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Author : Peter Adamson
Release : 2015
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds by : Peter Adamson
Download or read book Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds written by Peter Adamson. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of philosophy without any gaps. Volume 2, Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds by Peter Adamson (2015).
Author : Peter Adamson
Release : 2014-06
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 531/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Classical Philosophy by : Peter Adamson
Download or read book Classical Philosophy written by Peter Adamson. This book was released on 2014-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readership: Anyone interested in philosophy, the history of ideas, or the ancient Greek world
Author : Teresa Morgan
Release : 1998
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds by : Teresa Morgan
Download or read book Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds written by Teresa Morgan. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an assessment of the content, structures and significance of education in Greek and Roman society. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, including the first systematic comparison of literary sources with the papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt, Teresa Morgan shows how education developed from a loose repertoire of practices in classical Greece into a coherent system spanning the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. She examines the teaching of literature, grammar and rhetoric across a range of social groups and proposes a model of how the system was able both to maintain its coherence and to accommodate pupils' widely different backgrounds, needs and expectations. In addition Dr Morgan explores Hellenistic and Roman theories of cognitive development, showing how educationalists claimed to turn the raw material of humanity into good citizens and leaders of society.
Author : Peter Adamson
Release : 2015-08-27
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds by : Peter Adamson
Download or read book Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds written by Peter Adamson. This book was released on 2015-08-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and Skeptics, Epicureans and Stoics, emperors and slaves, and traces the development of Christian and Jewish philosophy and of ancient science. Chapters are devoted to such major figures as Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, Plotinus, and Augustine. But in keeping with the motto of the series, the story is told 'without any gaps,' providing an in-depth look at less familiar topics that remains suitable for the general reader. For instance, there are chapters on the fascinating but relatively obscure Cyrenaic philosophical school, on pagan philosophical figures like Porphyry and Iamblichus, and extensive coverage of the Greek and Latin Christian Fathers who are at best peripheral in most surveys of ancient philosophy. A major theme of the book is in fact the competition between pagan and Christian philosophy in this period, and the Jewish tradition also appears in the shape of Philo of Alexandria. Ancient science is also considered, with chapters on ancient medicine and the interaction between philosophy and astronomy. Considerable attention is paid also to the wider historical context, for instance by looking at the ascetic movement in Christianity and how it drew on ideas from Hellenic philosophy. From the counter-cultural witticisms of Diogenes the Cynic to the subtle skepticism of Sextus Empiricus, from the irreverent atheism of the Epicureans to the ambitious metaphysical speculation of Neoplatonism, from the ethical teachings of Marcus Aurelius to the political philosophy of Augustine, the book gathers together all aspects of later ancient thought in an accessible and entertaining way.
Author : Keimpe Algra
Release : 1999-12-09
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy by : Keimpe Algra
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy written by Keimpe Algra. This book was released on 1999-12-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full account of the philosophy of the Greek and Roman worlds from the last days of Aristotle (c.320 BC) until 100 BC. Hellenistic philosophy, for long relatively neglected and unappreciated, has over the last decade been the object of a considerable amount of scholarly attention. Now available in paperback, this 1999 volume is a general reference work which pulls the subject together and presents an overview. The History is organised by subject, rather than chronologically or by philosophical school, with sections on logic, epistemology, physics and metaphysics, ethics and politics. It has been written by specialists but is intended to be a source of reference for any student of ancient philosophy, for students of classical antiquity and for students of the philosophy of later periods. Greek and Latin are used sparingly and always translated in the main text.
