In this new series leading classical scholars interpret afresh the ancient world for the modern reader. They stress those questions and institutions that most c

In his previous volume in this series, Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle, G. E. R. Lloyd pointed out that although there is no exact equivalent to our te

This study of the origins and progress of Greek science focuses especially on the interaction between scientific and traditional patterns of thought from the si

In this volume I have attempted to give especial and marked attention to the fate of Greek science in late antiquity. Elementary texts in the past have long ign

We all want to understand the world around us, and the ancient Greeks were the first to try and do so in a way we can properly call scientific. Their thought an