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

Brunschwig, Jacques & Geoffrey E.R. Lloyd (Editors): Translated under the direction of Catherine Porter w/ Dominique Jouhoud

ISBN 10: 067400261X / ISBN 13: 9780674002616

Published by Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA) & London (UK), 2000

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SUPERB: ILLUMINATING: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2000), Unstated First Printing * 7.0" x 10.25" x 2.36", 2.16 kg, xviii+1024 (1042) pp * 32 pp of full-color illus. presented in four 8-pp-inserts * CONTENTS: Translators' Note (vii), Introduction: On Home Ground in a Distant Land (ix), Maps (xvi); PHILOSOPHY: The Philosopher (3), Images of the World (20), Myth & Knowledge (39), The Question of Being (51), Epistemology (72), Ethics (94); POLITICS: The Statesman As Political Actor (125), Inventing Politics (147), Utopia & the Critique of Politics (163), The Sage & Politics (180); THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: Schools & Sites of Learning (191), Observation & Research (218), Demonstration & the Idea of Science (243), Astronomy (269), Cosmology (279), Geography (299), Harmonics (312), History (328), Language (338), Logic (355), Mathematics (386), Medicine (414), Physics (433), Poetics (452), Rhetoric (465), Technology (486), Theology & Divination (498), Theories of Religion (511); MAJOR FIGURES: Anaxagoras (525), Antisthenes (536), Archimedes (544), Aristotle (554), Democritus (576), Epicurus (586), Euclid (606), Galen (618), Heraclitus (631), Herodotus (642), Hippocrates (649), Parmenides (660), Plato (672), Plotinus (693), Plutarch (704), Polybius (712), Protagoras (721), Ptolemy (731), Pyrrhon (739), Socrates (745), Thucydudes (763), Xenophon (779), Zeno (785); CURRENTS OF THOUGHT: The Academy (799), Aristotelianism (822), Cynicism (843), Hellenism & Christianity (858), Hellenism & Judaisim (870), The Milesians (882), Platonism (893), Pythagoreanism (918), Skepticism (937), Sophsts (957), Stoicism (977); Chronology (999), Contributors (1007), Illustration Sources (1009), Index (1013) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, & political civilization of the West draws & to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than 60 essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth & reach of Greek thought: investigating what the Greeks knew as well as what they thought about what they knew, & what they believed , invented, and understood about the conditions & 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 figures, & currents of thought, this work show us the Greeks looking at themselves, establishing the terms for understanding life, language, production, & action. The authors invoke 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, & philosophical ideas, such as those on "Utopia & the Critique of Politics," "Observation & Research," and "Ethics"; others on specific fields from Astronomy & History to Mathematics & 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 & that Aristotle considered a natural & universal trait of humankind. With 32 pages of color illustrations, this work conveys the splendor & vitaity of the Greek intellectual adventure. * ABOUT THE EDITORS: Jacques Brunschwig is Professr Emeritus, Universite de Paris-I, Pantheon-Sorbonne. Geoffrey E.R. Lloyd is Professor of Ancient Philosophy & Science, University of Cambridge * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & packages this fine book w/ our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States & its territories or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost fee of $18.00 & to international destinations via Mandatory USPS PRIORITY MAIL w/ our below-cost rates quoted on request.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge (Harvard University Press Reference Library)
• Publisher: Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA) & London (UK)
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067400261X
• ISBN 13: 9780674002616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: 32 pp of full-color illustrations presented in 8-pp-inserts on gloss-laminated stock following pp 174, 318, 510, & 654
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: Printing Unstated
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Weight: 2.16 kilograms

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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.