Meet the philosophers of ancient Greece : everything you always wanted to know about ancient Greek philosophy but didn't know who to ask

351 Pages·2005·4.004 MB·English

by  O'Grady, Patricia F

Meet the Philosophers
of Ancient Greece
Everything You Always Wanted to Know
About Ancient Greek Philosophy
but didn’t Know Who to Ask
Edited by
Patricia F. O’Grady
MEET THE PHILOSOPHERS OF ANCIENT GREECE
Dedicated to the memory of Panagiotis,
a humble man, who found pleasure when reading
about the philosophers of Ancient Greece
Meet the Philosophers
of Ancient Greece
Everything you always wanted to know
about Ancient Greek philosophy
but didn’t know who to ask
Edited by
PATRICIA F. O’GRADY
Flinders University of South Australia
© Patricia F. O’Grady 2005
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system
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or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher.
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1988, to be identi.ed as the editor of this work.
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Meet the philosophers of ancient Greece: everything you always wanted to know about
ancient Greek philosophy but didn’t know who to ask
1. Philosophy, Ancient 2. Philosophers – Greece 3. Greece – Intellectual life –
To 146 B.C.
I. O’Grady, Patricia F.
180
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Meet the philosophers of ancient Greece: everything you always wanted to know about
ancient Greek philosophy but didn’t know who to ask / Patricia F. O’Grady, editor.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7546-5131-2 (hardcover: alk. paper) – ISBN 0-7546-5132-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Philosophy, Ancient. I. O’Grady, Patricia F.
B171.M44 2005
18D—dc22
2004021055
ISBN 0 7546 5131 2 (hb)
ISBN 0 7546 5132 0 (ppk)
V
ISBN 978 1 4094 2320 1 (ebk)
Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall
Contents
List of Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xv
Foreword xvii
List of Maps and Photographs xix
List of Figures xxi
PART I: INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS
1 Introduction 3
Alan Chalmers
2 What is Philosophy? 7
Trevor Curnow
3 What Greek Philosophy Means to Us Today 9
Ian Hunt
PART II: ThE PRECURSORS Of PhILOSOPhY
4 Homer 15
Seamus Sweeney
5 Hesiod 21
Aude Engel
6 Aesop 25
Leo Groarke
PART III: ThE PRE-SOCRATICS AND SOCRATICS
7 Thales of Miletus 29
Patricia F. O’Grady
8 Anaximander of Miletus 33
Dirk L. Couprie and Heleen J. Pott
vi Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece
9 Sappho of Lesbos 39
Christina A. Clark
10 Pythagoras 43
Thomas Kiefer
11 Xenophanes 49
Hye-Kyung Kim
12 Aeschylus 53
Seamus Sweeney
13 Anaxagoras of Clazomenae 59
Patricia F. O’Grady
14 Heraclitus 63
G.S. Bowe
15 Parmenides 67
Allan F. Randall
16 Empedocles 71
James M. Magrini
17 Protagoras of Abdera and Plato’s Protagoras 77
Jonathan Lavery
18 The Sophists 81
Jonathan Lavery
19 Zeno of Elea 85
Doukas Kapantaïs
20 Sophocles 89
James M. Magrini
21 Euripides 93
Seamus Sweeney
22 Herodotus 97
Christine Farmer
23 Diotima of Mantineia 101
Melanie B. Mineo
Contents vii
24 Hippocrates of Cos 105
Andrew Gregory
25 Socrates 109
Hope May
26 Thucydides 113
Matthew Usher
27 Democritus 117
Alan Chalmers
PART IV: ThE CLASSICAL PERIOD
28 Aristophanes 123
Robert Phiddian
29 Plato 127
Gerasimos Santas
30 Plato’s Symposium 133
Steven R. Robinson
31 The Anonymous Iamblichi 137
Louis Groarke
32 Diogenes of Sinope 139
Marjolein Oele
33 Eudoxus of Cnidus 143
Andrew Gregory
34 Aristotle 151
Hope May
PART V: ThE hELLENISTIC PhILOSOPhERS
35 Theophrastus of Eresus 159
Irene Svitzou
36 Pyrrho 163
Leo Groarke
viii Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece
37 Epicurus 167
Dirk Baltzly
38 Zeno of Citium 171
Maria Protopapas-Mameli
39 Archimedes 175
Suzanne Roux
40 Aristarchus of Samos 179
Andrew Gregory
41 Cameades 185
G.S. Bowe
42 Lucretius 189
Tim O’Keefe
43 Seneca the Younger 193
Kartika Panwar
44 Apollonius of Tyana 197
Gabriele Cornelli
PART VI: ThE ROMAN PERIOD
45 Epictetus 203
Keith Seddon
46 Apuleius of Madauros 207
Bruce J. MacLennan
47 Marcus Aurelius 211
William O. Stephens
48 Plotinus 215
David J. Yount
49 Sextus Empiricus 219
Sabatino DiBernardo
50 Iamblichus of Chalcis 223
Bruce J. MacLennan
Contents ix
51 Anthony of Egypt and The Desert Fathers 227
Louis Groarke
52 Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea 231
Linos G. Benakis
53 Hypatia of Alexandria 235
Virginia Haddad
54 Proclus 239
Dirk Baltzly
55 John Philoponus 243
Antonia Kakavelaki
56 The Closure of the Academy of Athens 247
George Arabatzis
PART VII: ARChAEOLOGICAL SITES
57 The Athenian Acropolis 253
Evanthia Speliotis
58 The Athenian Agora 257
Kevin Glowacki
59 Corinth 261
G.S. Bowe
60 Delphi 265
Deborah Nash Peterson
61 Didyma 269
Peter Sommer
62 Eleusis 273
Anne Farrell
63 Epidaurus 277
Glenn Rawson
64 Marathon 281
Trevor Curnow