Greek thought:a guide to classical knowledge
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Published: |
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
Publication Dates: | 2000. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Harvard University Press reference library |
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Item Description: | Savoir grec. |
Carrier Form: | xv, 1024 p.: ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm. |
ISBN: |
067400261X (alk. paper) 9780674002616 (alk. paper) |
Index Number: | K545 |
CLC: | K545.03 |
Call Number: | K545.03/G793 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Philosophy. The philosopher ; Images of the world ; Myth and knowledge ; The question of being ; Epistemology ; Ethics -- Politics. The statesman as political actor ; Inventing politics ; Utopia and the critique of politics ; The sage and politics -- The pursuit of knowledge. 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 and divination ; Theories of religion -- Major figures. Anaxagoras ; Antisthenes ; Archimedes ; Aristotle ; Democritus ; Epicurus ; Euclid ; Galen ; Heraclitus ; Herodotus ; Hippocrates ; Parmenides ; Plato ; Plotinus ; Plutarch ; Polybius ; Protagoras ; Ptolemy ; Pyrrhon ; Socrates ; Thucydides ; Xenophon ; Zeno -- Currents of thought. The academy ; Aristotelianism ; Cynicism ; Hellenism and Christianity ; Hellenism and Judaism ; The Milesians ; Platonism ; Pythagoreanism ; Skepticism ; Sophists ; Stoicism. |