Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World : Essays in Honour of Miriam Griffin

by: Clark, G. Rajak, T.

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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 together seventeen 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?

Bibliography of Works ix
Miriam T. Griffin
Notes on Contributors xv
Introduction: Philosophy and Power 1 (12)
Gillian Clark
Tessa Rajak
I. Philosophy and the State
Did Socrates Agree to Obey the Laws of Athens?
13 (18)
Lesley Brown
The Worth of Human Dignity: Two Tensions in Stoic Cosmopolitanism
31 (20)
Martha C. Nussbaum
Cicero and the Defining of the Ius Civile
51 (18)
Jill Harries
Government and Law: Ulpian, a Philosopher in Politics?
69 (22)
Fergus Millar
II. The Power of Philosophy
Academic Therapy: Philo of Larissa and Cicero's Project in the Tusculans
91 (20)
Malcolm Schofield
Beyond Comparison: M. Sergius, Fortunae Victor
111 (22)
Mary Beagon
Women, Power, and Philosophy at Rome and Beyond
133 (24)
Barbara Levick
Philosophy in the Second Sophistic
157 (16)
Glen W. Bowersock
III. Power
Cicero: A Man of Letters in Politics
173 (8)
Zvi Yavetz
Deus or Divus: The Genesis of Roman Terminology for Deified Emperors and a Philosopher's Contribution
181 (12)
David Wardle
Arcanum Imperii: The Powers of Augustus
193 (18)
Hannah M. Cotton
Alexander Yakobson
An Emperor is Made: Senatorial Politics and Trajan's Adoption by Nerva in 97
211 (18)
Werner Eck
IV. Philosophy and Religion
`Foolishness to the Greeks': Jews and Christians in the Public Life of the Empire
229 (22)
Loveday Alexander
Old Philosophy and New Power: Cicero in Fifth-Century North Africa
251 (20)
Margaret Atkins
The Creation of Orthodoxy in Neoplatonism
271 (22)
Polymnia Athanassiadi
Ancient Philosophers
293 (14)
Jonathan Barnes
Bibliography 307 (20)
Index of Ancient Names 327 (9)
Index of Modern Authors 336 (3)
General Index 339

Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World : Essays in Honour of Miriam Griffin

by: Clark, G. Rajak, T.

• ISBN-13: 9780198299905 / 978-0-19-829990-5
• ISBN-03: 0198299907 / 0-19-829990-7
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002

Price: 89,00 EURO

(in stock)