Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ancient Greek Philosophy but didn't Know Who to Ask

by O'Grady,Patricia F.

• ISBN13: 9780754651321
• ISBN10: 0754651320
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-04-28
• Publisher: Routledge

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