History of Greek Philosophyis an immense work in two volumes about ancientGreek philosophy. It (Philosophie der Griechen) was written in German byDr. E. Zellera professor at the University of Berlin, this is the English translation published in England in 1881. The work is one of the most ...
The present overview traces the course of the intellectual revolution initiated by some Presocratic philosophers in the sixth century B.C.E. and led to its zenith by Galen in the second century A.D. We shall examine and discuss some leading theories and relevant doctrines in a chronological fas...
Aelian relates that Cercidas died expressing his hope of being with Pythagorus of the Philosophers, Hecataeus of the historians, Olympus of the musicians, and Homer of the poets, which clearly implies that he himself cultivated these four sciences. He appears to be the same person as Cercid...
The union of Venus and Mars held greater appeal for poets and philosophers, and the couple were a frequent subject of art. In Greek myth, the adultery of Ares and Aphrodite had been exposed to ridicule when her husband Hephaestus (whose Roman equivalent was Vulcan) caught them in the a...
The modes of ancient Greek music are of interest to us, not only as the forms under which the Fine Art of Music was developed by a people of extraordinary artistic capability, but also on account of the peculiar ethical influence ascribed to them by the greatest ancient philosophers. It appe...
The abstract principles of the early Greek philosophers made knowledge of reality impossible. Knowledge of the changeable world of phenomena merely provided opinion. The Sophists, who examined precisely the phenomena of the world of the senses, were forced to conclude that man’s conceptions about ...
Psellus does not undervalue the old philosophers, and is himself of a philosophic temperament. He was the first of his intellectual circle to raise the philosophy of Plato above that of Aristotle and to teach philosophy as a professor. Surpassing Photius in intellect and wit, he lacks that sch...
The growing individualism of the fifth century, aided by the rationalism of the philosophers and the Sophists, the questioning of traditional values in the various crises of the Peloponnesian War, the gradual evolution of moral speculation over the previous century which included an increasing shift ...
Thucydides was himself an intellectual of the Athenian kind; markedly individualistic, his style shows a man brought up in the company of Sophocles and Euripides, the playwrights, and the philosophers Anaxagoras, Socrates, and the contemporary Sophists. His writing is condensed and direct, almost aus...
His Onomatologos ē pinax tōn en paideia onomastōn (“Nomenclature, or Index of Famous Persons in Learning”) is significant for its biographical notices of notable Greek writers. In it the authors were classified as poets, philosophers, historians, orators-grammarians, medical men, and ...