Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece (eBook, PDF)

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ancient Greek Philosophy but didn't Know Who to Ask
Redaktion: O'Grady, Patricia F.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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. Commencing with Thales of Miletus and continuing to the end of the Ancient Period of philosophy by way of Heraclitus, Parmenides, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Archimedes, Epictetus this book explores the major contributions of each philosopher as well as looking at archaeological and historical sites where they lived, worked and thought. This book is an outstanding introduction to the world of the philosophers of Ancient Greece.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351918411
• Artikelnr.: 62425009

Autorenporträt

Patricia F. O'Grady is Adjunct Research Associate of Philosophy at Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword. Part I Introductory Essays: Introduction
Alan Chalmers; What is philosophy?
Trevor Curnow; What Greek philosophy means to us today
Ian Hunt. Part II The Precursors of Philosophy: Homer
Seamus Sweeney; Hesiod
Aude Engel; Aesop
Leo Groarke. Part III The Pre-socratics and Socrates: Thales of Miletus
Patricia O'Grady; Anaximander of Miletus
Dirk L. Couprie and Heleen J. Pott; Sappho
Christina Clark; Pythagoras
Thomas Kiefer; Xenophanes
Hye-kyung Kim; Aeschylus
Seamus Sweeney; Anaxagoras
Patricia O'Grady; Heraclitus
G. S. Bowe; Parmenides
Allan F. Randall; Empedocles
James M. Magrini; Protagoras of Abdera and Plato's Protagoras
Jonathan Lavery; The Sophists
Jonathan Lavery; Zeno of Elea
Doukas Kapantais; Sophocles
James M. Magrini; Euripides
Seamus Sweeney; Herodotus of Halicarnassus
Christine Farmer; Diotima of Mantineia
Melanie B. Mineo; Hippocrates of Cos
Andrew Gregory; Socrates
Hope May; Thucydides
Matthew Usher; Democritus
Alan Chalmers. Part IV The Classical Period: Aristophanes
Robert Phiddian; Plato
Gerasimos Santas; Plato's Symposium
Steven R. Robinson; The Anonymous Iamblichi
Louis Groarke; Diogenes of Sinope
Marjolein Oele; Eudoxus of Cnidos
Andrew Gregory; Aristotle
Hope May. Part V The Hellenistic Philosophers: Theophrastus of Eresus
Irene Svitzou; Pyrrho
Leo Groarke; Epicurus
Dirk Baltzly; Zeno of Citium
Maria Protopapas-Marneli; Archimedes
Suzanne Roux; Aristarchus of Samos
Andrew Gregory; Carneades
G.S. Bowe; Lucretius
Tim O'Keefe; Seneca the Younger
Kartika Panwar; Apollonius of Tyana
Gabriele Cornelli. Part VI The Roman Period: Epictetus
Keith Seddon; Apuleius of Madauros
Bruce J. MacLennan; Marcus Aurelius
William O. Stephens; Plotinus
David J. Yount; Sextus Empiricus
Sabatino Dibernardo; Imablichus of Chalcis
Bruce J. MacLennan; Anthony of Egypt and The Desert Fathers
Louis Groarke; Eusebius
Bishop of Caesarea
Linos G. Benakis; Hypatia of Alexandria
Virginia Haddad; Proclus
Dirk Baltzly; John Philoponus
Antonia Kakavelaki; The Closure of the Academy of Athens
George Arabatzis. Part VII Archaeological Sites: The Athenian Acropolis
Evanthia Speliotis; The Athenian Agora
Kevin Glowacki; Corinth
G. S. Bowe; Delphi
Deborah Nash Peterson; Didyma
Peter Sommer; Eleusis
Anne Farrell; Epidaurus
Glenn Rawson; Marathon
Trevor Curnow; Miletus
Patricia O'Grady; Ancient Olympia: athletic games and intellectual contests
Glenn Rawson; Piraeus
Daniel Silvermintz; Samos
Tim O'Keefe and Patricia O'Grady; Syracuse
Phillip Meade; Troy and Henry Schliemann
Patricia O'Grady. Glossary
Glenn Rawson; Time Line
Andrew Gregory.