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Title

A guide to Greek thought : major figures and trends / 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, 486 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Summary

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

Uniform Title

Savoir grec. Selections. English.

Subject

• Greece > Intellectual life > 146 B.C.-323 A.D
• Greece > Intellectual life > To 146 B.C
• Intellectuals > Greece
• 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, copyright 1996 by Flammarion."--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Anaxagoras -- Antisthenes -- Archimedes -- Aristotle -- Democritus -- Epicurus -- Euclid -- Galen -- Heraclitus -- Herodotus -- Hippocrates -- Parmenides -- Plato -- Plotinus -- Plutarch -- Polybius -- Protagoras -- Ptolemy -- Pyrrhon -- Socrates -- Thucydides -- Xenophon -- Zeno -- The Academy -- Aristotelianism -- Cynicism -- Hellenism and Christianity -- Hellenism and Judaism -- The Milesians -- Platonism -- Pythagoreanism -- Skepticism -- Sophists -- Stoicism.

ISBN

0674021568 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003052248

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library