Issues in Ancient Philosophy
About the Book Series
Routledge's Issues in Ancient Philosophy exists to bring fresh light to the central themes of ancient philosophy through original studies which focus especially on texts and authors which lie outside the central ‘canon’. Contributions to the series are characterised by rigorous scholarship presented in an accessible manner; they are designed to be essential and invigorating reading for all advanced students in the field of ancient philosophy.
Speusippus: A Forgotten Voice of Platonism
1st Edition
By Giulia De Cesaris
March 25, 2025
This volume, the first devoted specifically to Speusippus in English, offers a new picture of Speusippus’ philosophy via an in-depth analysis of the testimonia preserved by Aristotle. The book develops a new methodology for understanding the evidence concerning authors of the Early Academy, ...
Aristotle on the Continuum in Presocratic Thought
1st Edition
By Giovanna R. Giardina
March 11, 2025
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the origin and development of the concept of physical continuity in ancient thought before Aristotle, combining a thorough study of Presocratic philosophy with Aristotle’s perspective. The concept of continuity plays a fundamental role in ...
The Meteorology of Posidonius
1st Edition
By J.J. Hall
December 18, 2024
This volume describes the meteorology of the Stoic philosopher Posidonius from the existing fragments, and discusses his relation to earlier thinkers on this subject, as well as the methods he used to obtain information about and to find explanations of meteorological phenomena. The book examines ...
Cosmos and Perception in Plato’s Timaeus: In the Eye of the Cognitive Storm
1st Edition
By Mark Eli Kalderon
November 28, 2024
This volume offers a wide-ranging study on perception in the Timaeus, not only discussing senses such as touch, taste, and olfaction alongside audition and vision but also engaging with Timaeus’ wider cosmological project. Most studies of perception in the Timaeus focus on a few narrow passages on...
Gorgias's Thought: An Epistemological Reading
1st Edition
By Erminia Di Iulio
October 28, 2024
Gorgias’s Thought: An Epistemological Reading is the first monograph published in English entirely devoted to Gorgias’s epistemological thought and provides a new perspective on Gorgias’s thought more broadly. The book aims to undermine the common idea that Gorgias is either an orator ...
Investigating the Relationship Between Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics
1st Edition
Edited
By Giulio Di Basilio
October 28, 2024
Specifically focusing on the relationship between the Eudemian and the Nicomachean Ethics, this collection of essays studies major themes from Aristotle’s ethics. This volume builds on a recent revival of interest in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics, which offers an invaluable complement to the ...
Thales the Measurer
1st Edition
By Livio Rossetti
October 28, 2024
Thales the Measurer offers a comprehensive and iconoclastic account of Thales of Miletus, considering the full extent of our evidence to build a new picture of his intellectual interests and activity. Thales is most commonly associated with the claim that ‘everything is water’, but closer ...
The Theology of the Epinomis
1st Edition
By Vera Calchi
October 28, 2024
This is the first monograph devoted to the theology of the Epinomis. It argues that the work offers a revised Platonic conception of the divine better suited to the political-religious imperatives of the post-Classical age. The Epinomis is the ‘appendix’ to Plato’s Laws likely written by Plato’s ...
The Stoic Doctrine of Providence: A Study of its Development and of Some of its Major Issues
1st Edition
By Bernard Collette
January 29, 2024
The Stoic Doctrine of Providence attempts to reconstruct the Stoic doctrine of providence (as argued for in ancient texts now lost) and explain its many fascinating philosophical issues. Examining issues such as the compatibility between good and evil, and how a provident god can serve as model of ...
Ancient Logic, Language, and Metaphysics: Selected Essays by Mario Mignucci
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Falcon, Pierdaniele Giaretta
September 30, 2021
The late Mario Mignucci was one of the most authoritative, original, and influential scholars in the area of ancient philosophy, especially ancient logic. Collected here for the first time are sixteen of his most important essays on Ancient Logic, Language, and Metaphysics. These essays show a ...
Taurus of Beirut: The Other Side of Middle Platonism
1st Edition
By Federico M. Petrucci
August 14, 2020
This volume is the first monograph devoted to the philosophy of Taurus of Beirut, and provides a long-awaited analysis of his texts and their first English translation. Through close examination of the extant witnesses, Petrucci gives a new account of Middle Platonism based on a fresh approach to ...
The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous: Hieroglyphic Semantics in Late Antiquity
1st Edition
By Mark Wildish
August 14, 2020
The main aim of this book is to reconstruct a philosophical context for the Hieroglyphica of Horapollo, a late 5th century Greek study of hieroglyphic writing. In addition to reviewing and drawing on earlier approaches it explores the range of signs and meanings for which Horapollo is interested in...