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This is the perfect primer for anyone interested in the foundation of Western thought and a unique companion for visitors to Greek and Roman sites. John Gaskin unfolds the thinking about nature, life, death and other worlds that informed the culture and society of the classical world – still visible in today’s cityscapes and archaeological sites – and draws out its relevance and interest for the modern reader. The author associates each philosopher and his ideas with a particular tourist destination, and a gazetteer describes the sites and notes the people and ideas connected with them.
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Part I – The Idea of Hellenism: What the Greeks Created 1. The Scheme of Things Entire · 2. The Idea of Hellenism · 3. Wine, Sex and the Symposium · 4. Theatres: Festivals, Entertainments and Meetings · 5. Temples: Gods, Feasts and Safe Deposits · Part II – The Ideal of Homer and the Ideas of the Philosophers · 1. Troy: The Legend and the Book · 2. Troy: The Book and the Ideals · 3. Miletus: The Nature of the Universe · 4 Ionia and Western Greece: Laws, Numbers and Reality · 5. Athens: Socrates, Plato and Other Worlds · 6. Aristotle and this World: Nature, Life and Ethics · 7. Epicurus: The Garden and the Wilderness · 8. Stoicism: Duty and the Laws of Nature · 9. Neoplatonism: The Last Protest · 10. The End of Classical Antiquity · Part III – Cities and Citizens: A Gazetteer Abdera · Acragas · Alexandria · Aphrodisias · Assos · Athens · Calchedon · Chios · Clazomenae · Cnidus · Colophon · Croton · Cyrene · Elea · Ephesus · Halicarnassus · Herculaneum · Kos · Lesbos (Mytilene) · Miletus · Oinoanda · Pergamon · Priene · Rhodes · Rome · Samos · Stageira · Troy
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Part I – The Idea of Hellenism: What the Greeks Created 1. The Scheme of Things Entire · 2. The Idea of Hellenism · 3. Wine, Sex and the Symposium · 4. Theatres: Festivals, Entertainments and Meetings · 5. Temples: Gods, Feasts and Safe Deposits · Part II – The Ideal of Homer and the Ideas of the Philosophers · 1. Troy: The Legend and the Book · 2. Troy: The Book and the Ideals · 3. Miletus: The Nature of the Universe · 4 Ionia and Western Greece: Laws, Numbers and Reality · 5. Athens: Socrates, Plato and Other Worlds · 6. Aristotle and this World: Nature, Life and Ethics · 7. Epicurus: The Garden and the Wilderness · 8. Stoicism: Duty and the Laws of Nature · 9. Neoplatonism: The Last Protest · 10. The End of Classical Antiquity · Part III – Cities and Citizens: A Gazetteer Abdera · Acragas · Alexandria · Aphrodisias · Assos · Athens · Calchedon · Chios · Clazomenae · Cnidus · Colophon · Croton · Cyrene · Elea · Ephesus · Halicarnassus · Herculaneum · Kos · Lesbos (Mytilene) · Miletus · Oinoanda · Pergamon · Priene · Rhodes · Rome · Samos · Stageira · Troy
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`A neat, idiosyncratic approach and one that is lively but doesn't dumb down...provides some pretty nourishing food for thought'
--Eastern Daily Press
`Any visit to a site that now lies mainly in ruins will be enriched by reading this book... you'll understand some of the ideas about ethics, the good life and the nature of the universe...Anyone at all interested in the roots of philosophy from the ancients should find this book a good primer'
--Real Travel
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--Eastern Daily Press
`Any visit to a site that now lies mainly in ruins will be enriched by reading this book... you'll understand some of the ideas about ethics, the good life and the nature of the universe...Anyone at all interested in the roots of philosophy from the ancients should find this book a good primer'
--Real Travel
John Gaskin, formerly professor of Naturalistic Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, frequently lectures on cruises to the classical sites of the Aegean.
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