Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World
Essays in Honour of Miriam Griffin
Tessa Rajak editor Gillian Clark editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:29th Aug '02
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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?
... 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. * JACT Review *
The ultimate shape of this fine collection,...eschews the canonical for a range of new questions and neglected texts. * C. E. W. Steel *
ISBN: 9780198299905
Dimensions: 224mm x 146mm x 24mm
Weight: 530g
368 pages