The third volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical ...

All volumes of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek philosophy have won their due acclaim.

Plato, however, so prolific a writer, so profoundly original in his thought, and so colossal an influence on the later history of philosophy, that it has not been possible to confine him to one volume.

The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship.

In this volume Professor Guthrie continues and completes his account of Plato's philosophy.

Long renowned as one of the clearest and best introductions to ancient Greek philosophy for non-specialists, W.K.C Guthrie's The Greek Philosophers offers us a brilliant insight into the hidden foundations of Greek philosophy - foundations ...

In the second volume of his History of Greek Philosophy Professor Guthrie completes his study of the Presocratic tradition.

All volumes of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek philosophy have won their due acclaim.