The Greek pursuit of knowledge
By: edited by Jacques Brunschwig and Geoffrey E.R. Lloyd ; with the collaboration of Pierre Pellegrin ; translated under the direction of Catherine Porter.
Contributors: Brunschwig, Jacques.; Lloyd, G. E. R. 1933-; Pellegrin, Pierre.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Belknap Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
Subjects: Thought and thinking -- History -- To 1500.; Greece -- Intellectual life -- To 146 B.C.
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 book drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.