Arranged by topic rather than philosophical school, this study gives a comprehensive account of the principal doctrines of the Stoics, Epicureans and various Sceptical traditions from the death of Alexander the Great to about 200 AD.
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..."this attractive volume...is born from teaching experience, and gives a better understanding of the significance of this aspect of ancient thought."
-"The Journal of Indo-European Studies
..."[Sharples] has written an attractive, brief, and uniformly useful guide for complete novices, that will help students over the initial hurdles to understand the philosophy of the period ... The beginner is in safe hands."
-"Bryn Mawr Classical Review
-"The Journal of Indo-European Studies
..."[Sharples] has written an attractive, brief, and uniformly useful guide for complete novices, that will help students over the initial hurdles to understand the philosophy of the period ... The beginner is in safe hands."
-"Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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R W Sharples holds a personal Chair in Classics at University College, London. He has published widely in Classical Studies and Philosophy.
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A scholarly book, but still accessible
3 Jan 1999
By Eduardo Pellegrino (eduardo@stoa.demon.co.uk)
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Quite a short book (just over 100 pages of meat) but it covers a lot of ground. Mostly it is concerned with the Stoic and Epicurean schools, and it compares them on a topic by topic basis. The Sceptics are (unsurprisingly) pretty much confined to epistemology, but their critiques of Stoic and Epicurean positions are frequently cited and commented on. One advantage of classical philosophy over most modern stuff is that the terminology is much simpler. This book could be read without any background in philosophy.
All in all a pretty good read
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An adequate survey...not much more.
3 Jan 2012
By The Great Penguin Adventure
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If you're interested in getting a quick run through the philosophy of the Hellenistic period, this would be an adequate primer. Probably best used to point the way to primary sources or more thorough scholarship. Designed as an introduction, it should not be faulted for often skimming difficult issues.
If you have some philosophical background you will likely be able to identify the times when Sharples makes an assertion without much argumentation (again, since this is an introduction, I'm willing to overlook some of this). If this is your first exposure to the Hellenistic period, you may want to take some of his claims with a grain of salt.
It's unlikely that there is another, more concise introduction to this period around, so this fills a need. If you're looking for deeper, more thorough scholarship on the period, then look elsewhere.
If you have some philosophical background you will likely be able to identify the times when Sharples makes an assertion without much argumentation (again, since this is an introduction, I'm willing to overlook some of this). If this is your first exposure to the Hellenistic period, you may want to take some of his claims with a grain of salt.
It's unlikely that there is another, more concise introduction to this period around, so this fills a need. If you're looking for deeper, more thorough scholarship on the period, then look elsewhere.
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boring, discordent
30 April 2001
By irick
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I didn't much care for this book. The famous chapters by topic sound simple enough but do cause some confusion--potent smatterings is the result in the main, which cannot hold my attention. If you are interested in Stoicism the most interesting comentary that I have found thus far is Sandbach's "The Stoics".
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