Philosophy and power in the Graeco-Roman world
Subtitle: essays in honour of Miriam Griffin
By: edited by Gillian Clark and Tessa Rajak
Contributors: Griffin, Miriam T.; Clark, Gillian; Rajak, Tessa, 1946-
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Philosophy, Ancient; Power (Philosophy) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-326) and indexes
Table of contents: title: Bibliography of works by Miriam T. Griffin; title: Did Socrates agree to obey the laws of Athens? / Lesley Brown; title: The worth of human dignity: two tensions in Stoic cosmopolitanism / Martha C. Nussbaum; title: Cicero and the defining of the Ius civile / Jill Harries; title: Government and law: Ulpian, a philosopher in politics? / Fergus Millar; title: Academic therapy: Philo of Larissa and Cicero's project in the Tusculans / Malcolm Schofield; title: Beyond comparison: M. Sergius, Fortunae victor / Mary Beagon; title: Women, power, and philosophy at Rome and beyond / Barbara Levick; title: Philosophy in the second sophistic / Glen W. Bowersock; title: Cicero: a man of letters in politics / Zvi Yavetz; title: Deus or Divus: the genesis of Roman terminology for deified emperors and a philosopher's contribution / David Wardle; title: Arcanum imperii: the powers of Augustus / Hannah M. Cotton and Alexander Yakobson; title: An emperor is made: senatorial politics and Trajan's adoption of Nerva in 97 / Werner Eck; title: 'Foolishness to the Greeks': Jews and Christians in the public life of the empire / Loveday Alexander; title: Old philosophy and new power: Cicero in fifth-century North Africa / Margaret Atkins; title: The creation of orthodoxy in neoplatonism / Polymnia Athanassiadi; title: Ancient philosophers / Jonathan Barnes