Ancient Greek Philosophers

by Editors of Canterbury Classics (Editor), Editors of Canterbury Classics (Editor)

"Philosophy begins in wonder."
                                     — Plato

Have you ever wondered about the development of civilization? What topics were discussed in the days of ancient Greece? This collection of thoughts from Plato, Aristotle, and other masters of philosophy will lead your mind on a journey of enlightened exploration into ethics, morality, law, medicine, and more. With an introduction by a distinguished scholar of classic literature, this beautiful Canterbury Classics bonded-leather volume with gilded edges and specially designed endpapers is sure to be a favorite keepsake edition in your library.

The pieces in this edition were translated by the following contributors:

Genres: Philosophy, Classics, History, Nonfiction, Mythology, Essays, Reference

992 pages, Leather Bound

Published October 2, 2018

Reviews

[Yinzadi]

Table of Contents
Plato
1. The First Alcibiades, translated by Benjamin Jowett
2. Apology, translated by Robert Drew Hicks
3. Crito
4. Symposium
5. Phaedrus
6. Phaedo
Aristotle
1. Poetics
2. Rhetoric
Xenophon
1. Memorabilia
2. Hellenica
Epictetus
1. Enchiridion
Epicurus
1. Letter to Menoeceus
2. Principal Doctrines

[Becka · Rating 5 out of 5]

I will have to read this collection again because there is no way to glean the wisdom, insights and challenge to my intellect the first time. Completely enjoyed reading all these thought provoking writers. We could use more of them today.

[Rissa (rissasreading) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.25 - This was a rather fascinating, insightful, and lengthy collection of various Greek Philosophers works. I didn't find myself overly invested in a good chunk of these works because my enjoyment of them wasn't necessarily there. However, my favorites definitely had to be the collection of Aristotle's works, I'll be checking out more of him for sure, as well as both Crito and Apology by Plato. Aristotle's works have a lot of fascinating information to take with us for writing and forming arguments. Plato's fanfics of Socrates were enjoyable as well and I think Crito was the most fascinating in the sense of today's context when reading it. I wonder if Socrates would've felt the same today....

[Rosemarie Björnsdottir]

I just need to own this book because of how beautiful it is. It has gold edges!!

[Ryan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Low quality replication of the stories. Several glaring grammatical issues including titles and protagonist names. Only reason I gave 2* was because you get a lot with the discounted price.

[Boyd Fannon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pretty good read.

[Steven Blann · Rating 3 out of 5]

Littered with spelling mistakes and missing words and unusual punctuation mistakes, which are all the more frustrating considering even the translations have been with us for hundreds of years.

The selections from Aristotle (Poetics, Rhetoric) are odd but I suppose you can only hope to fit so much in a collection like this.

Epictetus is so far removed from everyone else in this book, by hundreds of years, and well after the birth of Christ, although I understand the general urge to represent Stoicism. It might have been better to use that space for some key fragments of the Presocratics instead.

Xenophon’s Hellenica is a massive drag in this volume but it does provide some good framework for all of the characters that appear in his Memoribilia and in Plato’s dialogues, and it gives the historical context for Socrates’ death.

[Joshua Friesen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Follow in the thoughts of the great thinkers of our past.