Originally published in 2005. This book focuses on how the ancients themselves saw the issue of the relation between philosophy and the individual sciences. Contributions, from a distinguished international panel of scholars, cover the whole of antiquity from the beginnings of both philosophy and science to the later Roman Empire.

Contents: Preface; Introduction: Philosophy and the sciences in Antiquity, R.W. Sharples; Remarks on the differentiation of Early Greek philosophy, Andr aks; Aristotle on kind-crossing, R.J. Hankinson; The place of zoology in Aristotle's natural philosophy, James G. Lennox; Between the Hippocratics and the Alexandrians: medicine, philosophy and science in the 4th century BCE, Philip J. van der Eijk; Mathematics as a model of method in Galen, G.E.R. Lloyd; The music of philosophy in Late Antiquity, Dominic J. O'Meara; Music therapy in Neoplatonism, Anne Sheppard; Index of works and passages cited from ancient authors; General index.