Ancient philosophy : textual paths and historical explorations /

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Imprint:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
©2018
�2018
Description:xxx, 805 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:Philosophy, Ancient.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11562786
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Other authors / contributors:Perilli, Lorenzo, editor.
Taormina, Daniela Patrizia, editor.
ISBN:9781138680999
1138680990
9781138668812
1138668818
9781315179339
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • East and West / M. Laura Gemelli Marciano
  • Ancient philosophy and the doxographical tradition / Jaap Mansfield
  • Focus Box 1: the transmission of ancient philosophy / Lorenzo Perilli, Daniela P. Taormina, Jaap Mansfield
  • Philosophical stones: ancient philosophy as reflected in the mirror of inscriptions / Georg Petzl
  • Socio-historical outline of the Archaic period / Paolo A. Tuci
  • "You Greeks, are always children": the infancy of wisdom / Lorenzo Perilli
  • The Presocratics / Lorenzo Perilli
  • Focus Box 2: new discoveries of ancient philosophical and scientific texts / Lorenzo Perilli and Daniela P. Taormina
  • The sophists and Socrates / Eugenio (Rick) Benitez
  • Focus Box 3: the sophists key figures / Lorenzo Perilli, Daniela P. Taormina, Eugenio (Rick) Benitez
  • Socio-historical outline of the Classical and Hellenistic periods / Paolo A. Tuci
  • Plato / María Isabel Santa Cruz
  • The Academy from Plato to Polemo / Dimitri El Murr
  • Focus Box 4: academic philosophers (fourth-first century BCE) / Tiziano Dorandi
  • Aristotle / James G. Lennox
  • Focus Box 5: Aristotle's Poetics / Guido Paduano
  • Hellenistic philosophy / Keimpe Algra
  • Socio-historical outline of the Roman period / Federico De Romanis
  • Some remarks on ancient science / Lorenzo Perilli
  • Focus Box 6: logos and algorithms / Paolo Zellini
  • Philosophy in Rome / Therese Fuhrer
  • Focus Box 7: Lucretius, a failed subversion / Luca Canali
  • Socio-historical outline of the later Roman empire / Umberto Roberto
  • Platonism, Pythagoreanism, Aristotelianism / Dominic J. O'Meara
  • Greek philosophy and philosophers in the third century CE: from Plotinus to the last Alexandrian commentators / Daniela P. Taormina
  • Augustine of Hippo and the new Christian culture / Marta Cristiani
  • Appendix: Aristotle's Testament.