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

Other author/creatorGriffin, Miriam T. (Miriam Tamara)
Other author/creatorClark, Gillian.
Other author/creatorRajak, Tessa, 1946-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoOxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Descriptionxvii, 348 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
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 and 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [307]-326) and indexes.
LCCN 2001059303
ISBN0198299907 (alk. paper)

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