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Title

The Greek pursuit of knowledge / edited by Jacques Brunschwig and Geoffrey E.R. Lloyd ; with the collaboration of Pierre Pellegrin ; translated under the direction of Catherine Porter.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Brunschwig, Jacques.
• Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933-
• Pellegrin, Pierre

Description

xiii, 387 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 book 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 extraordinary explosion of desire for knowledge in the classical Greek world."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Savoir grec. Selections. English.

Subject

• Greece > Intellectual life > To 146 B.C
• Thought and thinking > History > To 1500

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• The essays in this book are selections taken from the complete book of essays issued in English under title Greek thought.
• "First published as Le Savoir Grec: Dictionnaire Critique, copyright1996 by Flammarion"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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. -- Theories of religion. -- Chronology.

ISBN

067402155X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003052247

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library