Potamo of Alexandria and the Emergence of Eclecticism in Late - Hellenistic Philosoph

Informationen zum Autor Myrto Hatzimichali is Leventis Lecturer on the Impact of Greek Culture in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. Her research interests centre on intellectual and cultural history, including ancient philosophy and specifically on how literary and philosophical texts were transmitted, received and professionally studied in the Hellenistic and early Imperial periods. She has contributed papers to volumes on Hellenistic poetry, the history of encyclopaedism and the philosopher Antiochus of Ascalon. Klappentext Explores key developments in Graeco-Roman philosophy in the first century BC through examining the eclectic system of Potamo of Alexandria. Zusammenfassung This book explores key issues at the forefront of philosophical activity in the late Hellenistic period through examining the work of Potamo of Alexandria! the only self-styled eclectic philosopher from Antiquity. Topics covered include Alexandrian intellectual life! epistemology! physics and ethics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Eclecticism in modern and ancient thought; 2. Eclecticism and Alexandria in the first century BC; 3. Potamo of Alexandria, life and work; 4. The eclectic system of Potamo's Elementary Teaching; 5. Potamo and Aristotle's On the Heavens; 6. Further references to Potamo; 7. Conclusions.

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• Authors: Myrto Hatzimichali, Myrto (University of Exeter) Hatzimichali, Hatzimichali Myrto
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.07.2011
• EAN: 9780521197281
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19728-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Ancient Greece, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE period – Protohistory