Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-77503-8 - The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy Edited by David Sedley Frontmatter More information the cambridge companion to GREEK AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philoso- phy is a wide-ranging introduction to the study of philos- ophy in the ancient world. A team of leading specialists surveys the developments of the period and evaluates a com- prehensive series of major thinkers, ranging from Pythagoras to Epicurus. There are also separate chapters on how philos- ophy in the ancient world interacted with religion, literature and science, and a final chapter traces the seminal influence of Greek and Roman philosophy down to the seventeenth century. Practical elements such as tables, illustrations, a glossary, and extensive advice on further reading make it an ideal book to accompany survey courses on the history of ancient philosophy. 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Information regarding prices, travel timetables, and other factual information given in this work is correct at the time of first printing but Cambridge University Press does not guarantee the accuracy of such information thereafter. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-77503-8 - The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy Edited by David Sedley Frontmatter More information contents List of illustrations and charts page ix List of contributors x Acknowledgements xiv Map of the Greek world xv Introduction 1 david sedley 1 Argument in ancient philosophy 20 jonathan barnes 2 The Presocratics 42 malcolm schofield 3 The Sophists and Socrates 73 sarah broadie 4 Plato 98 christopher rowe 5 Aristotle 125 john m. cooper 6 Hellenistic philosophy 151 jacques brunschwig and david sedley 7 Roman philosophy 184 a. a. long 8 Philosophy and literature 211 martha c. nussbaum vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-77503-8 - The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy Edited by David Sedley Frontmatter More information viii Contents 9 Late ancient philosophy 242 frans a. j. de haas 10 Philosophy and science 271 r. j. hankinson 11 Philosophy and religion 300 glenn w. most 12 The legacy of ancient philosophy 323 jill kraye Bibliography 353 Glossary 373 Index 386 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-77503-8 - The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy Edited by David Sedley Frontmatter More information illustrations and charts Map of the Greek world page xv The Athenian philosophical schools 10 Transmission of a text: Plato, Phaedo 83b4–715 Presocratic philosophers 45 Socrates in conversation with sophists 90 The Platonic dialogues 99 The Aristotelian corpus 127 The Aristotelian syllogism 136 Roman philosophical writers 187 Philosophical commentaries 246 ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-77503-8 - The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy Edited by David Sedley Frontmatter More information contributors jonathan barnes is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Paris-iv Sorbonne, having previously taught at the Uni- versity of Oxford for twenty-five years, and subsequently at the Uni- versity of Geneva. His most recent books are Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Scepticism (with Julia Annas, 1994), The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle (ed., 1995), Logic and the Imperial Stoa (1997), The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy (co-edited with Keimpe Algra, Jaap Mansfeld and Malcolm Schofield, 1999), and Porphyry, Introduction (2003). sarah broadie is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. Her earlier work (as Sarah Waterlow) included Nature, Agency and Change in Aristotle’s Physics (1982) and Passage and Possibility: A Study of Aristotle’s Modal Concepts (1982). More re- cently she has published Ethics with Aristotle (1991), and a com- mentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics accompanying a new translation by Christopher Rowe (2002). She is currently working on Plato. jacques brunschwig is Professor Emeritus of Ancient Philoso- phy at the University of Paris-i. He is the author of Aristote, Topiques (vol. i, 1967; vol. ii currently in progress), and his most recent books are Papers in Hellenistic Philosophy (1994) and (co-edited with G. E. R. Lloyd) Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge (2000). His main current interests are Aristotle and Stoicism. john m. cooper is Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. His most recent books are Plato: Complete Works (ed., 1997), and Reason and Emotion: Essays on Ancient Moral x © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-77503-8 - The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy Edited by David Sedley Frontmatter More information List of contributors xi Psychology and Ethical Theory (1999). A second collection of his papers, Stoic Autonomy and Other Essays on Ancient Philosophy, is forthcoming. frans a. j. de haas is Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philos- ophy at the University of Leiden. He is the author of John Philo- ponus’ New Definition of Prime Matter. Aspects of its Background in Neoplatonism and the Ancient Commentary Tradition (1997).