Philosophia Togata II Plato and Aristotle at Rome

by Barnes, Jonathan; Griffin, Miriam

• ISBN13: 9780198152224
• ISBN10: 0198152221
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-23
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

The role of philosophy as a valued and effective part of the culture of civilized Romans has aroused an increasing amount of scholarly interest in recent years. In this volume, which gathers together nine papers delivered at a series of seminars on philosophy and Roman society in theUniversity of Oxford, scholars of classical literature, Roman history, and ancient philosophy investigate the place of Platonism and Aristotelianism in Roman intellectual, cultural, and political life from the second century BC to the third century AD. In addition to chapters on such importantfigures as Cicero, Varro, Plutarch, Favorinus, Celsus, and Porphyry, the book contains essays on the tradition of Aristotle's library at Rome, the theory of the mixed constitution, and the anonymous commentary on Plato's Theaetetus. It thus forms a complement to Philosophia Togata I which addressed the importance of the doctrines of the Hellenistic schools to Roman society during the first century BC.

Table of Contents

Roman Aristotle	1	(69)
Jonathan Barnes
The Theory of the Mixed Constitution at Rome	70	(16)
Andrew Lintott
From Aristotle to Atticus: Cicero and Matius on Friendship	86	(24)
Miriam Griffin
Plato's Auctoritas and the Rebirth of the Commentary Tradition	110	(20)
David Sedley
Varro and the Antiquarianism of Philosophy	130	(35)
Thomas Tarver
Plutarch, Plato, Athens, and Rome	165	(23)
Simon Swain
Favorinus: the Man of Paradoxes	188	(30)
Leofranc Holford-Strevens
Celsus' Attack on the Christians	218	(23)
Michael Frede
Porphyry: Ethnicity, Language, and Alien Wisdom	241	(22)
Fergus Millar
Bibliography	263	(24)
Maddalena Bonelli
Benjamin Morison
Index Locorum	287	(6)
Index of Names	293	(4)
General Index	297