The Traveller's Guide to Classical Philosophy - Hardcover

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This is the perfect primer for anyone interested in the foundation of Western thought and a unique companion for visitors to Greek and Roman sites. John Gaskin unfolds the thinking about nature, life, death and other worlds that informed the culture and society of the classical world – still visible in today’s cityscapes and archaeological sites – and draws out its relevance and interest for the modern reader. The author associates each philosopher and his ideas with a particular tourist destination, and a gazetteer describes the sites and notes the people and ideas connected with them.

Table of Contents

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 • Calchedon • Chios • Clazomenae • Cnidus • Colophon • Croton • Cyrene • Elea • Ephesus • Halicarnassus • Herculaneum • Kos • Lesbos (Mytilene) • Miletus • Oinoanda • Pergamon • Priene • Rhodes • Rome • Samos • Stageira • Troy

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