A Companion to Ancient Philosophy

Copyright © 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Ancient Philosophy

Editor(s): Mary Louise Gill, Pierre Pellegrin

Published Online: 8 MAY 2012 08:46PM EST

Print ISBN: 9780631210610

Online ISBN: 9781444305845

DOI: 10.1002/9781444305845

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A 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.

  • Comprises an extensive collection of original essays, featuring contributions from both rising stars and senior scholars of ancient philosophy
  • Integrates analytic and continental traditions
  • Explores the development of various disciplines, such as mathematics, logic, grammar, physics, and medicine, in relation to ancient philosophy
  • Includes an illuminating introduction, bibliography, chronology, maps and an index

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xxxvi)

  2. Part I: Early Greek Philosophy

    1. Chapter 1

      The Beginnings of Science and Philosophy in Archaic Greece (pages 1–19)

      Edward Hussey

    2. Chapter 2

      Ancient Philosophy and the Doxographical Tradition (pages 20–33)

      Jørgen Mejer

    3. Chapter 3

      Parmenides and after: Unity and Plurality (pages 34–55)

      Patricia Curd

    4. Chapter 4

      The Concept of the Universal in Some Later Pre-Platonic Cosmologists (pages 56–76)

      Alexander P. D. Mourelatos

    5. Chapter 5

      The Sophistic Movement (pages 77–97)

      Rachel Barney

  3. Part II: Socrates, the Socratics, and Plato

    1. Chapter 6

      Socrates (pages 99–118)

      Donald R. Morrison

    2. Chapter 7

      Minor Socratics (pages 119–135)

      Fernanda Decleva Caizzi

    3. Chapter 8

      The Platonic Dialogue (pages 136–150)

      Christopher Gill

    4. Chapter 9

      Plato's Ethics: Early and Middle Dialogues (pages 151–169)

      Terry Penner

    5. Chapter 10

      Plato's Political Philosophy: The Republic, the Statesman, and the Laws (pages 170–191)

      Melissa Lane

    6. Chapter 11

      Plato's Metaphysics and Dialectic (pages 192–211)

      Noburu Notomi

    7. Chapter 12

      Plato's Natural Philosophy and Metaphysics (pages 212–231)

      Luc Brisson

  4. Part III: Aristotle

    1. Chapter 13

      The Aristotelian Way (pages 233–244)

      Pierre Pellegrin

    2. Chapter 14

      Aristotle's Logic and Theory of Science (pages 245–269)

      Wolfgang Detel

    3. Chapter 15

      Aristotle's Physics and Cosmology (pages 270–291)

      István Bodnár and Pierre Pellegrin

    4. Chapter 16

      Aristotle's Biology and Aristotle's Philosophy (pages 292–315)

      James G. Lennox

    5. Chapter 17

      Aristotle's Psychology (pages 316–346)

      Victor Caston

    6. Chapter 18

      First Philosophy in Aristotle (pages 347–373)

      Mary Louise Gill

    7. Chapter 19

      Aristotle's Ethics (pages 374–392)

      Michael Pakaluk

    8. Chapter 20

      Aristotle's Political Philosophy (pages 393–412)

      David Keyt

  5. Part IV: Philosophy in the Hellenistic Age

    1. Chapter 21

      Philosophic Schools in Hellenistic and Roman Times (pages 413–429)

      Thomas Bénatouïl

    2. Chapter 22

      The Problem of Sources (pages 430–447)

      Robert W. Sharples

    3. Chapter 23

      The New Academy and its Rivals (pages 448–464)

      Carlos Lévy

    4. Chapter 24

      Pyrrhonism (pages 465–485)

      Jacques Brunschwig

    5. Chapter 25

      Epicureanism (pages 486–504)

      Pierre-Marie Morel

    6. Chapter 26

      Stoic Logic (pages 505–529)

      Katerina Ierodiakonou

    7. Chapter 27

      Stoic Ethics (pages 530–548)

      Richard Bett

    8. Chapter 28

      Hellenistic Cosmopolitanism (pages 549–558)

      Eric Brown

  6. Part V: Middle and Late Platonism

    1. Chapter 29

      Middle Platonism (pages 559–576)

      Marco Zambon

    2. Chapter 30

      Plotinus (pages 577–596)

      Luc Brisson and Jean-François Pradeau

    3. Chapter 31

      What was Commentary in Late Antiquity? the Example of the Neoplatonic Commentators (pages 597–622)

      Philippe Hoffmann

  7. Part VI: Culture, Philosophy, and the Sciences

    1. Chapter 32

      Greek Philosophy and Religion (pages 623–639)

      Gábor Betegh

    2. Chapter 33

      Philosophy of Language (pages 640–663)

      Deborah K. W. Modrak

    3. Chapter 34

      Ancient Medicine and its Contribution to the Philosophical Tradition (pages 664–685)

      Pierre Pellegrin

    4. Chapter 35

      Greek Mathematics to the Time of Euclid (pages 686–718)

      Ian Mueller

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      Index Locorum (pages 719–755)

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      Index (pages 756–791)

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