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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Bibliographical outline on the history of scholarship on ancient philosophy
• Abbreviations
• 1. East and West
• 2. Ancient Philosophy and the doxographical tradition
• Focus Box 1: The transmission of ancient philosophy
• 3. Philosophical stones: ancient philosophy as reflected in the mirror of inscriptions
• 4. Socio-Historical Outline of the Archaic period
• 5. ‘You Greeks are always children’: the infancy of wisdom
• 6. The Presocratics
• Focus Box 2: New discoveries of ancient philosophical and scientific texts
• A map of the philosophical schools in ancient Athens. Drawing by Francesco Fazzio
• 7. The sophists and Socrates
• Focus Box 3: The sophists: key figures
• 8. Socio-historical outline of the Classical and Hellenistic periods
• 9. Plato
• 10. The Academy from Plato to Polemo
• Focus Box 4: Academic philosophers (fourth-first century BCE)
• 11. Aristotle
• Focus Box 5: Aristotle’s Poetics
• 12. Hellenistic philosophy
• 13. Socio-historical outline of the Roman period
• 14. Some remarks on ancient science
• Focus Box 6: Logos and algorithms
• 15. Philosophy in Rome
• Focus Box 7: Lucretius: a failed subversion
• 16. Socio-historical outline of the later Roman empire
• 17. Platonism, Pythagoreanism, Aristotelianism
• 18. Greek philosophy and philosophers in the third–sixth century CE: from Plotinus to the last Alexandrian commentators
• 19. Augustine of Hippo and the new Christian culture
• Appendix: Aristotle’s Testament
• Index locorum (by Rosario Giovanni Scalia)
• Index (by Rosario Giovanni Scalia)