Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

Ancient Greece was the cradle of philosophy in the Western tradition.

The Katha Upanishad embraces the key ideas of Indian mysticism in a mythic story we can all relate to the quest of a young hero, Nachiketa, who ventures into the land of death in search of immortality.

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

A new critical edition of Diogenes Laertius'' Lives of Eminent Philosophers, a unique and profoundly influential work.

Volume 1 of the Routledge History of Philosophy covers one of the most remarkable periods in human thought.

Aristotle's theories of truth, practical reasoning, and action are some of the most influential theories in the history of philosophy.

In Happiness for Humans, Daniel C.

Socrates is regarded as the founder of Western philosophical inquiry.

This volume illuminates an underexplored aspect of Plato''s Laws: its uniquely rich discussion of cultural matters.

What can the study of the history of ancient philosophy bring to the study of contemporary philosophical problems and questions?

The articles in this volume employ source-work research to trace Kierkegaard's understanding and use of authors from the Greek tradition.

This book links Plato and Epicurus, two of the most prominent ethicists in the history of philosophy, exploring how Platonic material lays the conceptual groundwork for Epicurean hedonism.

Julian: An Intellectual Biography, first published in 1981, presents a penetrating and scholarly analysis of Julian's intellectual development against the background of philosophy and religion in the late Roman Empire.

Exploring the political ideology of Republicanism under the Roman emperors of the first century AD, Sam Wilkinson puts forward the hypothesis that there was indeed opposition to the political structure and ideology of the rulers on the grounds of Republicanism.

This book studies the history of intercultural human rights.

In studies of early Christian thought, 'philosophy' is often a synonym for 'Platonism', or at most for 'Platonism and Stoicism'.

This book examines the origins of ancient Greek science using the vehicles of blood, blood vessels, and the heart.

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle s Nicomachean Ethics illuminates Aristotle s ethics for both academics and students new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars.

Once Out of Nature offers an original interpretation of Augustine's theory of time and embodiment.

This is the first volume in this translation of Proclus'' Commentary on Plato''s Timaeus.

A comprehensive and incisive treatment of this multi-layered dialogue and its main critical issues, focusing on the central theme of erōs.

Aristotle's Topics is a handbook for dialectic, which can be understood as a philosophical debate between a questioner and a respondent.

Intellectuals in Politics in the Greek World, first published in 1984, was the first comprehensive study of this recurrent theme in political sociology with specific reference to antiquity, and led to significant revaluation of the role of intellectuals in everyday political life.

The Historiography of Philosophy is the text, virtually unchanged, of the Nellie Wallace lectures, which Michael Frede gave in Oxford in 1989-90.

This book rethinks the relations between reasoning and revelation and, therefore, the nature of philosophy and religion in archaic Greece.

The most striking merits of Guthrie''s work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship.

Timeless wisdom on death and dying from the celebrated Stoic philosopher Seneca"e;It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die,"e; wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c.

The forced suicide of Seneca, former adviser to Nero, is one of the most tortured--and most revisited--death scenes from classical antiquity.

In this study, Sayre discusses key, but previously obscure, passages in the Statesman.

Plato, often cited as a founding father of Western philosophy, set out ideas in the Republic regarding the nature of justice, order, and the character of the just individual, that endure into the modern day.

In this study, Levin explores Plato's engagement with the Greek literary tradition in his treatment of key linguistic issues.

The second volume in a landmark commentary on an important and influential work of ancient philosophyThis is the second volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinusa text that formed the basis of Neoplatonism and had a deep influence on early Christian thought and medieval and Renaissance philosophy.

This commentary records, through notes taken by Hermias, Syrianus' seminar on Plato's Phaedrus, one of the world's most influential celebrations of erotic beauty and love.

With detailed annotation and references, this is the first complete English translation of Plotinus in one volume for several decades.

Reveals how ancient philosophers approached questions about the nature of poetry, its ethical and social impact and access to truth.

Examines the role of myth in Plato''s Phaedrus, arguing that it leads readers to participate in Plato''s dialogues and to engage in self-examination.

An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the origin of secular philosophy to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers who proposed a physical universe without supernatural intervention.

This book showcases a figure whose life and work bridge Classical and Hellenistic Greece.

The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life is the first comprehensive guide to animals in the ancient world, encompassing all aspects of the topic by featuring authoritative chapters on 33 topics by leading scholars in their fields.

Aristotle''s De Anima was the first systematic philosophical account of the soul and its faculties.

Studies the dominant philosophical reflections on religion and the pantheon in the Post-Hellenistic period.

Ancient Greeks endeavored to define the human being vis-a-vis other animal species by isolating capacities and endowments which they considered to be unique to humans.

This volume provides a systematic guide to Aristotle''s Nicomachean Ethics, a key text of ancient philosophy, and Western philosophy in general.

This book offers a brief, accessible introduction to the thought of Boethius.

Presents a new understanding of the social and political world of the late republic and the reasons for its fall.

The book offers a comprehensive account of the major philosophical works on friendship.

Aristotle described the scientific explanation of universal or general facts as deducing them through scientific demonstrations, that is, through syllogisms that met requirements of logical validity and explanatoriness which he first formulated.

The commentary of Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle's Prior Analytics 1.