Foreign Influences : The Circulation of Knowledge in Antiquity

The Greeks had a rich and varied relationship with foreign lands and people, which made possible a real circulation of knowledge throughout the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic times. The essays collected in this volume aim at exploring the hypothesis that the most adventurous intellectuals saw foreign lands and foreigners as repositories of knowledge that the Greeks σοφοί had to engage with, in the hope of bringing back home valuables in the form of new ideas. Each of the articles included in this collective work explores one aspect of the "stranger" as a potential source, with contributions mostly focused on Plato, Xenophon, Democritus, Aristotle, Diogenes, Cicero, and Galen. [Publisher's text].

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