Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens
- Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Athens: An Introduction
- 1 #Leagros: An Athenian Life
- Part I The Urban Fabric
- Part II Inhabitants
- Part III Business/Commerce
- Part IV Culture and Sport
- 21 The Philosophical Schools
- 22 Athletics, Democracy, and War
- 23 Theatrical Spaces
- 24 Athenian Festivals
- 25 Eating and Drinking
- 26 Sex and the City
- Part V Politics
- Reception
- Index
- References
21 - The Philosophical Schools
from Part IV - Culture and Sport
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2021
- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens
- Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Athens: An Introduction
- 1 #Leagros: An Athenian Life
- Part I The Urban Fabric
- Part II Inhabitants
- Part III Business/Commerce
- Part IV Culture and Sport
- 21 The Philosophical Schools
- 22 Athletics, Democracy, and War
- 23 Theatrical Spaces
- 24 Athenian Festivals
- 25 Eating and Drinking
- 26 Sex and the City
- Part V Politics
- Reception
- Index
- References
Summary
Throughout the many centuries of their existence, the Academy, the Peripatos, the Garden, and the Stoa complemented and competed with each other in promoting distinctive ways of being in the world. The development of their philosophical thought amid the historical and topographical realities of ancient Athens turned their adherents into enduring models of how people should think, act, live, and die.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens , pp. 295 - 306Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
References
Further Reading
Rihll 2003 discusses the general dynamics of teaching and learning in ancient Athens, while Natali 2003 and Haake 2010 offer short overviews of the philosophical schools’ topography and practices. On their various doctrines, see Long and Sedley 1987; on sculpted representations of philosophers, see Zanker 1995; on images of education on Athenian vases, see Oakley 2020, 103–112. For particulars regarding Plato’s Academy, consult Caruso 2013 and Kalligas et al. 2020; for Aristotle and the Lyceum, Natali 2013. Clay 2009 examines Epicurus’ Garden, and Kechagia 2010 the Stoa.