Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

Like its ancient rivals, Stoic ethics was a form of virtue ethics, yet while the concept of virtue was clearly central to Stoic ethics, the concept of Stoic virtue has not yet been fully explored.

There is a growing recognition that philosophy isn't unique to the West, that it didn't begin only with the classical Greeks, and that Greek philosophy was influenced by Near Eastern traditions.

Proclus (412-485 A.

Ancient Greek Philosophy: From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers presents a comprehensive introduction to the philosophers and philosophical traditions that developed in ancient Greece from 585 BC to 529 AD.

The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BCE), though often despised for his materialism, hedonism, and denial of the immortality of the soul during many periods of history, has at the same time been a source of inspiration to figures as diverse as Vergil, Hobbes, Thomas Jefferson, and Bentham.

The first systematic study of Socrates'' interest in selfhood, examining ancient philosophical ideas of what constitutes the self.

At a time of unprecedented interest in Stoicism, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to Stoic ethics for students and for readers interested in Stoic life-guidance.

The Peripatetics explores the development of Peripatetic thought from Theophrastus and Strato to the work of the commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias.

Introduces Cicero''s philosophy and demonstrates its relevance to many fundamental epistemological, ethical, and political issues.

A primer on campaigning in ancient Rome that reads like a strategy memo from a modern political consultantHow to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines.

Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated - and appropriated - of all ancient thinkers.

Originally published in 1986.

Ruth Glasner presents an illuminating reappraisal of Averroes' physics.

Connecting several strands of Aristotle's thought, Zoli Filotas sheds light on one of the axioms of Aristotle's ethics and political philosophy that every community has a ruler and demonstrates its relevance to his ideas on personal relationships.

Leading scholars explore the theme of human and divine rationality in ancient cognitive and moral psychology.

A completely accessible but thought-provoking 2007 introduction to one of the greatest of Latin poets, Lucretius.

After centuries of neglect there is renewed interest in the life and works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (or Seneca the Younger, c 4 BCE-65 CE).

Die Geschichte der Philosophie ist reich an großen Denkern – doch was ist mit den großen Denkerinnen?

This book argues that late antiquity introduced a legal form of punitive imprisonment, complicating the concept of the ''birth of the prison''.

This book explores ancient accounts of the nature of knowledge and belief from Socrates'' predecessors up to the Platonists of late antiquity.

Sir Anthony Kenny continues his magisterial new history of Western philosophy with a fascinating guide through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards, charting the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought through to the Renaissance.

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy.

The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists is the first comprehensive English language work to provide a survey of all ancient natural science, from its beginnings through the end of Late Antiquity.

Provides new translations of Plato''s important works of ancient philosophy with an introduction explaining the major arguments.

This book provides an interpretation of Plato from the point of view of dramatic characterization.

Although Aristotle's contribution to biology has long been recognized, there are many philosophers and historians of science who still hold that he was the great delayer of natural science, calling him the man who held up the Scientific Revolution by two thousand years.

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Essays from a diverse group of experts providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher.

This book analyzes important ancient responses to Hesiod''s five-part narrative of human history as keys to their broader revisions of ''Hesiod''.

For the poet and scholar Kathleen Raine, ancient texts were not obsolete, but vital handbooks for reading reality.

Marta Jimenez presents a novel interpretation of Aristotle's account of the role of shame in moral development.

Nemesius of Emesa's On Human Nature (De Natura Hominis) is the first Christian anthropology.

This compelling and distinctive volume advances Aristotelianism by bringing its traditional virtue ethics to bear upon characteristically modern issues, such as the politics of economic power and egalitarian dispute.

John Henderson explores three letters of Seneca describing visits to Roman villas.

The presocratic philosopher Protagoras of Abdera (490 420 BC), founder of the sophistic movement, was famously agnostic towards the existence and nature of the gods, and was the proponent of the doctrine that 'man is the measure of all things'.

This fresh, comprehensive study of ancient Greek atheism aims to dismantle the current consensus that atheism was 'unthinkable' in ancient Greece, demonstrating instead that atheism was not only thinkable but inextricably embedded in the Greek religious environment.

In the two golden centuries that followed the death of Socrates, ancient philosophy underwent a tremendous transformation that culminated in the philosophical systematizations of Plato, Aristotle and the Hellenistic schools.

On the General Science of Mathematics is the third of four surviving works out of ten by Iamblichus (c.

A new and lively translation of two Platonic dialogues widely read and discussed by philosophers, with introduction and notes.

Are the just happier than the unjust?

David Gallop provides a Greek text and a new facing-page translation of the extant fragments of Parmenides' philosophical poem.

This book, first published in 1914, examines the life of Socrates and his teaching, and also details the world in which he lived, the Greece of the time experiencing a breakdown of authority in religion, morality and society.

Stoicism has had a diverse reception in German philosophy.

Edwin Hartman offers an account of his intellectual journey from Aristotle to organization theory to business ethics to an Aristotelian approach to business ethics.

This essential reference text on the life, thought and writings of Plato uses over 160 short, accessible articles to cover a complete range of topics for both the first-time student and seasoned scholar of Plato and ancient philosophy.

The subject of Aristotle's On the Heavens, Books 3-4, is the four elements of earth, air, fire and water, which exist below the heavens.