Addressing classicists, philosophers, students, and general readers alike, this volume emphasizes the unity of Seneca's work and his originality as a translator of Stoic ideas in the literary forms of imperial Rome.
Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean.
The six studies comprising this volume deal with some fundamental issues in early Greek thought: cosmic evaluation in Anaximander, the theory of opposites from the Pre-Socratics to Plato and Aristotle, thought experimentation in Pre-Socratic thought, the origins of Greek Scepticism among the Sophisists, the prehistory of "e;Buridan's Ass"e; speculation, and the role of esthesis in Aristotle's theory of science.
The purpose of the conference "e;On Pythagoreanism"e;, held in Brasilia in 2011, was to bring together leading scholars from all over the world to define the status quaestionis for the ever-increasing interest and research on Pythagoreanism in the 21st century.
In accordance with the purpose of the series Traditio Praesocratica, the present volume, the first in the series, contains the most complete collection ever assembled of the documentary evidence on Thales of Miletus.
In dieser Arbeit wird Platons radikale Position zu Gelderwerb und Reichtum untersucht, die sich in der Kritik an den Honoraren der Sophisten, in den strengen Besitzregeln der Politeia und in der restriktiven Wirtschaftsordnung der Nomoi ausdrückt.
