L ANGUAGE AND LEARNING, Philosophy of Language in the Hellenistic Age Proceedings of the Ninth Symposium Hellenisticum
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loginThe philosophers and scholars of the Hellenistic world laid the foun-dations upon which the Western tradition based analytical grammar,linguistics, philosophy of language, and other disciplines probing thenature and origin of human communication. Building on the pioneer-ing work of Plato and Aristotle, these thinkers developed a wide rangeof theories about the nature and origin of language which reflectedbroader philosophical commitments. In this collection of ten essays ateam of distinguished scholars examines the philosophies of languagedeveloped by, among others, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, the Stoics andLucretius. They probe the early thinkers’ philosophical adequacy andtheir impact on later theorists. With discussions ranging from theStoics on the origin of language to the theories of language in thetwelfth and thirteenth centuries, the collection will be of interest tostudents of philosophy and of language in the classical period andbeyond.
