Philosophy and power in the Graeco-Roman world : essays in honour of Miriam Griffin

Philosophy and power in the Graeco-Roman world : essays in honour of Miriam Griffin / edited by Gillian Clark and Tessa Rajak.

Miriam Griffin is unrivalled as a bridge-builder between historians of the Graeco-Roman world and students of its philosophies. This wide-ranging volume in her honour brings together essays from seventeen international specialists, on a topic which is of major importance. Its subject matter covers f...

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Other Authors: Griffin, Miriam T. (Miriam Tamara), Clark, Gillian, Rajak, Tessa, 1946-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Philosophy, Ancient.
Power (Philosophy) > History.
Philosophy, Ancient
Power (Philosophy)
History
Festschriften.
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Table of Contents:
  • Bibliography of works by Miriam T. Griffin
  • Did Socrates agree to obey the laws of Athens? / Lesley Brown
  • The worth of human dignity : two tensions in Stoic cosmopolitanism / Martha C. Nussbaum
  • Cicero and the defining of the Ius civile / Jill Harries
  • Government and law : Ulpian, a philosopher in politics? / Fergus Millar
  • Academic therapy : Philo of Larissa and Cicero's project in the Tusculans / Malcolm Schofield
  • Beyond comparison : M. Sergius, Fortunae victor / Mary Beagon
  • Women, power, and philosophy at Rome and beyond / Barbara Levick
  • Philosophy in the second sophistic / Glen W. Bowersock
  • Cicero : a man of letters in politics / Zvi Yavetz
  • Deus or Divus : the genesis of Roman terminology for deified emperors and a philosopher's contribution / David Wardle
  • Arcanum imperii : the powers of Augustus / Hannah M. Cotton, Alexander Yakobson
  • An emperor is made : senatorial politics and Trajan's adoption of Nerva in 97 / Werner Eck
  • 'Foolishness to the Greeks': Jews and Christians in the public life of the empire / Loveday Alexander
  • Old philosophy and new power : Cicero in fifth-century North Africa / Margaret Atkins
  • The creation of orthodoxy in neoplatonism / Polymnia Athanassiadi
  • Ancient philosophers / Jonathan Barnes.

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