Probabilities, hypotheticals, and counterfactuals in ancient Greek thought
This volume explores the conceptual terrain defined by the Greek word eikos: the probable, likely, or reasonable. A term of art in Greek rhetoric, a defining feature of literary fiction, a seminal mode of historical, scientific, and philosophical inquiry, eikos was a way of thinking about the probab...
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: eikos in ancient Greek thought
- Eikos arguments in Athenian forensic oratory / Michael Gagarin
- Eikos in Plato's Phaedrus / Jenny Bryan
- Aristotle on the value of "probability," persuasiveness, and verisimilitude in rhetorical argument / James Allen
- "Likely stories" and the political art in Plato's Laws / Ryan K. Balot
- Open and speak your mind: citizen agency, the likelihood of truth, and democratic knowledge in archaic and classical Greece / Vincent Farenga
- Counterfactual history and Thucydides / Robert Tordoff
- Homer's Achaean wall and the hypothetical past / Karen Bassi
- Play of the improbable: Euripides' unlikely Helen / Victoria Wohl
- Revision in Greek literary papyri / Sean Gurd
- Likeness and likelihood in classical Greek art / Verity Platt
- "Why doesn't my baby look like me?" Likeness and likelihood in ancient theories of reproduction / Daryn Lehoux
- Galen on the chances of life / Brooke Holmes
- Afterword / Catherine Gallagher