The Traveler's Guide to Classical Philosophy Book

Note to the Reader 6

Part I The Idea of Hellenism: What the Greeks Created 8

1 The Scheme of Things Entire 9

2 The Idea of Hellenism 14

3 Wine, Sex and the Symposium 21

4 Theatres: Festivals, Entertainments and Meetings 27

5 Temples: Gods, Feasts and Safe Deposits 32

Part II The Ideal of Homer and the Ideas of the Philosophers 36

1 Troy: The Legend and the Book 37

2 Troy: The Book and the Ideals 49

3 Miletus: The Nature of the Universe 59

4 Ionia and Western Greece: Laws, Numbers and Reality 70

5 Athens: Socrates, Plato and Other Worlds 85

6 Aristotle and this World: Nature, Life and Ethics 96

7 Epicurus: The Garden and the Wilderness 109

8 Stoicism: Duty and the Laws of Nature 122

9 Neoplatonism: The Last Protest 133

10 The End of Classical Antiquity 137

Part III Cities and Citizens: A Gazetteer 146

Abdera

Acragas

Alexandria

Aphrodisias

Assos

Athens

Chalcedon

Chios

Clazomenae

Cnidus

Colophon

Croton

Cyrene

Elea

Ephesus

Halicarnassus

Herculaneum

Kos

Lesbos (Mytilene)

Miletus

Oinoanda

Pergamon

Priene

Rhodes

Rome

Samos

Stageira

Troy

Maps 170

Index 174