Episodes
Sunday Apr 29, 2012
HoP 078 - Middle Men - the Platonic Revival
Sunday Apr 29, 2012
Sunday Apr 29, 2012
Pioneering thinkers Eudorus, Alcinous, and Numenius fuse Pythagoreanism with Platonism and pave the way for Plotinus.
Sunday Apr 22, 2012
HoP 077 - Caesarian Section – Philosophy in the Roman Empire
Sunday Apr 22, 2012
Sunday Apr 22, 2012
In late antiquity, Aristotelianism and Platonism made a comeback, and pagan philosophy developed alongside Judaism and Christianity.
Sunday Apr 15, 2012
HoP 076 - R.J. Hankinson on Galen
Sunday Apr 15, 2012
Sunday Apr 15, 2012
Jim Hankinson tells Peter about the life, work and philosophical contributions of Galen
Sunday Apr 08, 2012
HoP 075 - The Joy of Sects - Ancient Medicine and Philosophy
Sunday Apr 08, 2012
Sunday Apr 08, 2012
Hellenistic doctors discover the nerves and argue about method; Galen passes judgment
Sunday Apr 01, 2012
HoP 074 - Tony Long on the Self in Hellenistic Philosophy
Sunday Apr 01, 2012
Sunday Apr 01, 2012
Leading Hellenistic philosophy scholar Tony Long talks to Peter about the self, ethics and politics in the Stoics, Epicureans and Skeptics