Meet The Philosophers Of Ancient Greece

by O'Grady, Patricia F.

• ISBN13: 9780754651314
• ISBN10: 0754651312
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

Ancient Greece was the cradle of philosophy in the Western tradition. Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece brings the thoughts and lives of the pioneers of Western philosophy down from their sometimes remote heights and introduces them to a modern audience. Comprising seventy essays, written by internationally distinguished scholars in a lively and accessible style, this book presents the values, ideas, wisdom and arguments of the most significant thinkers from the world of Ancient Greece.Commencing with Thales of Miletus and continuing to the end of the Ancient Period of philosophy by way of Heraclitus, Parmenides, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Archimedes, Epictetus this book explores the major contributions of each philosopher as well as looking at archaeological and historical sites where they lived, worked and thought. This book is an outstanding introduction to the world of the philosophers of Ancient Greece.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	xi
Acknowledgements	xv
Foreword	xvii
List of Maps and Photographs	xix
List of Figures	xxi
PART I: INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS
Introduction	3	(4)
Alan Chalmers
What is Philosophy?	7	(2)
Trevor Curnow
What Greek Philosophy Means to Us Today	9	(6)
Ian Hunt
PART II: THE PRECURSORS OF PHILOSOPHY
Homer	15	(6)
Seamus Sweeney
Hesiod	21	(4)
Aude Engel
Aesop	25	(4)
Leo Groarke
PART III: THE PRE-SOCRATICS AND SOCRATES
Thales of Miletus	29	(4)
Patricia F. O'Grady
Anaximander of Miletus	33	(6)
Dirk L. Couprie
Heleen J. Pott
Sappho of Lesbos	39	(4)
Christina A. Clark
Pythagoras	43	(6)
Thomas Kiefer
Xenophanes	49	(4)
Hye-Kyung Kim
Aeschylus	53	(6)
Seamus Sweeney
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae	59	(4)
Patricia F. O'Grady
Heraclitus	63	(4)
G.S. Bowe
Parmenides	67	(4)
Allan F. Randall
Empedocles	71	(6)
James M. Magrini
Protagoras of Abdera and Plato's Protagoras	77	(4)
Jonathan Lavery
The Sophists	81	(4)
Jonathan Lavery
Zeno of Elea	85	(4)
Doukas Kapantais
Sophocles	89	(4)
James M. Magrini
Euripides	93	(4)
Seamus Sweeney
Herodotus	97	(4)
Christine Farmer
Diotima of Mantineia	101	(4)
Melanie B. Mineo
Hippocrates of Cos	105	(4)
Andrew Gregory
Socrates	109	(4)
Hope May
Thucydides	113	(4)
Matthew Usher
Democritus	117	(6)
Alan Chalmers
PART IV: THE CLASSICAL PERIOD
Aristophanes	123	(4)
Robert Phiddian
Plato	127	(6)
Gerasimos Santas
Plato's Symposium	133	(4)
Steven R. Robinson
The Anonymous Iamblichi	137	(2)
Louis Groarke
Diogenes of Sinope	139	(4)
Marjolein Oele
Eudoxus of Cnidos	143	(8)
Andrew Gregory
Aristotle	151	(8)
Hope May
PART V: THE HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHERS
Theophrastus of Eresus	159	(4)
Irene Svitzou
Pyrrho	163	(4)
Leo Groarke
Epicurus	167	(4)
Dirk Baltzly
Zeno of Citium	171	(4)
Maria Protopapas-Marneli
Archimedes	175	(4)
Suzanne Roux
Aristarchus of Samos	179	(6)
Andrew Gregory
Carneades	185	(4)
G.S. Bowe
Lucretius	189	(4)
Tim O'Keefe
Seneca the Younger	193	(4)
Kartika Panwar
Apollonius of Tyana	197	(6)
Gabriele Cornelli
PART VI: THE ROMAN PERIOD
Epictetus	203	(4)
Keith Seddon
Apuleius of Madauros	207	(4)
Bruce J. MacLennan
Marcus Aurelius	211	(4)
William O. Stephens
Plotinus	215	(4)
David J. Yount
Sextus Empiricus	219	(4)
Sabatino DiBernardo
Iamblichus of Chalcis	223	(4)
Bruce J. MacLennan
Anthony of Egypt and The Desert Fathers	227	(4)
Louis Groarke
Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea	231	(4)
Linos G. Benakis
Hypatia of Alexandria	235	(4)
Virginia Haddad
Proclus	239	(4)
Dirk Baltzly
John Philoponus	243	(4)
Antonia Kakavelaki
The Closure of the Academy of Athens	247	(6)
George Arabatzis
PART VII: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES
The Athenian Acropolis	253	(4)
Evanthia Speliotis
The Athenian Agora	257	(4)
Kevin Glowacki
Corinth	261	(4)
G.S. Bowe
Delphi	265	(4)
Deborah Nash Peterson
Didyma	269	(4)
Peter Sommer
Eleusis	273	(4)
Anne Farrell
Epidaurus	277	(4)
Glenn Rawson
Marathon	281	(4)
Trevor Curnow
Miletus	285	(4)
Patricia F. O'Grady
Ancient Olympia: Athletic Games and Intellectual Contests	289	(6)
Glenn Rawson
Piraeus	295	(2)
Daniel Silvermintz
Samos	297	(4)
Tim O'Keefe
Patricia F. O'Grady
Syracuse	301	(4)
Phillip Meade
Troy and Heinrich Schliemann	305	(4)
Patricia F. O'Grady
Glossary	309	(5)
Glenn Rawson
Time Line of ancient authors	314
Andrew Gregory