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- Probabilities, Hypotheticals, and Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek Thought
- Probabilities, Hypotheticals, and Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Eikosarguments in Athenian forensic oratory
- Chapter 2 Eikosin Plato’sPhaedrus
- Chapter 3 Aristotle on the value of “probability,” persuasiveness, and verisimilitude in rhetorical argument
- Chapter 4 “Likely stories” and the political art in Plato’sLaws
- Chapter 5 Open and speak your mind
- Chapter 6 Counterfactual history and Thucydides
- Chapter 7 Homer’s Achaean wall and the hypothetical past
- Chapter 8 Play of the improbable
- Chapter 9 Revision in Greek literary papyri
- Chapter 10 Likeness and likelihood in classical Greek art
- Chapter 11 “Why doesn’t my baby look like me?”
- Chapter 12 Galen on the chances of life
- Chapter 13 Afterword
- References
- Index locorum
- General index
Chapter 12 - Galen on the chances of life
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Probabilities, Hypotheticals, and Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek Thought
- Probabilities, Hypotheticals, and Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Eikosarguments in Athenian forensic oratory
- Chapter 2 Eikosin Plato’sPhaedrus
- Chapter 3 Aristotle on the value of “probability,” persuasiveness, and verisimilitude in rhetorical argument
- Chapter 4 “Likely stories” and the political art in Plato’sLaws
- Chapter 5 Open and speak your mind
- Chapter 6 Counterfactual history and Thucydides
- Chapter 7 Homer’s Achaean wall and the hypothetical past
- Chapter 8 Play of the improbable
- Chapter 9 Revision in Greek literary papyri
- Chapter 10 Likeness and likelihood in classical Greek art
- Chapter 11 “Why doesn’t my baby look like me?”
- Chapter 12 Galen on the chances of life
- Chapter 13 Afterword
- References
- Index locorum
- General index
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