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The Greek pursuit of knowledge

edited by Jacques Brunschwig and Geoffrey E.R. Lloyd ; with the collaboration of Pierre Pellegrin ; translated under the direction of Catherine Porter

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003

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Le savoir grec : dictionnaire critique

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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 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.

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Translators' Note Introduction Maps The Philosopher Epistemology Schools and Sites of Learning Observation and Research Demonstration and the Idea of Science Astronomy Cosmology Geography Harmonics History Language Logic Mathematics Medicine Physics Poetics Rhetoric Technology Theology and Divination Theories of Religion Chronology Contributors Index

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