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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... writings on medical topics are attributed to Theophrastus and Strato , and several sections of the pseudo - Artistotelian Problêmata are devoted to questions of this kind . There can be no doubt that there was some interchange of ideas ...
... writings functioned both as models for his students to emulate and as popular essays aimed at influencing current events . All of his educational writings have survived except for portions of Against the Sophists . A lost Art of ...
... writings are strongly indebted to Zeno . They come to us from the so - called Villa of the Pisones at Herculaneum . Charred and buried in the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 C.E. , the texts were excavated in the mid - eighteenth century ...
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