A Guide to Greek Thought

Major Figures and Trends

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

Translated by Catherine Porter

Harvard University Press

Due/Published October 2003, 560 pages, paper

ISBN 0674021568

The philosophers, historians, and scientists of ancient Greece inaugurated and nourished the tradition of Western thought. This volume, drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, gives fresh insight into the originality of major figures and the legacy of important currents of thought.

Contents

Translators' Note
Introduction
Maps

MAJOR FIGURES
Anaxagoras
Antisthenes
Archimedes
Aristotle
Democritus
Empedocles
Epicurus
Euclid
Galen
Heraclitus
Herodotus
Hippocrates
Parmenides
Plato
Plotinus
Plutarch
Polybius
Protagoras
Ptolemy
Pyrrhon
Socrates
Thucydides
Xenophon
Zeno

CURRENTS OF THOUGHT
The Academy
Aristotelianism
Cynicism
Hellenism and Christianity
Hellenism and Judaism
The Milesians
Platonism
Pythagoreanism
Skepticism
Sophists
Stoicism

Chronology
Contributors
Index