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3The Hellenistic Philosophers: Volume 2, Greek and Latin Texts with Notes and BibliographyCambridge University Press. 1989.This comprehensive sourcebook makes available in the original Latin and Greek the principal extant texts required for the study of the Stoic, Epicurean and sceptical schools of philosophy. The material is organised by schools, and within each school topics are treated thematically. The volume presents the same texts as are translated in The Hellenistic Philosophers, Volume 1. The authors provide their own critical apparatus, and also supply detailed notes on the more difficult texts. This volume…Read more
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34The Hellenistic Philosophers: Volume 1, Translations of the Principal Sources with Philosophical CommentaryCambridge University Press. 1987.Volume 1 presents the texts in new translations by the authors, and these are accompanied by a philosophical and historical commentary designed for use by all readers, including those with no background in the classical world. With its glossary and indexes, this volume can stand alone as an independent tool of study.
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Les philosophes hellénistiques, 3 volRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 192 (2): 248-248. 2002.
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97The midwife of Platonism: text and subtext in Plato's TheaetetusOxford University Press. 2004.Plato's Theaetetus is an acknowledged masterpiece, and among the most influential texts in the history of epistemology. Since antiquity it has been debated whether this dialogue was written by Plato to support his familiar metaphysical doctrines, or represents a self-distancing from these. David Sedley's book offers a via media, founded on a radical separation of the author, Plato, from his main speaker, Socrates. The dialogue, it is argued, is addressed to readers familiar with Plato's mature d…Read more
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The Cambridge companion to Greek and Roman philosophy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2003.This wide-ranging introduction to the study of philosophy in the ancient world surveys the period's developments and evaluates a comprehensive series of major thinkers, ranging from Pythagoras to Epicurus. Tables, illustrations, and extensive advice on further reading contribute to an ideal book for survey courses on the history of ancient philosophy. It will be an invaluable guide for those interested in the philosophical thought of a rich and formative period.
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18Lucretius and the transformation of Greek wisdomCambridge University Press. 1998.This book is designed to appeal both to those interested in Roman poetry and to specialists in ancient philosophy. In it David Sedley explores Lucretius ' complex relationship with Greek culture, in particular with Empedocles, whose poetry was the model for his own, with Epicurus, the source of his philosophical inspiration, and with the Greek language itself. He includes a detailed reconstruction of Epicurus' great treatise On Nature, and seeks to show how Lucretius worked with this as his sole…Read more
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56Atomism's Eleatic rootsIn Patricia Curd & Daniel W. Graham (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.Presocratic atomism was one of the most influential of the early theories: both Plato and Aristotle thought of it as a major competing theory, and it was an important source for post-Aristotelian Hellenistic theories. It has been commonplace that the atomism developed first by Leucippus of Abdera and then by Democritus of Abdera was a reaction to the Eleatic arguments of Zeno and Melissus, but the details of that influence have sometimes seemed rather hazy. This article brings them into sharper …Read more
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28Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xvii, 1999 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1999.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a annual volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. This year's contributions range over a thousand years of philosophy, from the Presocratics to Philoponus. Particularly prominent in the volume are Aristotle and the Stoics. 'standard reading among specialists in ancient philosophy' Brad Inwood, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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2Plato's CratylusCambridge University Press. 2003.Plato's Cratylus is a brilliant but enigmatic dialogue. It bears on a topic, the relation of language to knowledge, which has never ceased to be of central philosophical importance, but tackles it in ways which at times look alien to us. In this reappraisal of the dialogue, Professor Sedley argues that the etymologies which take up well over half of it are not an embarrassing lapse or semi-private joke on Plato's part. On the contrary, if taken seriously as they should be, they are the key to un…Read more
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32Epicurus' theological innatismIn Jeffrey Fish & Kirk R. Sanders (eds.), Epicurus and the Epicurean tradition, Cambridge University Press. pp. 29. 2011.
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23Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Xxvi: Summer 2004 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2004.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback. In this volume, articles range from Heraclitus to Proclus, with several on each of Aristotle and Plato. 'standard reading among specialists in ancient philosophy' Brad Inwood, Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
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Diogenes of Oenoanda on Cyrenaic HedonismProceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 48 159-74. 2002.
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2Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxix (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2000.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback. This volume features essays on Empedocles, Xenophon, and Socrates, with several on each of Plato and Aristotle.'unique value as a collection of outstanding contributions in the area of ancient philosophy.' Sara Rubinelli, Bryn Mawr Classica…Read more
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The dramatis personae of Plato's PhaedoIn Sedley David (ed.), Philosophical Dialogues: Plato, Hume, Wittgenstein, . pp. 3-26. 1995.
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18Colloquium 4Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 7 (1): 146-157. 1991.
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11Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume 21 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2001.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. Contributions in this volume range from Sarah Broadie on Plato's Timaeus, to Voula Tsouna on Philodemus. 'standard reading among specialists in ancient philosophy' Brad Inwood, Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
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74Plato Theaetetus 145–147Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 94 (1): 229-242. 1994.David Sedley, Lesley Brown; Plato Theaetetus 145–147, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 94, Issue 1, 1 June 1994, Pages 229–242, https://doi.org/1.
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4Myth, punishment, and politics in the "Gorgias"In Catalin Partenie (ed.), Plato’s Myths, Cambridge University Press. pp. 51-76. 2009.
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1Hesiod's Theogony and Plato's TimaeusIn G. R. Boys-Stones & J. H. Haubold (eds.), Plato and Hesiod, Oxford University Press. 2009.