Ancient Mediterranean philosophy : an introduction /: an introduction. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Stephen R.L. Clark.
• Other Names: Clark, Stephen R. L
• Contents: 1 Beginnings -- Pre-historical speculations -- Mythos and logos -- Gods of the Greeks and others -- Nature and spirit confounded -- 2 Influence from outside -- Tales from the East -- Tales from the South -- Tales from the North -- Tales from the past -- 3 Inspired thinkers -- Seeking the unseen -- Sicilians and Italians -- Philosophers and Jews -- 4 Travellers and stay-at-homes -- Custom, dictat and advantage -- Protagoras and Socrates -- Purity and the practice of death -- 5 Divine Plato -- Reading the dialogues -- Forms -- Two worlds or one -- Politics -- 6 The Aristotelian synthesis -- 'The master of them that know' -- Slaves and citizens -- Post-Aristotelian centuries -- 7 Living the philosophical life -- Stoics and Cynics -- Hebrews and Zoroastrians -- Epicureans and Buddhists -- 8 Ordinary and supernatural lives -- Abstract virtues and the Romans -- Sons of God -- Divination and technology -- Philosophy and foolosophies -- 9 Late antiquity -- Fixed stars and planets, and an escape from Fate -- Classical and Magian culture -- The way we didn't take -- 10 An end and a beginning.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 180; Philosophy, Ancient; PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical; Philosophy, Ancient; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441148865; 1441148868; 9781441147547; 1441147543
• Related ISBNs: 1441101888; 1441123598; 9781441101884; 9781441123596
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.