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Translated by Henrik Rosenmeier, A History of Ancient Philosophy charts the origins and development of ancient philosophical thought. For easy reference, the book is divided chronologically into six main parts. The sections are further divided into philosophers and philosophical movements:
Pre-Socratic Philosophy, including mythology, the Pythagoreans and Parmenides
The Great Century of Athens, including the Sophists and Socrates
Plato, including The Republic, The Symposium and The Timaeus
Aristotle, including The Physics, The Metaphysics and The Poetics
Hellenistic Philosophy, including the Sceptics, the Stoics, the Epicureans and Cicero
Late Antiquity, including Neoplatonism, Origen and St Augustine.
This comprehensive and meticulously documented book is structured to make ancient philosophical thought and ancient thinkers accessible. It contains:
full references to primary sources
detailed interpretations of key philosophical passages, including surveys of previous philosophical readings
an overview of the development of ancient philosophical thought
discussions of the relationships between philosophers and their ideas
analyses of key philosophical concepts and ideologies including ontology, epistemology, logic, semantics, moral and political philosophy, theology and aesthetics
explanations of Greek philosophical terminology.

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A History of Ancient Philosophy

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