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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2018
      September 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108186650
      9781316510049
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108186650
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.64kg, 382 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Philosophy, Classical Studies (General), Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Classical Studies
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    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Classical Philosophy, Classical Studies (General), Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy
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    Cambridge Classical Studies
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    Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy is often characterised in terms of competitive individuals debating orally with one another in public arenas. But it also developed over its long history a sense in which philosophers might acknowledge some other particular philosopher or group of philosophers as an authority and offer to that authority explicit intellectual allegiance. This is most obvious in the development after the classical period of the philosophical 'schools' with agreed founders and, most importantly, canonical founding texts. There also developed a tradition of commentary, interpretation, and discussion of texts which itself became a mode of philosophical debate. As time went on, the weight of a growing tradition of reading and appealing to a certain corpus of foundational texts began to shape how later antiquity viewed its philosophical past and also how philosophical debate and inquiry was conducted. In this book leading scholars explore aspects of these important developments.

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