The Passionate Intellect

by Ayres,Lewis

• ISBN13: 9781560002109
• ISBN10: 1560002107
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-06-01
• Publisher: Transaction Pub

Summary

Ian Kidd, of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, has long been known as a world-class scholar of ancient philosophy and of Posidonius, in particular. Through his long struggle with the fragments of Posidonius, Kidd has done more than any other scholar of ancient philosophy to dispel the myth of "Pan-Posidonianism." He has presented a clearer picture of the Posidonius to whom we may have access.
The bulk of this volume is built around the theme of Kidd's own inaugural lecture at St. Andrews, "The Passionate Intellect." Many of the contributions follow this theme through by examining how individual people and texts influenced the direction of various traditions.
Many of the papers naturally concentrate on ancient philosophy and its legacy. Others deal with ancient literary theory, history, poetry, and drama. Most of the papers deal with their subjects at some length and are significant contributions in their own right.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Abbreviations
Bibliography of I.G. Kidd
Contributors
The Greeks and the Passionate Intellect	p. 1
Poetic Rhythms in the Myth of the Soul	p. 13
Plato, Imagination and Romanticism	p. 23
Tradition and Innovation in the Transformation of Socrates' Divine Sign	p. 39
[actual symbol not reproducible] in Plato's Cratylus	p. 57
Counting Plato's Principles	p. 67
Pindar and the Victory Ode	p. 85
Euripides: Ion and Phoenissae	p. 105
The Roman Mind and the Power of Fiction	p. 117
Did Thucydides Write for Readers or Hearers?	p. 131
Aenesidemus versus Pyrrho: Il fuoco scalda "per natura" (Sextus M. VIII 215 e XI 69)	p. 145
Theophrastus, no. 84 FHSandG: There's Nothing New Here!	p. 161
Alexandria, Syene, Meroe: Symmetry in Eratosthenes' Measurement of the World	p. 177
Seneca's Natural Questions - Changing Readerships	p. 203
Crates of Mallos, Dionysius Thrax and the Tradition of Stoic Grammatical Theory	p. 213
Aenesidemus and the Academics	p. 235
The Pathology of Ps.-Hippocrates, On Ancient Medicine	p. 249
The Discipline of Self-knowledge in Augustine's De trinitate Book X	p. 261
Melanchthon's First Manual on Rhetorical Categories in Criticism of the Bible	p. 297
"A Kind of Warmth": Some Reflections on the Concept of "Grace" in the Neoplatonic Tradition	p. 323
Ausonius at Prayer	p. 333
The Philosophy of the Codification of Law in Fifth Century Constantinople and Victorian Edinburgh	p. 345
Index of Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Sources	p. 363
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