{"product_id":"ancient-science-through-the-golden-age-of-greece","title":"Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMarc Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOriginally published: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 615) and index.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPART ONE ORIENTAL AND GREEK ORIGINS \n\u003cbr\u003eI THE DAWN OF SCIENCE \n\u003cbr\u003e EARLY TECHNICAL PROBLEMS \n\u003cbr\u003e PREHISTORIC TRAVEL AND TRADE \n\u003cbr\u003e PREHISTORIC MEDICINE \n\u003cbr\u003e PREHISTORIC MATHEMATICS \n\u003cbr\u003e PREHISTORIC ASTRONOMY \n\u003cbr\u003e PURE SCIENCES \n\u003cbr\u003e DIFFUSION AND CONVERGENCE \n\u003cbr\u003eII EGYPT \n\u003cbr\u003e THE INVENTION OF WRITING \n\u003cbr\u003e THE INVENTION OF PAPYRUS \n\u003cbr\u003e ASTRONOMY \n\u003cbr\u003e ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING \n\u003cbr\u003e MATHEMATICS \n\u003cbr\u003e TECHNOLOGY \n\u003cbr\u003e METALLURGY AND MINING \n\u003cbr\u003e \"EGYPTIAN \"SCIENCE\" \n\u003cbr\u003e ART AND LITERATURE \n\u003cbr\u003e THE DAWN OF CONSCIENCE \n\u003cbr\u003eIII MESOPOTAMIA \n\u003cbr\u003e GEOGRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND \n\u003cbr\u003e INVENTION OF WRITING \n\u003cbr\u003e ARCHIVES AND SCHOOLS \n\u003cbr\u003e THE BIRTH OF PHILOLOGY \n\u003cbr\u003e BABYLONIAN SCIENCE \n\u003cbr\u003e MATHEMATICS \n\u003cbr\u003e ASTRONOMY \n\u003cbr\u003e TECHNOLOGY \n\u003cbr\u003e GEOGRAPHY \n\u003cbr\u003e NATURAL HISTORY \n\u003cbr\u003e THE CODE OF HAMMURABI \n\u003cbr\u003e MEDICINE \n\u003cbr\u003e HUMANITIES \n\u003cbr\u003eIV DARK INTERLUDE \n\u003cbr\u003e THE AEGEAN AREA \n\u003cbr\u003e THE AEGEAN CULTURE \n\u003cbr\u003e THE EARLY GREEK AND PHOENICIAN COLONIES. INVENTION OF THE ALPHABET \n\u003cbr\u003e THE CONTINUITY OF ORIENTAL INFLUENCES \n\u003cbr\u003e MATHEMATICAL TRADITIONS: \n\u003cbr\u003e Egyptian arithmetic \n\u003cbr\u003e Minoan arithmetic \n\u003cbr\u003e Egyptian geometry \n\u003cbr\u003e Babylonian mathematics \n\u003cbr\u003e ASTRONOMIC TRADITIONS \n\u003cbr\u003e BIOLOGIC AND MEDICAL TRADITIONS \n\u003cbr\u003e TECHNICAL TRADITIONS \n\u003cbr\u003e MYTHOLOGY \n\u003cbr\u003e THE DARKEST HOUR BEFORE THE DAWN \n\u003cbr\u003eV THE DAWN OF GREEK CULTURE. HOMER AND HESIOD \n\u003cbr\u003e THE GREEK MIRACLE \n\u003cbr\u003e THE Iliad \n\u003cbr\u003e MINSTRELS AND RHAPSODISTS \n\u003cbr\u003e HOMER? \n\u003cbr\u003e MORE ABOUT THE Iliad \n\u003cbr\u003e THE Odyssey. HOMER II \n\u003cbr\u003e EARLY HOMERIC TRADITIONS \n\u003cbr\u003e WHAT DID HOMER TEACH? \n\u003cbr\u003e GEOGRAPHY \n\u003cbr\u003e MEDICINE \n\u003cbr\u003e OTHER ARTS AND CRAFTS \n\u003cbr\u003e \"HOMER, THE FIRST EDUCATOR OF THE WESTERN WORLD\" \n\u003cbr\u003e FÉNELON \n\u003cbr\u003e LEGENDS \n\u003cbr\u003e WOLF AND SCHLIEMANN \n\u003cbr\u003e HESIOD \n\u003cbr\u003e Works and days \n\u003cbr\u003e Descent of the gods \n\u003cbr\u003e HESIOD II \n\u003cbr\u003e HESIODIC STYLE AND TRADITION \n\u003cbr\u003e BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES: \n\u003cbr\u003e Homer \n\u003cbr\u003e Hesiod \n\u003cbr\u003eVI ASSYRIAN INTERMEZZO \n\u003cbr\u003eVII IONIAN SCIENCE IN THE SIXTH CENTURY \n\u003cbr\u003e THE ASIATIC CRADLE OF GREEK SCIENCE \n\u003cbr\u003e \"ASIA, THE HOME OF PROPHETS\" \n\u003cbr\u003e MILETOS \n\u003cbr\u003e THE SEVEN WISE MEN \n\u003cbr\u003e THALES OF MILETOS \n\u003cbr\u003e ANAXIMANDROS OF MILETOS \n\u003cbr\u003e ANAXIMENES OF MILETOS \n\u003cbr\u003e CLEOSTRATOS OF TENEDOS \n\u003cbr\u003e XENOPHANES OF COLOPHON \n\u003cbr\u003e EGYPTIAN INTERLUDE \n\u003cbr\u003e \"NECHO, KING OF EGYPT \" \n\u003cbr\u003e \"HECATAIOS OF MILETOS, THE FATHER OF GEOGRAPHY\" \n\u003cbr\u003e GREEK TECHNICIANS OF THE SIXTH CENTURY \n\u003cbr\u003e CADMOS OF MILETOS \n\u003cbr\u003e THE RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND AND THE SUPERSTITIOUS UNDERGROUND \n\u003cbr\u003e BIBLIOGRAPHY \n\u003cbr\u003eVIII PYTHAGORAS \n\u003cbr\u003e WHO WAS PYTHAGORAS? \n\u003cbr\u003e THE PYTHAGOREAN BROTHERHOOD AND THE EARLY PYTHAGOREAN DOCTRINES \n\u003cbr\u003e ARITHMETIC \n\u003cbr\u003e GEOMETRY \n\u003cbr\u003e ASTRONOMY \n\u003cbr\u003e MUSIC AND ARITHMETIC \n\u003cbr\u003e MEDICINE \n\u003cbr\u003e ALCMAION AND DEMOCEDES \n\u003cbr\u003e NUMBERS AND WISDOM \n\u003cbr\u003e THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE IS THE GREATEST PURIFICATION \n\u003cbr\u003ePART TWO THE FIFTH CENTURY \n\u003cbr\u003eIX GREECE AGAINST PERSIA. THE GLORY OF ATHENS \n\u003cbr\u003e THE PERSIAN WARS \n\u003cbr\u003e FIFTY YEARS OF RELATIVE PEACE \n\u003cbr\u003e LYRIC POETRY \n\u003cbr\u003e THE ARTS \n\u003cbr\u003e TRAGEDY \n\u003cbr\u003e COMEDY \n\u003cbr\u003e THE FIFTH CENTURY ITSELF A TRAGEDY \n\u003cbr\u003e THE DANGER OF COMPARING THE PAST WITH THE PRESENT \n\u003cbr\u003eX PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE TO THE DEATH OF SOCRATES \n\u003cbr\u003e HERACLEITOS OF EPHESOS \n\u003cbr\u003e ANAXAGORAS OF CLAZOMENAE \n\u003cbr\u003e THE ELEACTIC SCHOOL. PARMENIDES AND ZENON OF ELEA \n\u003cbr\u003e MELISSOS OF SAMOS \n\u003cbr\u003e EMPEDOCLES OF AGRIGENTUM \n\u003cbr\u003e THE ATOMISTS \n\u003cbr\u003e LEUCIPPOS AND DEMOCRITOS \n\u003cbr\u003e THE SOPHISTS \n\u003cbr\u003e \"PROTAGORAS OF ABDERA, GORGIAS OF LEONTINI, AND ANTIPHON OF RHAMNOS\" \n\u003cbr\u003e Protagoras of Abdera \n\u003cbr\u003e Gorgias of Leontini \n\u003cbr\u003e Antiphon of Rhamnos \n\u003cbr\u003e SOCRATES OF ATHENS \n\u003cbr\u003e THE BOOK OF JOB \n\u003cbr\u003eXI \"MATHEMATICS, ASTRONOMY, AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE FIFTH CENTURY\" \n\u003cbr\u003e MATHEMATICS \n\u003cbr\u003e ZENON OF ELEA \n\u003cbr\u003e DEMOCRITOS OF ABDERA \n\u003cbr\u003e HIPPOCRATES OF CHIOS \n\u003cbr\u003e OINOPIDES OF CHIOS \n\u003cbr\u003e HIPPIAS OF ELIS \n\u003cbr\u003e THE ODOROS OF CYRENE \n\u003cbr\u003e ANTIPHON THE SOPHIST \n\u003cbr\u003e BRYSON OF HERACLEA \n\u003cbr\u003e ASTRONOMY \n\u003cbr\u003e PARMENIDES OF ELEA \n\u003cbr\u003e PHILOLAOS OF CROTON \n\u003cbr\u003e HICETAS OF SYRACUSE \n\u003cbr\u003e ECPHANTOS OF SYRACUSE \n\u003cbr\u003e THE ASTRONOMIC VIEWS OF LEUCIPPOS AND DEMOCRITOS \n\u003cbr\u003e OINOPIDES OF CHIOS \n\u003cbr\u003e METON AND EUCTEMON \n\u003cbr\u003e TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING \n\u003cbr\u003e ARTACHAIES THE PERSIAN \n\u003cbr\u003e AGATHARCHOS OF SAMOS \n\u003cbr\u003e HIPPODAMOS OF MILETOS \n\u003cbr\u003e THE SILVER MINES OF LAURION \n\u003cbr\u003eXII GEOGRAPHERS AND HISTORIANS OF THE FIFTH CENTURY \n\u003cbr\u003e GEOGRAPHY \n\u003cbr\u003e SCYLAX OF CARYANDA \n\u003cbr\u003e SATASPES THE ACHAIMENIAN \n\u003cbr\u003e HANON OF CARTHAGE \n\u003cbr\u003e HIMILCON OF CARTHAGE \n\u003cbr\u003e \"THE HISTORIANS: HERODOTOS, THUCYDIDES, AND CTESIAS\" \n\u003cbr\u003e HERODOTOS OF HALICARNASSOS \n\u003cbr\u003e THUCYDIDES OF ATHENS: The plague of Athens \n\u003cbr\u003e HERODOTOS AND THUCYDIDES \n\u003cbr\u003e CTESIAS OF CNIDOS \n\u003cbr\u003eXIII \"GREEK MEDICINE OF THE FIFTH CENTURY, CHIEFLY HIPPOCRATIC\" \n\u003cbr\u003e FROM HOMER TO HIPPOCRATES \n\u003cbr\u003e THE SCHOOL OF CNIDOS \n\u003cbr\u003e THE SCHOOL OF COS \n\u003cbr\u003e HIPPOCRATES OF COS \n\u003cbr\u003e HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE: \n\u003cbr\u003e 1. Anatomy and physiology \n\u003cbr\u003e 2. Prognosis versus diagnosis \n\u003cbr\u003e 3. What diseases did the Hippocratic physicians know? \n\u003cbr\u003e 4. Hygiene and therapeutics \n\u003cbr\u003e 5. Medical climatology \n\u003cbr\u003e 6. Scientific aspects of Hippocratism \n\u003cbr\u003e 7. Psychologic healing \n\u003cbr\u003e THE HIPPOCRATIC ACHIEVEMENTS \n\u003cbr\u003e THE ASCLEPIADAI \n\u003cbr\u003eXIV THE HIPPOCRATIC CORPUS \n\u003cbr\u003e COMPLETE OR PARTIAL GENUINENESS OF THE HIPPOCRATIC WRITINGS \n\u003cbr\u003e EARLY COMMENTARIES: Printed editions \n\u003cbr\u003e MAIN MEDICAL WRITINGS \n\u003cbr\u003e 1. \"The sacred disease, De morbo sacro, Peri hieres nosu\" \n\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"Prognostic, Prognostica sive praenotiones, Prognosticon\" \n\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"Regimen in acute diseases, De di \n\u003cbr\u003e 29. \"Percepts, Praecepta, Parangeliai\" \n\u003cbr\u003e LETTERS \n\u003cbr\u003e 30. APOCHRYPHAL LETTERS \n\u003cbr\u003e \"THE MEDIEVAL TRADITION OF HIPPOCRATES: Second half of the twelfth century, First half of the thirteenth century, Second half of the thirteenth century, First half of the fourteenth century, Second half of the fourteenth century\" \n\u003cbr\u003eXV COAN ARCHAEOLOGY \n\u003cbr\u003ePART THREE THE FOURTH CENTURY \n\u003cbr\u003eXVI PLATO AND THE ACADEMY \n\u003cbr\u003e POLITICAL BACKGROUND \n\u003cbr\u003e SCOPAS AND PRAXITELES \n\u003cbr\u003e PLATO'S LIFE \n\u003cbr\u003e THE ACADEMY (387 B.C. TO A.D. 529) \n\u003cbr\u003e LATER HISTORY OF THE ACADEMY (348 B.C. TO A.D. 529) \n\u003cbr\u003e ORIENTAL INFLUENCES \n\u003cbr\u003e THE THEORY OF IDEAS \n\u003cbr\u003e PLATOS WRITINGS \n\u003cbr\u003e BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY \n\u003cbr\u003e PLATO'S WORKS AND THEIR CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER \n\u003cbr\u003e POLITICS \n\u003cbr\u003e THE GREAT BETRAYAL \n\u003cbr\u003e PLATO'S POLITICAL PROBLEM \n\u003cbr\u003e LEADERSHIP \n\u003cbr\u003e POLITICS AND MATHEMATICS \n\u003cbr\u003e NEITHER FREEDOM NOR TRUTH IN THE REPUBLIC \n\u003cbr\u003e PLATO'S RELIGION \n\u003cbr\u003e PLATO'S LACK OF HUMANITY \n\u003cbr\u003e THE Timaios \n\u003cbr\u003e PLATONIC LOVE \n\u003cbr\u003e CONCLUSION \n\u003cbr\u003e A NOTE ON THE ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL TRADITION OF THE Timaios \n\u003cbr\u003eXVII MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY IN PLATO'S TIME \n\u003cbr\u003e MATHEMATICS \n\u003cbr\u003e THEAITETOS \n\u003cbr\u003e LEODAMOS \n\u003cbr\u003e \"NEOCLEIDES, AND LEON\" \n\u003cbr\u003e ARCHYTAS OF TARENTUM \n\u003cbr\u003e EUDOXUS OF CNIDOS \n\u003cbr\u003e ASTRONOMY \n\u003cbr\u003e KIDINNU \n\u003cbr\u003e \"THE PRECURSORS OF SCIENTIFIC ASTRONOMY: PHILOLAOS, HICETAS, AND ECPHANTOS\" \n\u003cbr\u003e \"THE FOUNDER OF SCIENTIFIC ASTRONOMY, EUDOXOS OF CNIDOS, AND HIS THEORY OF HOMOCENTRIC SPHERES\" \n\u003cbr\u003e THE ASTRONOMIC FANCIES OF PLATO AND PHILIP OF OPUS. THE INTRODUCTION OF SIDEREAL RELIGION INTO THE WESTERN WORLD \n\u003cbr\u003e THE Epinomis \n\u003cbr\u003eXVIII XENOPHON \n\u003cbr\u003e XENOPHON'S WRITINGS \n\u003cbr\u003e PLATO AND XENOPHON \n\u003cbr\u003e XENOPHON AS EDUCATOR \n\u003cbr\u003e FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURE \n\u003cbr\u003e XENOPHON'S VIEWS ON DIVINATION \n\u003cbr\u003e XENOPHON'S HUMOR \n\u003cbr\u003e XENOPHON'S INFLUENCE \n\u003cbr\u003eXIX ARISTOTLE AND ALEXANDER THE LYCEUM \n\u003cbr\u003e THE GROWTH OF MACEDONIAN POWER \n\u003cbr\u003e THE LIFE OF ARISTOTLE \n\u003cbr\u003e \"THE LOST ARISTOTLE. HIS EARLY, PLATONIC WRITINGS\" \n\u003cbr\u003e THE LIVING ARISTOTLE. HIS PERMANENT WRITINGS \n\u003cbr\u003e \"EDITIONS, TRANSLATIONS, INDEXES\" \n\u003cbr\u003e ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE MACEDONIAN EMPIRE \n\u003cbr\u003e THE LYCEUM \n\u003cbr\u003e ITS FOUNDATION AND EARLY HISTORY \n\u003cbr\u003e EARLY COMMENTATORS \n\u003cbr\u003e SOME ASPECTS OF ARISTOTLE'S PHILOSOPHY \n\u003cbr\u003e THE ORGANON \n\u003cbr\u003eXX \"MATHEMATICS, ASTRONOMY, AND PHYSICS IN ARISTOTLES TIME\" \n\u003cbr\u003e MATHEMATICS \n\u003cbr\u003e ARISTOTLE THE MATHEMATICIAN \n\u003cbr\u003e SPEUSIPPOS OF ATHENS \n\u003cbr\u003e XENOCRATES OF CHALCEDON \n\u003cbr\u003e MENAICHMOS \n\u003cbr\u003e DEINOSTRATOS \n\u003cbr\u003e THEUDIOS OF MAGNESIA \n\u003cbr\u003e EUDEMOS OF RHODES \n\u003cbr\u003e ARISTAIOS THE ELDER \n\u003cbr\u003e MATHEMATICS IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE FOURTH CENTURY \n\u003cbr\u003e ASTRONOMY \n\u003cbr\u003e HERACLEIDES OF PONTOS \n\u003cbr\u003e CALLIPOS OF CYZICOS \n\u003cbr\u003e ARISTOTLE THE ASTRONOMER \n\u003cbr\u003e AUTOLYCOS OF PITANE \n\u003cbr\u003e ASTRONOMY IN ARISTOTLE'S TIME \n\u003cbr\u003e PHYSICS \n\u003cbr\u003e PHYSICS IN THE EARLY LYCEUM \n\u003cbr\u003e GREEK MUSIC. ARISTOXENOS OF TARENTUM \n\u003cbr\u003eXXI THE NATURAL SCIENCES AND MEDICINE IN ARISTOTLE'S TIME \n\u003cbr\u003e GEOGRAPHY \n\u003cbr\u003e ARISTOTLE THE GEOGRAPHER \n\u003cbr\u003e PYTHEAS OF MASSILIA \n\u003cbr\u003e NEARCHOS THE CRETAN \n\u003cbr\u003e DICAIARCHOS OF MESSINA \n\u003cbr\u003e ZOÖLOGY AND BIOLOGY \n\u003cbr\u003e \"ARISTOTLE, THE ZOÖLOGIST, THE BIOLOGIST: Comparative anatomy and physiology, Habits of animals, Embryology\" \n\u003cbr\u003e BOTANY \n\u003cbr\u003e THE RHIZOTOMISTS \n\u003cbr\u003e ARISTOTLE THE BOTANIST \n\u003cbr\u003e THEOPHRASTOS OF ERESOS \n\u003cbr\u003e THE FATHER OF BOTANY \n\u003cbr\u003e GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY \n\u003cbr\u003e EARLY KNOWLEDGE \n\u003cbr\u003e THEOPHRASTOS THE MINERALOGIST \n\u003cbr\u003e MEDICINE \n\u003cbr\u003e ARISTOTLE THE PHYSICIAN \n\u003cbr\u003e THE DOGMATIC SCHOOL. DIOCLES OF CARYSTOS \n\u003cbr\u003e MENON \n\u003cbr\u003eXXII ARISTOTELIAN HUMANITIES AND HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE FOURTH CENTURY B.C. \n\u003cbr\u003e ECOLOGY \n\u003cbr\u003e ETHICS \n\u003cbr\u003e POLITICS \n\u003cbr\u003e \"HISTORIOGRAPHY: Ephoros of Cyme, Theopompos of Chios\" \n\u003cbr\u003e HISTORIANS OF SCIENCE: \n\u003cbr\u003e Rhetoric \n\u003cbr\u003e Poetics \n\u003cbr\u003e CONCLUSION \n\u003cbr\u003eXXIII OTHER THEORIES OF LIFE AND OF KNOWLEDGE. THE GARDEN AND THE PORCH \n\u003cbr\u003e THE CYNICS \n\u003cbr\u003e THE SKEPTICS \n\u003cbr\u003e EUHEMERISM \n\u003cbr\u003e THE GARDEN OF EPICUROS \n\u003cbr\u003e EPICUROS OF SAMOS \n\u003cbr\u003e EPICUREAN PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY \n\u003cbr\u003e EPICUROS' STRUGGLE AGAINST CLERICALSM AND SUPERSTITION \n\u003cbr\u003e THE SCHOOL \n\u003cbr\u003e EPICROS' CHARACTER \n\u003cbr\u003e HIS DEATH \n\u003cbr\u003e THE STOA \n\u003cbr\u003e ZENON OF CITION \n\u003cbr\u003e STOIC SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY \n\u003cbr\u003e BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL \n\u003cbr\u003eEPILOGUE \n\u003cbr\u003eXXIV THE END OF A CYCLE \n\u003cbr\u003e GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY \n\u003cbr\u003e INDEX\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"There are few scholars or scientists today who write as beautifully or as interestingly as [Sarton] . . . [his] book is magnificent.\" -- Ashley Montagu, S \n\u003ci\u003eaturday Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAlthough science did not begin in ancient Greece (millennia of work in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and other regions preceded Greek efforts) it is nevertheless true that methodic, rational investigation of the natural universe originated largely with early Hellenic thinkers. Thus, the major part of this book is of necessity devoted to Greece. Drawing wherever possible on original sources, Dr. Sarton, one of the world's foremost historians of science, paints a vivid and illuminating picture of mathematics, astronomy, physics, biology, medicine, and other sciences as they emerged from the mists of prehistory and ultimately flourished within the context of Greek society. The book is divided into three parts. Part One begins with the earliest evidence of prehistoric mathematics, astronomy, and other science. Dr. Sarton then describes the achievements of Egypt and Mesopotamia, the dawn of Greek culture and the remarkable flowering of Ionian science in the sixth century B.C. Thales of Miletos, Anaximandrox, and Xenophanes are among the important figures discussed. An entire chapter focuses on the influential doctrines of Pythagoras.Part Two opens with the glory of Athens in the fifth century B.C. and its magnificent achievements in poetry and the arts, philosophy, and science. Described in lucid detail are groundbreaking contributions of Heracleitos, Anaxagoras, Protagoras, Zenon of Elea, Parmenides, Democritos, and many others. Also included in this section are perceptive discussions of geographers and historians of the fifth century (Herodotos, Thucydides, and others) and Greek medicine of the fifth century (chiefly Hippocratic). \n\u003cbr\u003ePart Three focuses on the extraordinary Greek thinkers of the fourth century B.C.: Plato and the Academy, Aristotle, Xenophon and many others, including such important schools of thought as the cynics, stoics, skeptics, and epicureans. 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