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Book SynopsisA Companion to Ancient Philosophy provides a comprehensive and current overview of the history of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy from its origins until late antiquity.
Trade Review“This
Companion does a good job of introducing students to the study of ancient philosophy…This book will give students a sense of what working in the area of ancient philosophy involves and may encourage them to develop some of the requisite skills themselves rather than simply furnish another source for regurgitation.” (
The Classical Review, Vol 58 No. 1 2008)
"[T]he Companion draws together a wealth of material, presented in accordance with the most recent scholarly standards for the interpretation of ancient philosophical texts. The Companion will be an excellent source-book for students interested in the study of ancient philosophy, as well as for scholars who are rethinking their views on well-known problems by considering the new perspectives offered." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review)
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiv
Abbreviations xv
Chronology xvi
Maps xxvi
Introduction xxix
Part I: Early Greek Philosophy
1. The Beginnings of Science and Philosophy in Archaic Greece 3
Edward Hussey
2. Ancient Philosophy and the Doxographical Tradition 20
Jørgen Mejer
3. Parmenides and After: Unity and Plurality 34
Patricia Curd
4. The Concept of the Universal in Some Later Pre-Platonic Cosmologists 56
Alexander P. D. Mourelatos
5. The Sophistic Movement 77
Rachel Barney
Part II: Socrates, the Socratics, and Plato
6. Socrates 101
Donald R. Morrison
7. Minor Socratics 119
Fernanda Decleva Caizzi
8. The Platonic Dialogue 136
Christopher Gill
9. Plato’s Ethics: Early and Middle Dialogues 151
Terry Penner
10. Plato’s Political Philosophy: The Republic, the Statesman, and the Laws 170
Melissa Lane
11. Plato’s Metaphysics and Dialectic 192
Noburu Notomi
12. Plato’s Natural Philosophy and Metaphysics 212
Luc Brisson
Part III: Aristotle
13. The Aristotelian Way 235
Pierre Pellegrin
14. Aristotle’s Logic and Theory of Science 245
Wolfgang Detel
15. Aristotle’s Physics and Cosmology 270
István Bodnár and Pierre Pellegrin
16. Aristotle’s Biology and Aristotle’s Philosophy 292
James G. Lennox
17. Aristotle’s Psychology 316
Victor Caston
18. First Philosophy in Aristotle 347
Mary Louise Gill
19. Aristotle’s Ethics 374
Michael Pakaluk
20. Aristotle’s Political Philosophy 393
David Keyt
Part IV: Philosophy in the Hellenistic Age
21. Philosophic Schools in Hellenistic and Roman Times 415
Thomas Bénatouïl
22. The Problem of Sources 430
Robert W. Sharples
23. The New Academy and its Rivals 448
Carlos Lévy
24. Pyrrhonism 465
Jacques Brunschwig
25. Epicureanism 486
Pierre-Marie Morel
26. Stoic Logic 505
Katerina Ierodiakonou
27. Stoic Ethics 530
Richard Bett
28. Hellenistic Cosmopolitanism 549
Eric Brown
Part V: Middle and Late Platonism
29. Middle Platonism 561
Marco Zambon
30. Plotinus 577
Luc Brisson and Jean-François Pradeau
31. What was Commentary in Late Antiquity? The Example of the Neoplatonic Commentators 597
Philippe Hoffmann
Part VI: Culture, Philosophy, and the Sciences
32. Greek Philosophy and Religion 625
Gábor Betegh
33. Philosophy of Language 640
Deborah K. W. Modrak
34. Ancient Medicine and its Contribution to the Philosophical Tradition 664
Pierre Pellegrin
35. Greek Mathematics to the Time of Euclid 686
Ian Mueller
Index Locorum 719
General Index 756
