Greek Thought

A Guide to Classical Knowledge

Edited by Jacques Brunschwig and Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd

Translated under the direction of Catherine Porter

    Translators' Note

    Introduction: On Home Ground in a Distant Land

    Maps

    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

    Chronology

    Contributors

    Illustration Sources

    Index

  • Cover: Greek Thought
  • A photo of the author

Author Photo: Hervé Morel

Jacques Brunschwig is Professor of the History of Ancient Philosophy, Emeritus, at the University of Paris. He is the author of Papers in Hellenistic Philosophy (Cambridge University Press).

Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd succeeded Moses Finley as Master of Darwin College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of numerous works on the classical period, among them Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle; Greek Science after Aristotle; and Magic, Reason, and Experience: Studies in the Origin and Development of Greek Science.