This is a 1950 collection of eight essays about Plato and the Presocratic philosophers who were F. M. Cornford's particular interest in the field of Greek thought.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Memoir; Note; 1. The unconscious element in literature and philosophy (1921); 2. The harmony of the spheres (1930); 3. The unwritten philosophy (1935); 4. Plato's commonwealth (1935); 5. The doctrine of Eros in Plato's Symposium (1937); 6. Greek natural philosophy and modern science (1938); 7. A ritual basis for Hesiod's Theofony (1941); 8. The Marxist view of ancient philosophy (1942); Appendix: a list of Cornford's publications on classical subjects (excluding reviews).
