Greek thought:a guide to classical knowledge

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Brunschwig Jacques.; Lloyd G. E. R.; (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933-; Pellegrin Pierre.
Published: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
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.