Introducing Greek Philosophy

Presents an introduction to ancient Greek philosophy. This book focuses on Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in Athens. It discusses the arrival of Hellenistic schools in Rome, where the main ideas are set out in the Latin poetry of Lucretius and the prose of Cicero. It is suitable for students of classics and philosophy. Instead, after a basic mapping of the territory, it takes the great themes that the Greeks were engaged in from the earliest times, and looks at them individually, their development in argument and counter-argument, from the beginnings of recorded Greek history, through the various upheavals of tyrannies, democracies, oligarchies and kingships, to their introduction into Rome in the first century BC.