CLA260H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Henri Estienne, Akademos, August Immanuel Bekker
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In the textbook chapter 12 philosophy" (which is generally a fine introduction) you may wish to pay particular attention to pages 146 to 152, on the schools of ancient philosophy" and the major subjects". To the major resources", it is probably still worth adding w. k. c. guthrie"s. History of greek philosophy (in 6 volumes from 1962 onward; though note that volume 3 the fifth-century enlightenment was also later (in 1971) published in two shorter volumes, on the sophists and socrates). Much shorter, but accessible and still useful, introductions to plato and aristotle were published by oxford university press in their past masters series in the early 1980s, by richard hare and jonathan barnes respectively. Similar in scope, but more recent, are oup"s very short introductions to ancient. Philosophy; plato; (both by julia annas) and aristotle (barnes again). Note these writers" use of another new prose genre, the dialogue.
