Meet the philosophers of ancient Greece : everything you always wanted to know about ancient Greek philosophy but didn't know who to ask /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2005. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 312 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Philosophy, Ancient. PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical. Philosophy, Ancient. Philosophie Griechenland Electronic books. Electronic books. Electronic reference sources. Electronic books. |
| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11259591 |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Introductory essays: Introduction / Alan Chalmers ; What is philosophy? / Trevor Curnow ; What Greek philosophy means to us today / Ian Hunt
- pt. 2. The precursors of philosophy: Homer / Seamus Sweeney ; Hesiod / Aude Engel ; Aesop / Leo Groarke
- pt. 3. The pre-Socratics and Socrates: Thales of Miletus / Patricia F. O'Grady ; Anaximander of Miletus / Dirk L. Couprie and Heleen J. Pott ; Sappho of Lesbos / Christina A. Clark ; Pythagoras / Thomas Kiefer ; Xenophanes / Hye-Kyung Kim ; Aeschylus / Seamus Sweeney ; Anaxagoras of Clazomenae / Patricia F. 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 Kapantaïs ; Sophocles / James M. Magrini ; Euripides / Seamus Sweeney ; Herodotus / Christine Farmer ; Diotima of Mantineia / Melanie B. Mineo ; Hippocrates of Cos / Andrew Gregory ; Socrates / Hope May ; Thucydides / Matthew Usher ; Democritus / Alan Chalmers
- pt. 4. 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
- pt. 5. 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
- pt. 6. 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 ; Iamblichus 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
- pt. 7. 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 F. O'Grady ; Ancient Olympia : athletic games and intellectual contests / Glenn Rawson ; Piraeus / Daniel Silvermintz ; Samos / Tim O'Keefe and Patricia F. O'Grady ; Syracuse / Phillip Meade ; Troy and Heinrich Schliemann / Patricia F. O'Grady
- Glossary / Glenn Rawson
- Time line of ancient authors / Andrew Gregory.