The Greek Philosophers from Thales to Aristotle (Pocket)
avWilliam Keith Chambers Guthrie
ISBN: 9780061310089 - UTGIVEN: 1960-04W.K.C. Guthrie has written a survey of the great age of Greek philosophy--from Thales to Aristotle--which combines comprehensiveness with brevity. Without pre-supposing a knowledge of Greek or the Classics, he sets out to explain the ideas of Plato and Aristotle in the light of their predecessors ra[...]
The Sophists (Pocket)
avWilliam Keith Chambers Guthrie
ISBN: 9780521096669 - UTGIVEN: 1971-06The third volume of Professor Guthrie?s great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the physical universe to man. Each of these parts [...]
Orpheus and Greek Religion (Häftad)
avWilliam Keith Chambers Guthrie
ISBN: 9780691024998 - UTGIVEN: 199309The tales told of Orpheus are legion. He is said to have been an Argonaut - and to have saved Jason's life. Rivers are reported to have stopped their flow to listen to the sounds of his lyre and his voice. Plato cites his poetry and Herodotus refers to "practices that are called Orphic." Did Orpheus[...]
