The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy

This series will be familiar to readers, above all if they teach or provide resources for philosophy in a university setting. The Philosophy Guides already include works on epistemology, ethical theory, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mind (those most associated with the work under review). The Guide to Ancient Philosophy itself is a fresh and well‐organized examination of key philosophers and schools, ideas and issues, within the chronological frame of the sixth century BC to the sixth century AD (Western style), and it looks at presocratic philosophy and the Sophists, travels through Socrates and Plato and Aristotle, moves on to...