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 ...
Epicurus on the Self
1st Edition
By Attila Németh
February 25, 2020
Epicurus on the Self reconstructs a part of Epicurean ethics which only survives on the fragmentary papyrus rolls excavated from an ancient library in Herculaneum, On Nature XXV. The aim of this book is to contribute to a deeper understanding of Epicurus’ moral psychology, ethics and of its robust ...
Flow and Flux in Plato's Philosophy
1st Edition
By Andrew J. Mason
December 12, 2019
In this bold new study, Andrew J. Mason seeks both to shed light on the key issue of flux in Plato’s work, and to show that there is also in Plato a notion of flow that needs to be distinguished from flux. Mason brings out the importance of this hitherto neglected distinction, and proposes on its ...
Forms, Souls, and Embryos: Neoplatonists on Human Reproduction
1st Edition
By James Wilberding
December 12, 2019
Forms, Souls, and Embryos allows readers coming from different backgrounds to appreciate the depth and originality with which the Neoplatonists engaged with and responded to a number of philosophical questions central to human reproduction, including: What is the causal explanation of the embryo’s ...