"Essays in Ancient Philosophy " was first published in 1987.
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To understand ancient philosophy "in its concrete, complex
detail," Michael Frede says, "one has also to look at all the other
histories to which it is tied by an intricate web of casual
connections which run both ways." Frede's distinctive approach to
the history of ancient philosophy is closely tied to his specific
interests within the field - the Hellenistic philosophers and those
of late antiquity, who are the primary subjects of this book. Long
ignored or even maligned, the Stoics and Skeptics, medical
philosophers, and grammarians are extremely interesting once their
actual views are reconstructed and it is possible to recognize
their ties to earlier and later philosophical thought. Refusing to
study them as paradigms of achievement, or to seek purely
philosophical explanations for their views, Frede draws instead
upon those "other histories"--of religion, social structure, law
and politics--to illuminate their work and to show how it was
interpreted and transformed by succeeding generations.
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