The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Symposion, on an Athenian cup by the Brygos Painter of about 490-480 B.C. Reclining at a feast-an eastern habit-was adopted by G ...

inspect the ceiling, admire the hangings in the hall. Needless to say, the old man ends up behaving disgracefully, stealing one ...

A Reading Lesson. On the interior of an Athenian cup of about 430-420 B.C. The boy stands reading a folding wooden tablet, the l ...

citizen and non-citizen. The main point of Aristophanes' Clouds is, however, a different conflict, that between lower and higher ...

An East Greek Gravestone For A Doctor, about 500 B.C. Two metal 'cups' hang in the background. Heated and applied to the flesh, ...

Society is composed of interrelating phenomena, and there is a fascination in seeing how they fit together; perhaps that aim is ...

Classical Greek Philosophy (By Julia Annas) Background: Philosophy in the Fifth Century When Plato began to write, philosophy ...

effects of the arguments propounded by the Eleatic thinkers Parmenides and Melissus. They proved, by an argument that nobody cou ...

politics; thus they tended to pride themselves on skill in arguing, without being clear what in this was due to rhetorical trick ...

associated with many of the aristocrats who had overthrown the democracy, but the dislike was in part genuinely anti-philosophic ...

The dialogues that have these characteristics, and are traditionally accepted as early, are: Apology (a monologue), Crito, Euthy ...

A search for the factor, whatever it is, that distinguishes knowing from other states, has preoccupied many philosophers, and pr ...

is fully displayed. Now knowledge is acquired only after years of preliminary training in mathematical disciplines (inculcating ...

It is often said that Plato has a 'Theory' of Forms and even that it dominates his entire work. In fact Forms appear rarely and ...

discussion differ so widely in point and result, it is never made clear what the basic motivation for Forms is, nor what the ran ...

reality. In the Cratylus (which shares many characteristics with the late dialogues) he discusses current theories of language a ...

that was set free by Alexander's death, and he died in Euboea the following year. We know as little about him personally as we d ...

For in all natural things there is something wonderful. (De partibus animalium 1.5, Balme translation) Bronze Warrior, found in ...

Iron Corselet with gold attachments from the tomb of Philip II of Macedon (died 336 B.C.) at Vergina (ancient Aegae). Aristotle' ...

lions reveal the nature of the species better in their natural habitat than in laboratories or zoos. Aristotle is a collector of ...