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The traveller's guide to classical philosophy/ John Gaskin.

By: Gaskin, John.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2019Edition: This edition published in 2019.Description: 192 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780500294734.Subject(s): Philosophy, Ancient | Philosophy and civilization | Classical antiquities | Civilization, Classical | Hellenism
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
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Includes index.

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

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