The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Portrait Of Epicurus (341-27O B.C.), based on a commemorative statue of the mid third century B.C. The founder of the Epicurean ...

the proofs for himself'. None the less, the central tenets of the Old Stoics remained firm. In ethics they rejected hedonism and ...

Philosophy was pursued outside the main schools. Pyrrho of Elis (c. 365-c. 270) adopted an extreme scepticism, holding that our ...

Diogenes in his storage jar, as depicted on an engraved gem-stone of the Roman age. The story that the Cynic philosopher (414-32 ...

was some measure of agreement among the schools at the most general level. According to Epicurus, we should 'refer all choice an ...

women, nor by fish and the other items on an expensive menu, but by sober reasoning'. Secondly, Epicurus has an idiosyncratic ac ...

that a Stoic will like horses and hunting, that he will go to parties, that he will fall in love with beautiful young men; and ' ...

to Epicurus, 'since they are aggregates of fire, we should not suppose them to possess happiness and pursue their courses volunt ...

happening and more than one account of their nature which harmonizes with perception'. Epicurus' scepticism is amateur, and the ...

The Stoics thought little of that device to save free will: 'they do not allow Epicurus to swerve his atoms a jot, for he thereb ...

theory of inference, by which we may attain knowledge of what is unclear. The Stoic theory of inference - Stoic logic in the nar ...

spoke not of proof and signs but of 'confirmation' and 'disconfirmation': 'if judgements are not confirmed or are disconfirmed, ...

a square tower when seen from a distance may be judged round. The "replicas which leave the tower have sharp edges, but 'as they ...

Even if scepticism does not subvert life, surely it will subvert science? The Hellenistic period was the golden age of Greek sci ...

Problems In Solid Geometry, on a fragment of a late-Hellenistic papyrus. Found in the Fayum in Egypt, this document reflects the ...

the world in motion'. But there is little evidence of any interdisciplinary influence or understanding. Problems of perception e ...

Mechanical Gadgets described by Hero of Alexandria (first century A.D.) in his Pneumatica and Auto- ...

matapoeica. (Left) Steam from a cauldron of boiling water is forced into a hollow sphere from which its only escape is via two s ...

The face of philosophy changed, but the Hellenistic age had left its mark. The systems of the Porch and the Garden never lacked ...

Early Rome And Italy (By Michael Crawford) Map 7. Italy ...