Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Plato on understanding language David Bostock; 3. Cratylus' theory of names and its refutation Bernard Williams; 4. Aristotle on names and their signification David Charles; 5. Epicurus on mind and language Stephen Everson; 6. The Stoic notion of a lekton Michael Frede; 7. Parrots, Pyrrhonists and native speakers David K. Glidden; 8. Analogy, anomaly and Apollonius Dyscolus David Blank; 9. Usage and abusage: Galen on language R. J. Hankinson; 10. Augustine on the nature of speech Christopher Kirwan; 11. The verb 'to be' in Greek philosophy: some remarks Lesley Brown.

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This book is concerned to expound and analyse ancient theories of language.

Reviews

"If ever a case is to be made that ancient philosophy is just an early species of analytic philosophy, this is the volume to do it...The quality of the essays, in every case, is extremely high." Robert Pasnau, Review of Metaphysics