Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World

Essays in Honour of Miriam Griffin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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Miriam Griffin is unrivalled as a bridge-builder between historians of the Graeco-Roman world and students of its philosophies. This volume in her honour brings togetherseventeen international specialists. Their essays range from Socrates to late antiquity, extending to Diogenes, Cicero, Pliny the Elder, Marcus Aurelius, the Second Sophistic, Ulpian, Augustine, the Neoplatonist tradition, women philosophers, provision for basic human needs, the development of law, the formulation of imperial power, and the interpretation of Judaism and early Christianity. Emperors and drop-outs, media stars and administrators, top politicians and abstruse professionals, even ordinary citizens in their epitaphs, were variously called philosophers. Philosophy could offer those in power moral support or confrontation, a language for making choices or an intellectual diversion, but they might disregard philosophy and get on with the exercise of power. 'Philosophy' means 'love of wisdom', but what was the power of philosophy?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-08-29
Mått:146 x 224 x 23 mm
Vikt:530 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198299905

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Gillian Clark is Professor of Ancient History, University of BristolTessa Rajak is Reader in Classics, University of Reading

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... delightful ... cannot fail to interest and impress ... there is much for anyone interested in the exercise of power in the Greco-Roman world. This is an elegant volume and a worthy presentation to a distinguished and sympathetic teacher and scholar.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Philosophy and Power ; 2. DID SOCRATES AGREE TO OBEY THE LAWS OF ATHENS? ; 3. The Worth of Human Dignity: Two Tensions in Stoic Cosmpolitanism ; 4. Cicero and the Defining of the Ius Civile ; 5. Government and Law: Ulpian, a Philosopher in Politics? ; 6. ACADEMIC THERAPY: PHILO OF LARISSA AND CICERO'S PROJECT IN THE TUSCULANS ; 7. Beyond Comparison: M. Sergius, fortunae victor ; 8. Women, Power, and Philosophy at Rome and Beyond ; 9. Philosophy in the Second Sophistic ; 10. CICERO: A MAN OF LETTERS - IN POLITICS ; 11. Deus or Divus: The Genesis of Roman Terminology for Deified Emperors and a Philosopher's Contribution ; 12. Arcanum imperii: The Powers of Augustus ; 13. An Emperor is Made: Senatorial Politics and Trajan's Adoption by Nerva in 97 ; 14. 'FOOLISHNESS TO THE GREEKS': JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN THE PUBLIC LIFE OF THE EMPIRE ; 15. Old Philosophy and New Power: Cicero in fifth-century North Africa ; 16. Philosophy and power: The Creation of Orthodoxy in Neoplatonism ; 17. Ancient Philosophers