The unity of mankind in Greek thought / by H.C. Baldry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baldry, H. C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient.

Philosophical anthropology--History.

Philosophical anthropology.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 223 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] : University Press, 1965.

Contents:

I. Introduction

II. From Homer to Hippocrates

The Homeric pattern; Expansion of the known world; Greeks and barbarians; First theories of unity; Late fifth-century changes; The Sophists; Thucycides and the medical writers

III. Socrates and the fourth century

Socrates; Democritus; The fourth century; Xenophon; Isocrates; Plato; Aristotle; The cynics

IV. Alexander and his influence

Alexander the Great; After Alexander; Menander

V. The Hellenistic philosophers

The Peripatetics; The Epicureans; The early Stoics

VI. The impact of Rome

Eratosthenes; Polybius; The Middle Stoa; Cicero.

Notes:

"Notes and references": pages 204-212.

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1966

OCLC:

674500