ABSTRACT
The Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy is a reference work on the philosophy of Greek and Roman antiquity. It includes subjects and figures from the dawn of philosophy in Ionia in the 6th century BC to the demise of the Academy in Athens in the 6th century AD. Scholarly study of the texts and philosophical thought of this period has been, during the last half of the 20th century, amazingly productive and has become increasingly sophisticated. The 269 articles in the encyclopedia reflect this development.
While the majority of the articles are devoted to individual figures, many of the articles are thematic surveys of broad areas such as epistemology, ethics, and political thought. Some articles focus on particular concepts that evoked significant philosophical treatment by the ancients, and have proved central to later thought. Other articles treat fields that are no longer considered part of philosophy proper, such as mathematics and science. There are articles examining areas of intellectual or cultural endeavour, such as poetry or rhetoric, or genres of philosophical expression, such as dialogue and diatribe. Still others describe the historical developments of philosophical schools and traditions. The encyclopedia includes a chronology and guide to further reading.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |113 pages
A
entry |5 pages
Academy
entry |1 pages
Aelian
entry |2 pages
Aenesidemus
entry |1 pages
Aeschines
entry |1 pages
Aeschylus
entry |8 pages
AESTHETICS, Classical
entry |1 pages
Aëtius
entry |1 pages
Agrippa
entry |1 pages
Albinus
entry |1 pages
Alcinous
entry |2 pages
Alcmaeon
entry |2 pages
Alexander
entry |1 pages
Alexinus
entry |3 pages
ALLEGORY, Classical.
entry |1 pages
Amelius
entry |1 pages
Ammonius
entry |1 pages
Ammonius Saccas
entry |3 pages
Anaxagoras
entry |1 pages
Anaxarchus
entry |2 pages
Anaximander
entry |1 pages
Anaximenes
entry |2 pages
Andronicus
entry |1 pages
Anniceris
entry |1 pages
Anonymus Iamblichi
entry |2 pages
Antiochus
entry |2 pages
Antipater
entry |1 pages
Antipater
entry |2 pages
Antiphon
entry |1 pages
Antisthenes
entry |1 pages
Antisthenes
entry |1 pages
Apollodorus
entry |1 pages
Apollodorus
entry |1 pages
Apollonius
entry |1 pages
Apuleius
entry |2 pages
Arcesilaus
entry |1 pages
Archedemus
entry |1 pages
Archelaus
entry |3 pages
Archimedes
entry |1 pages
Archytas
entry |1 pages
Aristarchus
entry |1 pages
Aristippus
entry |1 pages
Aristippus
entry |1 pages
Aristo
entry |1 pages
Aristo
entry |1 pages
Aristocles
entry |1 pages
Aristophanes
entry |4 pages
Aristotelian Commentators
entry |6 pages
Aristotelianism
entry |28 pages
Aristotle
entry |2 pages
Aristoxenus
entry |1 pages
Arius Didymus
entry |1 pages
Aspasius
entry |1 pages
Astronomy
entry |1 pages
Atheism
entry |1 pages
Athenaeus
entry |1 pages
Athenodorus
entry |1 pages
Atomism
entry |10 pages
AUGUSTINE, St
entry |3 pages
Aurelius
letter |5 pages
B
entry |1 pages
Being
entry |1 pages
Bion
entry |3 pages
Boethius
entry |1 pages
Boethus
entry |1 pages
Boethus
entry |1 pages
Bryson
letter |47 pages
C
entry |2 pages
Calcidius
entry |1 pages
Callipho
entry |2 pages
Carneades
entry |1 pages
Cassius
entry |2 pages
Celsus
entry |1 pages
Chaldean oracles.
entry |4 pages
Change
entry |6 pages
Christianity
entry |4 pages
Chrysippus
entry |3 pages
Cicero
entry |3 pages
Cleanthes
entry |2 pages
Clement
entry |1 pages
Cleomedes
entry |1 pages
Clitomachus
entry |1 pages
Colotes
entry |1 pages
Commentaries/commentators.
entry |1 pages
Cornutus
entry |1 pages
Corpus Hermeticum
entry |4 pages
COSMOLOGY, Classical.
entry |2 pages
Grantor
entry |1 pages
Crates
entry |1 pages
Crates
entry |1 pages
Crates
entry |2 pages
Cratylus
entry |1 pages
Critias
entry |1 pages
Critolaus
entry |2 pages
CYNICS and CYNICISM.
entry |1 pages
Cynosarges
entry |3 pages
Cyrenaic Philosophy
letter |36 pages
D
entry |2 pages
Damascius
entry |1 pages
Damon
entry |1 pages
Dardanus
entry |1 pages
Demetrius
entry |1 pages
Demetrius
entry |3 pages
Democritus
entry |1 pages
Demonax
entry |1 pages
Dexippus
entry |3 pages
Dialectic
entry |1 pages
Dialectical School
entry |2 pages
DIALOGUE, Greek.
entry |1 pages
DIALOGUE, Latin.
entry |2 pages
Diatribe
entry |1 pages
Dicaearchus
entry |1 pages
DIOCLES of Carystus.
entry |1 pages
Diocles
entry |2 pages
Diodorus Cronus
entry |2 pages
Diogenes
entry |1 pages
DIOGENES of Babylon.
entry |2 pages
Diogenes Laertius
entry |1 pages
Diogenes
entry |1 pages
Diogenes
entry |2 pages
Diogenes
entry |2 pages
Diogenes
entry |1 pages
Diogenes
entry |1 pages
Dionysius
entry |1 pages
DIONYSIUS the Areopagite.
entry |1 pages
Dionysodgrus
entry |2 pages
Dissoi logoi,
entry |2 pages
Doxography
letter |38 pages
E
entry |2 pages
Eleatic School
entry |3 pages
Empedocles
entry |2 pages
Epictetus
entry |6 pages
Epicureanism
entry |5 pages
Epicurus
entry |1 pages
Epistemology
entry |1 pages
Erasistratus
entry |1 pages
Eratosthenes
entry |1 pages
Eretrian School
entry |1 pages
Eristic
entry |8 pages
ETHICAL THOUGHT, Classical.
entry |1 pages
Eubulides
entry |2 pages
Euclid
entry |3 pages
Euclides
entry |1 pages
Eudaimonia
entry |1 pages
Eudemus
entry |1 pages
Eudorus
entry |2 pages
Eudoxus
entry |1 pages
Eudromus
entry |1 pages
Eunapius
entry |1 pages
Euripides
entry |1 pages
Euthydemus
entry |1 pages
Excellence, virtue (aretê).
letter |16 pages
G
entry |5 pages
Galen
entry |1 pages
Geminus
entry |2 pages
Gnosticism
entry |1 pages
GOOD, The.
entry |2 pages
Gorgias
entry |3 pages
Grammar
entry |3 pages
Gymnasium
letter |26 pages
H
entry |1 pages
Happiness (eudaimonia)
entry |1 pages
Hecataeus
entry |1 pages
Hecato
entry |1 pages
Hegesias
entry |1 pages
Heraclides
entry |1 pages
Heraclides
entry |1 pages
Heraclitus
entry |2 pages
Heraclitus
entry |1 pages
Herillus
entry |1 pages
Hermarchus
entry |2 pages
Hermetica
entry |1 pages
Herodotus
entry |1 pages
Herophilus
entry |2 pages
Hesiod
entry |1 pages
Hierocles
entry |1 pages
Hierocles
entry |1 pages
Hieronymus
entry |1 pages
Hipparchia
entry |1 pages
Hippias
entry |1 pages
Hippo
entry |1 pages
Hippocrates
entry |2 pages
Hippocrates
entry |2 pages
Hippolytus
entry |2 pages
Homer
entry |1 pages
Hypatia
letter |7 pages
I
entry |2 pages
Iamblichus
entry |4 pages
INFINITE, The
entry |1 pages
Isocrates
letter |8 pages
K
entry |8 pages
KNOWLEDGE, Classical Theories of
letter |16 pages
L
entry |2 pages
Lacydes
entry |1 pages
Leucippus
entry |6 pages
Logic
entry |3 pages
Logos
entry |2 pages
Lucian
entry |2 pages
Lucretius
entry |1 pages
LYCEUM, The.
entry |1 pages
Lyco
letter |39 pages
M
entry |2 pages
Manichaeanism
entry |1 pages
Manilius
entry |1 pages
Marcus Aurelius
entry |7 pages
MATHEMATICS, Earlier Greek.
entry |3 pages
MATTER, Classical Theories of.
entry |1 pages
Maximus
entry |3 pages
MEDICINE, Ancient Theories of.
entry |2 pages
Megarian School
entry |2 pages
Melissus
entry |1 pages
Menedemus
entry |1 pages
Menedemus
entry |1 pages
Menelaus
entry |1 pages
Menippus
entry |8 pages
METAPHYSICAL THOUGHT, Classical.
entry |1 pages
Metrodorus
entry |1 pages
Metrodorus
entry |1 pages
Metrodorus
entry |1 pages
Middle Platonism
entry |5 pages
MIND, Classical Theories of.
entry |1 pages
Minor Socratics
entry |1 pages
Mnesarchus
entry |1 pages
Monimus
entry |1 pages
Musonius Rufus
letter |4 pages
N
entry |1 pages
Nausiphanes
entry |1 pages
Nemesius
entry |1 pages
Neoplatonism
entry |1 pages
Neopythagoreanism
entry |1 pages
Nicomachus
entry |1 pages
Numenius
letter |5 pages
O
entry |2 pages
Oenomaus
entry |1 pages
Oenopides
entry |1 pages
"Old oligarch"
entry |1 pages
Olympiodorus
entry |1 pages
Origen
entry |1 pages
Origen
letter |111 pages
P
entry |3 pages
Panaetius
entry |1 pages
Panthoides
entry |6 pages
Parmenides
entry |4 pages
Peripatetic School
entry |1 pages
Persaeus
entry |1 pages
Phaedo
entry |1 pages
Phaedrus
entry |1 pages
Phaedrus
entry |1 pages
Pherecydes
entry |2 pages
Philo
entry |2 pages
Philo
entry |1 pages
PHILO the Dialectician
entry |1 pages
Philodemus
entry |2 pages
Philolaus
entry |2 pages
Philoponus
entry |1 pages
Philostratus
entry |26 pages
Plato
entry |7 pages
Platonism
entry |9 pages
Plotinus
entry |1 pages
Plutarch
entry |2 pages
Plutarch
entry |2 pages
Poets, comic
entry |1 pages
POETS, LYRIC and ELEGIAC.
entry |5 pages
Poets, tragic
entry |1 pages
Polemo
entry |6 pages
Political Thought
entry |1 pages
Polyaenus
entry |1 pages
Polystratus.
entry |2 pages
Porphyry
entry |3 pages
Posidonius
entry |1 pages
Priscian
entry |2 pages
Proclus
entry |1 pages
Prodicus
entry |3 pages
Protagoras
entry |1 pages
(PSEUDO-) DIONYSIUS the Areopagite
entry |1 pages
Psychology
entry |4 pages
Ptolemy
entry |2 pages
Pyrrho
entry |6 pages
Pythagoras
letter |5 pages
R
entry |1 pages
Religion
entry |4 pages
RHETORIC, Greek and Roman
letter |63 pages
S
entry |8 pages
SCIENCE, Greek.
entry |1 pages
Second Sophistic
entry |3 pages
Seneca
entry |1 pages
Seven Sages
entry |2 pages
Sextus Empiricus
entry |2 pages
Simplicius
entry |4 pages
SKEPTICISM, Ancient.
entry |16 pages
Socrates
entry |3 pages
Socratic Circle
entry |8 pages
Sophists
entry |1 pages
Sophocles
entry |1 pages
Sotion
entry |1 pages
Soul
entry |2 pages
Speusippus
entry |1 pages
Sphaerus
entry |1 pages
Stilpo
entry |8 pages
STOA, The
entry |1 pages
Stobaeus
entry |1 pages
Strabo
entry |1 pages
Strato
entry |1 pages
Syrianus
letter |24 pages
T
entry |3 pages
Thales
entry |1 pages
Theaetetus
entry |1 pages
THEAETETUS, Anonymous Commentator on Plato's.
entry |5 pages
THEISM and ATHEISM
entry |1 pages
Themistius
entry |1 pages
Theodorus
entry |1 pages
Theodorus
entry |1 pages
Theodosius
entry |1 pages
Theology
entry |1 pages
Theon
entry |6 pages
Theophrastus
entry |1 pages
Thrasyllus
entry |1 pages
Thrasymachus
entry |1 pages
Thucydides
entry |3 pages
TIME, Ancient Theories of.
entry |1 pages
Timon
letter |4 pages
V
entry |1 pages
Virtue, excellence
entry |3 pages
VOID, Theories of the.
letter |8 pages
X
entry |3 pages
Xenocrates
entry |3 pages
Xenophanes
entry |2 pages
Xenophon
letter |9 pages
Z
entry |4 pages
Zeno
entry |4 pages
Zeno
entry |1 pages
Zeno
entry |1 pages
Zeno
