Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece by O'GRADY, PATRICIA F. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword List of Maps and Photographs List of Figures PART I: INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS

1 Introduction 2 What is Philosophy? 3 What Greek Philosophy Means to Us Today

PART II: THE PRECURSORS OF PHILOSOPHY

4 Homer 5 Hesiod 6 Aesop

PART III: THE PRE-SOCRATICS AND SOCRATICS

7 Thales of Miletus 8 Anaximander of Miletus 9 Sappho of Lesbos 10 Pythagoras 11 Xenophanes 12 Aeschylus 13 Anaxagoras of Clazomenae 14 Heraclitus 15 Parmenides 16 Empedocles 17 Protagoras of Abdera and Plato’s Protagoras 18 The Sophists 19 Zeno of Elea 20 Sophocles 21 Euripides 22 Herodotus 23 Diotima of Mantineia 24 Hippocrates of Cos 25 Socrates 26 Thucydides 27 Democritus

PART IV: THE CLASSICAL PERIOD

28 Aristophanes 29 Plato 30 Plato’s Symposium 31 The Anonymous Iamblichi 32 Diogenes of Sinope 33 Eudoxus of Cnidus 34 Aristotle

PART V: THE HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHERS

35 Theophrastus of Eresus 36 Pyrrho 37 Epicurus 38 Zeno of Citium 39 Archimedes 40 Aristarchus of Samos 41 Cameades 42 Lucretius 43 Seneca the Younger 44 Apollonius of Tyana

PART VI: THE ROMAN PERIOD

45 Epictetus 46 Apuleius of Madauros 47 Marcus Aurelius 48 Plotinus 49 Sextus Empiricus 50 Iamblichus of Chalcis 51 Anthony of Egypt and The Desert Fathers 52 Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea 53 Hypatia of Alexandria 54 Proclus 55 John Philoponus 56 The Closure of the Academy of Athens

PART VII: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES

57 The Athenian Acropolis 58 The Athenian Agora 59 Corinth 60 Delphi 61 Didyma 62 Eleusis 63 Epidaurus 64 Marathon 65 Miletus 66 Ancient Olympia: Athletic Games and Intellectual Contests 67 Piraeus 68 Samos 69 Syracuse 70 Troy and Heinrich Schliemann

Glossary Time Line of ancient authors

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