The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge

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Edited by Jacques Brunschwig and Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd,

Translated by Catherine Porter

Harvard University Press

Due/Published October 2003, 418 pages, paper

ISBN 067402155X

Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In this volume drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, major scholars take up basic topics in philosophy and science, offering an account of the explosion of desire for knowledge in the classical Greek world.

Contents

Translators' Note
Introduction
Maps

The Philosopher
Epistemology
Schools and Sites of Learning
Observation and Research
Demonstration and the Idea of Science
Astronomy
Cosmology
Geography
Harmonics
History
Language
Logic
Mathematics
Medicine
Physics
Poetics
Rhetoric
Technology
Theology and Divination
Theories of Religion

Chronology
Contributors
Index