A History of Ancient Philosophy

Translated by Henrik Rosenmeier, A History of Ancient Philosophy charts the origins and development of ancient philosophical thought. For easy reference, the book is divided chronologically into six main parts. The sections are further divided into philosophers and philosophical movements:

Pre-Socratic Philosophy, including mythology, the Pythagoreans and Parmenides

The Great Century of Athens, including the Sophists and Socrates

Plato, including The Republic, The Symposium and The Timaeus

Aristotle, including The Physics, The Metaphysics and The Poetics

Hellenistic Philosophy, including the Sceptics, the Stoics, the Epicureans and Cicero

Late Antiquity, including Neoplatonism, Origen and St Augustine.

This comprehensive and meticulously documented book is structured to make ancient philosophical thought and ancient thinkers accessible. It contains:

full references to primary sources

detailed interpretations of key philosophical passages, including surveys of previous philosophical readings

an overview of the development of ancient philosophical thought

discussions of the relationships between philosophers and their ideas

analyses of key philosophical concepts and ideologies including ontology, epistemology, logic, semantics, moral and political philosophy, theology and aesthetics

explanations of Greek philosophical terminology.