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Uniform Title Savoir grec. English.
Title Greek thought : a guide to classical knowledge / edited by Jacques Brunschwig and Geoffrey E.R. Lloyd, with the collaboration of Pierre Pellegrin ; translated under the direction of Catherine Porter.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  938 GRE    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  938 G793G    Check Shelf
Description xv, 1024 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm.
Series Harvard University Press reference library
Harvard University Press reference library.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Philosophy. The philosopher ; Images of the world ; Myth and knowledge ; The question of being ; Epistemology ; Ethics -- Politics. The statesman as political actor ; Inventing politics ; Utopia and the critique of politics ; The sage and politics -- The pursuit of knowledge. Schools and sites of learning ; Observation and research ; Demonstration and the idea of science ; Astronomy ; Cosmology ; Geography ; Harmonics ; History ; Language ; Logic ; Mathematics ; Medicine ; Physics ; Poetics ; Rhetoric ; Technology ; Theology and divination ; Theories of religion -- Major figures. Anaxagoras ; Antisthenes ; Archimedes ; Aristotle ; Democritus ; Epicurus ; Euclid ; Galen ; Heraclitus ; Herodotus ; Hippocrates ; Parmenides ; Plato ; Plotinus ; Plutarch ; Polybius ; Protagoras ; Ptolemy ; Pyrrhon ; Socrates ; Thucydides ; Xenophon ; Zeno -- Currents of thought. The academy ; Aristotelianism ; Cynicism ; Hellenism and Christianity ; Hellenism and Judaism ; The Milesians ; Platonism ; Pythagoreanism ; Skepticism ; Sophists ; Stoicism.
Subject Greece -- Intellectual life -- To 146 B.C.
Greece -- Politics and government -- To 146 B.C.
Intellectuals -- Greece -- Biography.
Thought and thinking.
Added Author Brunschwig, Jacques.
Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933-
Pellegrin, Pierre.
ISBN 067400261X alkaline paper
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