Introducing Greek philosophy /
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| Author / Creator: | Wright, M. R., 1933- |
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| Imprint: | Durham : Acumen, 2009. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11133804 |
| Summary: | Aimed at students of classics and of philosophy who would like a taste of the subject before being committed to a full course and at those who have already started and need to find their bearings in what may seem at first a complex maze of names and schools, "Introducing Greek Philosophy" is a concise, lively, philosophically aware introduction to ancient Greek philosophy. The book begins with the Milesians in Asia Minor before moving over to the developments in the western Greek world, then focusing on Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in Athens, finishing with the Hellenistic schools and their arrival in Rome, where the main ideas are set out in the Latin poetry of Lucretius and the prose of Cicero.The book eschews the method of most histories of ancient philosophy of addressing one thinker after another through the centuries. Instead, after a basic mapping of the territory, it takes the great themes that the Greeks were engaged in from the earliest times, and looks at them individually, their development in argument and counter-argument, from the beginnings of recorded Greek history, through the various upheavals of tyrannies, democracies, oligarchies and kingships, to their introduction into Rome in the first century BC. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-232)-and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781844654390 1844654397 9781317492474 1317492471 1844651827 1844651835 9781844651825 9781844651832 1317492463 9781317492467 1315711613 9781315711614 1283456753 9781283456753 9786613456755 6613456756 |