21b11
22b119
A01=M. R. Wright
A01=Rosemary Wright
ancient epistemology
Aristotelian logic
Author_M. R. Wright
Author_Rosemary Wright
Best Life
Category=QDHA
Corpus Hermeticum
death
diogenes
Diogenes Laertius
Dissoi Logoi
Early Sixth Century BCE
Eleatic Denial
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
Equal Directions
ering
Fourth Century BCE
Galen's Teacher
Galen’s Teacher
Heart Area
heaven
Hellenistic philosophy schools
Home Town
Intellectual Gifts
laius
Metaphysics Lambda
Mid-fourth Century BCE
Middle Platonism
Milesian philosophers
origins of Western philosophical thought
outer
Outer Heaven
pagan monotheism
Panta Rhei
Plato's Early Works
Platonic dialogues
Platonic Underworld
Plato’s Early Works
Scipio Aemilianus
scipionis
somnium
Somnium Scipionis
Stanze Della Segnatura
Unmoved Mover
Young Men
Zeno's Dilemmas
Zeno’s Dilemmas
Product details
- ISBN 9781844651825
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Aimed at students of classics and of philosophy who would like a taste of the subject before being committed to a full course and at those who have already started and need to find their bearings in what may seem at first a complex maze of names and schools, "Introducing Greek Philosophy" is a concise, lively, philosophically aware introduction to ancient Greek philosophy. The book begins with the Milesians in Asia Minor before moving over to the developments in the western Greek world, then focusing on Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in Athens, finishing with the Hellenistic schools and their arrival in Rome, where the main ideas are set out in the Latin poetry of Lucretius and the prose of Cicero.The book eschews the method of most histories of ancient philosophy of addressing one thinker after another through the centuries. Instead, after a basic mapping of the territory, it takes the great themes that the Greeks were engaged in from the earliest times, and looks at them individually, their development in argument and counter-argument, from the beginnings of recorded Greek history, through the various upheavals of tyrannies, democracies, oligarchies and kingships, to their introduction into Rome in the first century BC.
M. R. Wright is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Wales.
