OGrady - Meet the philosophers of ancient Greece : everything you always wanted to know about ancient Greek philosophy but didnt know who to ask

MEET THE PHILOSOPHERS OF ANCIENT GREECE

Dedicated to the memory of Panagiotis,
a humble man, who found pleasure when reading
about the philosophers of Ancient Greece

Everything you always wanted to know about Ancient Greek philosophy but didnt know who to ask

Edited by

PATRICIA F. OGRADY
Flinders University of South Australia

ASHGATE

Patricia F. OGrady 2005

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Meet the philosophers of ancient Greece: everything you always wanted to know about

ancient Greek philosophy but didnt know who to ask
1. Philosophy, Ancient 2. Philosophers Greece 3. Greece Intellectual life
To 146 B.C.
I. OGrady, Patricia F.
180

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Meet the philosophers of ancient Greece: everything you always wanted to know about ancient Greek philosophy but didnt know who to ask / Patricia F. OGrady, editor.

p.cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-7546-5131-2 (hardcover: alk. paper) ISBN 0-7546-5132-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Philosophy, Ancient. I. OGrady, Patricia F.

B171.M44 2005
18Ddc22

2004021055

ISBN 0 7546 5131 2 (hb)
ISBN 0 7546 5132 0 (ppk)
ISBN 978 1 4094 2320 1 (ebk)
ISBN 9781409486541 (ebk-ePUB)

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Alan Chalmers

Trevor Curnow

Ian Hunt

Seamus Sweeney

Aude Engel

Leo Groarke

Patricia F. OGrady

Dirk L. Couprie and Heleen J. Pott

Christina A. Clark

Thomas Kiefer

Hye-Kyung Kim

Seamus Sweeney

Patricia F. OGrady

G.S. Bowe

Allan F. Randall

James M. Magrini

Jonathan Lavery

Jonathan Lavery

Doukas Kapantas

James M. Magrini

Seamus Sweeney

Christine Farmer

Melanie B. Mineo

Andrew Gregory

Hope May

Matthew Usher

Alan Chalmers

Robert Phiddian

Gerasimos Santas

Steven R. Robinson

Louis Groarke

Marjolein Oele

Andrew Gregory

Hope May

Irene Svitzou

Leo Groarke

Dirk Baltzly

Maria Protopapas-Mameli

Suzanne Roux

Andrew Gregory

G.S. Bowe

Tim OKeefe

Kartika Panwar

Gabriele Cornelli

Keith Seddon

Bruce J. MacLennan

William O. Stephens

David J. Yount

Sabatino DiBernardo

Bruce J. MacLennan

Louis Groarke

Linos G. Benakis

Virginia Haddad

Dirk Baltzly

Antonia Kakavelaki

George Arabatzis

Evanthia Speliotis

Kevin Glowacki

G.S. Bowe

Deborah Nash Peterson

Peter Sommer

Anne Farrell

Glenn Rawson

Trevor Curnow

Patricia F. OGrady

Glenn Rawson

Daniel Silvermintz

Tim OKeefe and Patricia F. OGrady

Phillip Meade

Patricia F. OGrady

Glenn Rawson

Andrew Gregory

Dr George Arabatzis
Research Centre for Greek
Philosophy
of the Academy of Athens,
Anagnostopoulou 14
106 73 Athens-Greece
arabatzi@academyofathens.gr

Dr Dirk Baltzly
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia

Professor Linos G. Benakis,
PhD, PhD hc.
Research Fellow of the Academy of
Athens
Former Director of the Research
Centre of Greek Philosophy
Sina Str. 58, GR 106 72 Athens
benakis@hol.gr

Dr G.S. Bowe
Program in Cultures Civilizations
and Ideas
And Department of Philosophy
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
geoff. bowe@gmail.com

Alan Chalmers
Senior Research Fellow
Flinders University of
South Australia

Christina Clark, PhD
Assistant Professor
Classical and Near Eastern Studies
Creighton University
caclark@creighton.edu

Gabriele Cornelli, PhD
Ancient Philosophy Professor
Methodist University of
So Paulo, Brazil
gabrielec@uol.com.br

Dr Dirk L. Couprie
Independent Researcher
Maastricht, the Netherlands
dirkcouprie@dirkcouprie.nl

Dr Trevor Curnow
Senior Lecturer
Division of Religion and Philosophy
St Martins College, Lancaster
England.
t.curnow@ucsm.ac.uk

Sabatino DiBernardo, PhD
Instructor of Religion, Philosophy
and Humanities
University of Central Florida
Brevard
sdiberna@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
phone: (321) 632-111 ext. 65508

Aude Engel, PhD
University of Toulouse
Le Mirail, France

Dr Christine Farmer
Freelance lecturer and writer
Birmingham, UK
clfarmer@btinternet.com

Anne Farrell, PhD
Visiting Instructor
Georgia State University
afarrell@gsu.edu

Kevin T. Glowacki, PhD
Assistant Professor of Classical
Studies
Indiana University-Bloomington,
USA
kglowack@indiana.edu

Dr Andrew Gregory
Senior Lecturer in History of
Science
University College London
andrew.gregory@ucl.ac.uk

Leo Groarke
Dean of the Brantford Campus
Wilfrid Laurier University
lgroarke@wlu.ca

Dr Louis Groarke
Philosophy Department
York University
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
Canada B2G 2W5
lgroarke@yahoo.com

Virginia Haddad, MA
Adjunct Professor of Humanities
Imperial Valley College, California
VirginiaHaddad@mac.com

Dr Ian Hunt
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Head, Dept of Philosophy
School of Humanities,
Director, Centre for Applied
Philosophy,
Flinders University of South
Australia.
Ian.Hunt@flinders.edu.au

Antonia Kakavelaki
PhD student
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes,
Paris
pahomios@hotmail.com

Dr Doukas Kapantas
Research Centre for Greek
Philosophy
At the Academy of Athens
Anagnostopoulou 14
106 73 Athens-Greece
keef@academyofathens.gr

Thomas Kiefer
University of Nebraska
tkiefer@msn.com

Hye- K yung Kim, PhD
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Green Bay, Wisconsin 54311 USA
Kirnh@uwgb.edu

Dr Jonathan Lavery
Wilfrid Laurier University-Brantford
73 George St
Brantford, ON
N3T 2Y3 Canada
jlavery@wlu.ca