PHILO & POWER GRAECO ROMAN WORLD C

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-829990-5
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 596 g

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?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark

Clark, Gillian

Rajak, Tessa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Gillian Clark and Tessa Rajak: Introduction: Philosophy and Power

- I. Philosophy and the State

- 3: Martha Nussbaum: The Worth of Human Dignity: Two Tensions in Stoic Cosmpolitanism

- 4: Jill Harries: Cicero and the Defining of the Ius Civile

- 5: Fergus Millar: Government and Law: Ulpian, a Philosopher in Politics?

- II. The Power of Philosophy

- 7: Mary Beagon: Beyond Comparison: M. Sergius, fortunae victor

- 8: Barbara Levick: Women, Power, and Philosophy at Rome and Beyond

- 9: Glen Bowersock: Philosophy in the Second Sophistic

- III. Power

- 11: David Wardle: Deus or Divus: The Genesis of Roman Terminology for Deified Emperors and a Philosopher's Contribution

- 12: Hannah Cotton and Alexander Yakobson: Arcanum imperii: The Powers of Augustus

- 13: Werner Eck: An Emperor is Made: Senatorial Politics and Trajan's Adoption by Nerva in 97

- IV. Philosophy of Religion

- 15: Margaret Atkins: Old Philosophy and New Power: Cicero in fifth-century North Africa

- 16: Polymnia Athanassiadi: Philosophy and power: The Creation of Orthodoxy in Neoplatonism

- 17: Jonathan Barnes: Ancient Philosophers

Über Autor(innen)

Gillian Clark is Professor of Ancient History, University of Bristol

Tessa Rajak is Reader in Classics, University of Reading