Philosophy and power in the Graeco-Roman world : essays in honour of Miriam Griffin /
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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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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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.