Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge (Harvard University Press Reference Library)

Brunschwig, Jacques [Editor]; Lloyd, Geoffrey E. R. [Editor]; Porter, Catherine [Translator]; Annas, Julia [Contributor]; Bardet, Serge [Contributor]; Bélis, Annie [Contributor]; Berti, Enrico [Contributor]; Blumenthal, Henry [Contributor]; Bodéüs, Richard [Contributor]; Brisson, Luc [Contributor]; Canto-Sperber, Monique [Contributor]; Cartledge, Paul [Contributor]; Cassin, Barbara [Contributor]; Caveing, Maurice [Contributor]; De Gandt, François [Contributor]; Debru, Armelle [Contributor]; Dillon, John [Contributor]; Frede, Michael [Contributor]; Furley, D. J. [Contributor]; Goulet-Cazé, Marie-Odile [Contributor]; Hartog, François [Contributor]; Huffman, Carl [Contributor]; Hussey, Edward [Contributor]; Jacob, Christian [Contributor]

ISBN 10: 067400261X / ISBN 13: 9780674002616

Published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2000

About this Item

Hardcover and dust jacket. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Minor shelf wear. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xv, 1024 p., [32] plates, 26 cm. "More colloquy than compendium, this remarkable volume shows scholars shining as teachers. Ingeniously, editors Brunschwig and Lloyd have lured contributors into lively reflections. Readers encounter impassioned argument about 'the invention of politics' and truthfulness in history, ideal for undergraduates seeking context for their study of primary texts. The collection holds delights. This is an edition you should order immediately." - P. W. Wakefield This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge (Harvard University Press Reference Library)
• Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067400261X
• ISBN 13: 9780674002616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 75 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Ancient History/Classical Studies

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Synopsis

Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth and reach of Greek thought--investigating what the Greeks knew as well as what they thought about what they knew, and what they believed, invented, and understood about the conditions and possibilities of knowing. Calling attention to the characteristic reflexivity of Greek thought, the analysis in this book reminds us of what our own reflections owe to theirs.

In sections devoted to philosophy, politics, the pursuit of knowledge, major thinkers, and schools of thought, this work shows us the Greeks looking at themselves, establishing the terms for understanding life, language, production, and action. The authors evoke not history, but the stories the Greeks told themselves about history; not their poetry, but their poetics; not their speeches, but their rhetoric. Essays that survey political, scientific, and philosophical ideas, such as those on Utopia and the Critique of Politics, Observation and Research, and Ethics; others on specific fields from Astronomy and History to Mathematics and Medicine; new perspectives on major figures, from Anaxagoras to Zeno of Elea; studies of core traditions from the Milesians to the various versions of Platonism: together these offer a sense of the unquenchable thirst for knowledge that marked Greek civilization--and that Aristotle considered a natural and universal trait of humankind. With thirty-two pages of color illustrations, this work conveys the splendor and vitality of the Greek intellectual adventure.

About the Authors

Jacques Brunschwig was Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Emeritus, at Paris-Sorbonne University.

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.

Julia Annas is Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.

Paul Cartledge is Professor of Greek History at Clare College, Cambridge.

David John Furley (1922–2010) was Charles Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Princeton University.