Encyclopedia of Classical PhilosophyDonald J. Zeyl, Daniel Devereux, Phillip Mitsis The only encyclopedia in English specific to the field of Classical Philosophy, this work presents 270 articles on major and minor figures and on topics of importance to the philosophy of Greek and Roman antiquity. The articles present not only succinct historical accounts of their subject matter, but they introduce readers to issues of interpretation and debate in the contemporary scholarly study of the philosophy of the Classical period. Scholars, students, and interested lay persons will find this volume useful in gaining a comprehensive view of the field. The contributors, representing three continents, are themselves leading scholars of international stature. |
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... Philo and Antiochus . Clitomachus was succeeded by Philo of Larissa , who seems to have been a skeptic when he studied under Clitomachus ; his most notable students included Antiochus of Ascalon and Cicero . It looks as if it was at ...
... Philo of Alexandria ( c . 15 B.C.E. - 40 C.E. ) , who exercised a decisive influence on the development of Christian thought . Any account of the Christian encounter with classical thought must begin with him . Philo is credited with ...
... Philo died , he had influenced * Cicero considerably . Philo belonged to the same tradition as * Carneades and Clitomachus , though it would be inaccurate to refer to him as a * skeptic . While he maintained the battle against the Stoic ...
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