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 : : illustrations (some color), maps ; : 26 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:067400261X, 9780674002616
oclc:on1084631750
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.

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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