The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy

Author: Keimpe Algra, Jonathan Barnes, Jaap Mansfeld and Malcolm Schofield (editors)
Title: The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy
Publication: UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999
Edition: 1st

Description: Hardcover. Used very good hardcover in a very good dust jacket. Front cover top edge has a 0.5 cm closed tear. Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes sources, synopsis of principle events, editions of sources and fragments, list of abbreviations, chronology, doxography, bibliography, Index locorum, and a general index. 916 pp.

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The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy offers a full account of the philosophy of the Greek and Roman worlds from the last days of Aristotle (d. 322 BC) until 100 BC, and is as comprehensive as the often fragmentary evidence allows. Hellenistic philosophy, for long relatively neglected and unappreciated, has over the last two decades been the object of a considerable amount of scholarly attention. Detailed works have been pub-lished, but the time has now come for a general reference work which pulls the subject together and presents an overview. The volume is organised by subject rather than chronologically or by philosophical schools, and so there are sections on logic, episte-mology, physics and metaphysics, ethics and politics. This makes it easier to present the vigorous debate and dissension between the different schools which characterised the Hellenistic age. The History has been written by specialists but it is intended to be a source of reference for any student of ancient philosophy, amateur or professional, for students of classical antiquity and for students of philosophy of later periods. Greek and Latin are used sparingly and always translated in the main text.

Seller ID: 203574

Subject: From the Library of Peter Green, Greece , Philosophy