Essays on philosophy and Roman society
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Essays on philosophy and Roman society
(Philosophia togata, 1)
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1997
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Bibliography: p. [259]-288
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The mutual interaction of philosophy and Roman political and cultural life has aroused more and more interest in recent years among students of classical literature, Roman history, and ancient philosophy. In this volume, which gathers together some of the papers originally delivered at the seminar on Philosophy and Roman Society in the University of Oxford, scholars from all three disciplines investigate this interaction in the late Republic and early Empire, with
particular emphasis on the first century BC which can be seen as the formative period.
The book contains chapters on such key figures as Posidonius, Antiochus of Ascalon, Philodemus, Lucretius, Cicero, and Plutarch, as well as general essays on `Philosophy, Politics, and Politicians at Rome', and `Roman Rulers and the Philosophic Adviser'. There is also an analytical bibliography.
Table of Contents
- M. Griffin: Philosophy, politics, and politicians at Rome
- I. G. Kidd: Posidonius as Philosopher-Historian
- J. Barnes: Antiochus of Ascalon
- D. Sedley: Philosophical allegiance in the Greco-Roman world
- D. P. Fowler: Lucretius and politics
- J. Annas: Cicero on stoic moral philosophy and private property
- P. A. Brunt: Philosophy and religion in the late republic
- C. Pelling: Plutarch: Roman heroes and Greek culture
- E. Rawson: Roman rulers and the philosophic adviser
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