The Traveller's Guide to Classical Philosophy.

Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Note to the Reader -- Part I: The Idea of Hellenism: What the Greeks Created -- 1 The Scheme of Things Entire -- 2 The Idea of Hellenism -- 3 Wine, Sex and the Symposium -- 4 Theatres: Festivals, Entertainments and Meetings -- 5 Temples: Gods, Feasts and Safe Deposits -- Part II: The Ideal of Homer and the Ideas of the Philosophers -- 1 Troy: The Legend and the Book -- 2 Troy: The Book and the Ideals -- 3 Miletus: The Nature of the Universe -- 4 Ionia and Western Greece: Laws, Numbers and Reality -- 5 Athens: Socrates, Plato and Other Worlds -- 6 Aristotle and this World: Nature, Life and Ethics -- 7 Epicurus: The Garden and the Wilderness -- 8 Stoicism: Duty and the Laws of Nature -- 9 Neoplatonism: The Last Protest -- 10 The End of Classical Antiquity -- Part III: Cities and Citizens: A Gazetteer -- Abdera -- Acragas -- Alexandria -- Aphrodisias -- Assos -- Athens -- Chalcedon -- Chios -- Clazomenae -- Cnidus -- Colophon -- Croton -- Cyrene -- Elea -- Ephesus -- Halicarnassus -- Herculaneum -- Kos -- Lesbos (Mytilene) -- Miletus -- Oinoanda -- Pergamon -- Priene -- Rhodes -- Rome -- Samos -- Stageira -- Troy -- Maps -- Copyright.

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