Table of Contents

Preface 1 Anaxagoras 2 Empedocles 3 Socrates 4 Plato 5 The Atomists 6 Aristotle 7 The Stoics Epilogue: A Galenic Perspective Bibliography General Index Index Locorum

About the Author

David Sedley is Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of many books, including Plato's Cratylus (2003) and The Midwife of Platonism: Text and Subtext in Plato's Theaetetus (2004), and is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy.

Reviews

"Sedley's argument is subtle and expert... The brilliance of this book is that Sedley lets the Greeks talk to us and, surprisingly, we can understand what they're saying."--Nature "The scholarly book [Sedley] has written is golden."--London Review of Books "An exemplary study of Greek philosophy, sweeping in vision and exquisite in detail."--Times Literary Supplement (Tls) "An extraordinarily engaging book... Bold."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Bmcr) "[An] authoritative study by the world's leading expert in the field."--Journal of Hellenic Stds