique et gouvernement -- J… Grèce -- Vie intellectuelle -- Jusqu'à … Greece Greece -- Intellectual life -- To 146 B… Greece -- Politics and government -- To… Intellectual life Intellectuals Intellectuals -- Biography. -- Greece Intellectuels -- Biographies. -- Grèce Pensée Politics and government Thinking Thought and thinking To 146 B.C