num_pages: 416
description: Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In this volume drawn from the reference work Greek A Guide to Classical Knowledge , major scholars take up basic topics in philosophy and science, offering an account of the extraordinary explosion of desire for knowledge in the classical Greek world.
language: English
title: The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge
titlecomplete: The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press