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Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ancient Greek Philosophy but didn’t Know Who to Ask Edited by Patricia F. O’Grady MEET THE PHILOSOPHERS OF ANCIENT GREECE Dedicated to the memory of Panagiotis, a humble man, who found pleasure when reading about the philosophers of Ancient Greece Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece Everything you always wanted to know about Ancient Greek philosophy but didn’t know who to ask Edited by PATRICIA F. O’GRADY Flinders University of South Australia © Patricia F. O’Grady 2005 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Patricia F. O’Grady has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identi.ed as the editor of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Ashgate Publishing Company Wey Court East Suite 420 Union Road 101 Cherry Street Farnham Burlington Surrey, GU9 7PT VT 05401-4405 England USA Ashgate website: http://www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Meet the philosophers of ancient Greece: everything you always wanted to know about ancient Greek philosophy but didn’t know who to ask 1. Philosophy, Ancient 2. Philosophers – Greece 3. Greece – Intellectual life – To 146 B.C. I. O’Grady, Patricia F. 180 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Meet the philosophers of ancient Greece: everything you always wanted to know about ancient Greek philosophy but didn’t know who to ask / Patricia F. O’Grady, editor. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7546-5131-2 (hardcover: alk. paper) – ISBN 0-7546-5132-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Philosophy, Ancient. I. O’Grady, Patricia F. B171.M44 2005 18D—dc22 2004021055 ISBN 0 7546 5131 2 (hb) ISBN 0 7546 5132 0 (ppk) V ISBN 978 1 4094 2320 1 (ebk) Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall Contents List of Contributors xi Acknowledgements xv Foreword xvii List of Maps and Photographs xix List of Figures xxi PART I: INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS 1 Introduction 3 Alan Chalmers 2 What is Philosophy? 7 Trevor Curnow 3 What Greek Philosophy Means to Us Today 9 Ian Hunt PART II: ThE PRECURSORS Of PhILOSOPhY 4 Homer 15 Seamus Sweeney 5 Hesiod 21 Aude Engel 6 Aesop 25 Leo Groarke PART III: ThE PRE-SOCRATICS AND SOCRATICS 7 Thales of Miletus 29 Patricia F. O’Grady 8 Anaximander of Miletus 33 Dirk L. Couprie and Heleen J. Pott vi Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece 9 Sappho of Lesbos 39 Christina A. Clark 10 Pythagoras 43 Thomas Kiefer 11 Xenophanes 49 Hye-Kyung Kim 12 Aeschylus 53 Seamus Sweeney 13 Anaxagoras of Clazomenae 59 Patricia F. O’Grady 14 Heraclitus 63 G.S. Bowe 15 Parmenides 67 Allan F. Randall 16 Empedocles 71 James M. Magrini 17 Protagoras of Abdera and Plato’s Protagoras 77 Jonathan Lavery 18 The Sophists 81 Jonathan Lavery 19 Zeno of Elea 85 Doukas Kapantaïs 20 Sophocles 89 James M. Magrini 21 Euripides 93 Seamus Sweeney 22 Herodotus 97 Christine Farmer 23 Diotima of Mantineia 101 Melanie B. Mineo Contents vii 24 Hippocrates of Cos 105 Andrew Gregory 25 Socrates 109 Hope May 26 Thucydides 113 Matthew Usher 27 Democritus 117 Alan Chalmers PART IV: ThE CLASSICAL PERIOD 28 Aristophanes 123 Robert Phiddian 29 Plato 127 Gerasimos Santas 30 Plato’s Symposium 133 Steven R. Robinson 31 The Anonymous Iamblichi 137 Louis Groarke 32 Diogenes of Sinope 139 Marjolein Oele 33 Eudoxus of Cnidus 143 Andrew Gregory 34 Aristotle 151 Hope May PART V: ThE hELLENISTIC PhILOSOPhERS 35 Theophrastus of Eresus 159 Irene Svitzou 36 Pyrrho 163 Leo Groarke viii Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece 37 Epicurus 167 Dirk Baltzly 38 Zeno of Citium 171 Maria Protopapas-Mameli 39 Archimedes 175 Suzanne Roux 40 Aristarchus of Samos 179 Andrew Gregory 41 Cameades 185 G.S. Bowe 42 Lucretius 189 Tim O’Keefe 43 Seneca the Younger 193 Kartika Panwar 44 Apollonius of Tyana 197 Gabriele Cornelli PART VI: ThE ROMAN PERIOD 45 Epictetus 203 Keith Seddon 46 Apuleius of Madauros 207 Bruce J. MacLennan 47 Marcus Aurelius 211 William O. Stephens 48 Plotinus 215 David J. Yount 49 Sextus Empiricus 219 Sabatino DiBernardo 50 Iamblichus of Chalcis 223 Bruce J. MacLennan Contents ix 51 Anthony of Egypt and The Desert Fathers 227 Louis Groarke 52 Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea 231 Linos G. Benakis 53 Hypatia of Alexandria 235 Virginia Haddad 54 Proclus 239 Dirk Baltzly 55 John Philoponus 243 Antonia Kakavelaki 56 The Closure of the Academy of Athens 247 George Arabatzis PART VII: ARChAEOLOGICAL SITES 57 The Athenian Acropolis 253 Evanthia Speliotis 58 The Athenian Agora 257 Kevin Glowacki 59 Corinth 261 G.S. Bowe 60 Delphi 265 Deborah Nash Peterson 61 Didyma 269 Peter Sommer 62 Eleusis 273 Anne Farrell 63 Epidaurus 277 Glenn Rawson 64 Marathon 281 Trevor Curnow
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