Democritus: Science, the Arts, and the Care of the Soul

Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Democritus (Paris, 18-20 September 2003)
Herausgeber: Brancacci, Aldo; Morel, Pierre-Marie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume gathers specific investigations dealing with some of the main topics of the research on Democritus: the catalogue of works, music, literary criticism, technics, zoology and the relation to medicine, physics, epistemology, posterity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2006
• Englisch, Französisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 167mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 785g
• ISBN-13: 9789004151604
• ISBN-10: 9004151605
• Artikelnr.: 22714620

Autorenporträt

Aldo Brancacci is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He has published extensively on ancient Greek philosophy, including two books on Dio Crysostom (1986) and Antisthenes (1990, French rev. transl. Paris 2005). He edited a series of books on the philosophy of the Imperial Age, most recently Philosophy and Doxography in the Imperial Age (2005). Pierre-Marie Morel teaches History of Ancient Philosophy at University Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has already published, among others, Démocrite et la recherche des causes (1996); Atome et nécessité. Démocrite, Epicure, Lucrèce (2000); Aristote, Parva naturalia, Introduction, French translation and commentary (2000), and several papers on ancient Atomism and Aristotle's psychology.