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From beginning to end this is a feast of reason. The book makes abundant use of tables to present large amounts of complex material economically—lists of Plato's dialogues indicate topics, speakers and lengths; Roman philosophers are displayed with biographical notes, school affiliations, and major works; philosophical commentators are given with date and the author and work commented on; nineteen Presocratics are adorned with birthplace, date, key ideas and thumbnail comments.

Many of the chapters cultivate an elegant but economical style which must be due in part to editorial encouragement and example. Though it is bound to skip over much, it avoids even the appearance of superficiality. Jill Kraye's chapter on "The legacy of ancient philosophy" to the medieval and modern world is a masterpiece of clarity and compression as well as a superb piece of intellectual history. Kraye's survey concludes the volume.

Sedley's substantial introduction begins it by motivating the study of ancient philosophy through two characteristic questions, "What is a good human life? Jonathan Barnes opens ch. Similarly thematic chapters on "Philosophy and literature" ch. Hankinson and "Philosophy and religion" ch.

Hankinson splendidly communicates the scientific agenda of the ancient world, perhaps over-emphasizing the mathematical sciences, Galen and scientific epistemology at the cost of "scientific" writers like Strabo, Pliny, and Vitruvius. Nussbaum concentrates on the fourth century B. Most's essay explores the interpenetration of religious themes with the philosophical emphasizing how differently pagan religion interacted with philosophy than does any modern faith and adds an acute though exaggerated set of observations on the religious quality of the ancient philosophical way of life.

It would be hard to locate the saintly sages Most presents as typical in the logical landscape evoked by Barnes. The remaining chapters cover periods and major figures. Malcolm Schofield on the Presocratics ch.

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Long on Roman ch. The authors are all eloquent authorities and it's a menu with no bad choices—though I'm sure my undergraduates will find Cooper's treatment of the figures of Aristotle's syllogisms indigestible. I found Rowe's careful balance of old and new in his introduction to It will be an invaluable guide for all who are interested in the philosophical thought of this rich and formative period.

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A Very Short Introduction. The Story of Philosophy. De Anima On the Soul. A Short History of Ethics. Greek Philosophy - Simple Guides. The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics. The Everything Guide to Understanding Philosophy. Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism. The Routledge Guidebook to Plato's Republic. The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism.

A Guide for the Perplexed. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism. How To Read Plato. The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism. Knowledge, Nature, and the Good. The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic.

Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy. Parmenides and Presocratic Philosophy. The Last Days of Socrates. The Platonic Art of Philosophy. The Presocratics and Sophists. A New Aristotle Reader. How To Read Ancient Philosophy. The Polity of the Lacedaemonians Illustrated. Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics. Plato and the Stoics. The Nature of the Gods. Spinoza and the Stoics. The Cambridge Companion to Plato.

A History of Pythagoreanism. Hegel and Greek Tragedy. The Philosophy of Epictetus. Greek Thought and the Origins of the Scientific Spirit.