| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 434 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction / Paul Kalligas -- In the Shadow of Athena Polias: The Divinities of the Academy, the Training of Politai and Death in Service to Athens / Daniela Marchiandi -- Observations on the Topography of Ancient Academia / Manolis Panayiotopoulos and Tania Chatziefthimiou -- he Gymnasium of the Academy and the School of Plato / Eutychia Lygouri-Tolia -- The Academy in Athenian Politics and Society – Between Disintegration and Integration: The First Eighty Years (387/6–306/5) / Matthias Haake -- Plato in the Academy: Some Cautious Relections / John Glucker -- Plato and the Mathematics of the Academy / Vassilis Karasmanis -- Euclid of Alexandria: A Child of the Academy? / Michalis Sialaros -- The Study of Natural Kinds in the Early Academy / István Bodnár -- Approaches to the Pythagorean Acusmata in the Early Academy / Phillip Sidney Horky -- Polemo, grosser Schatten of the Old Academy / John Dillon -- One Academy? The Transition from Polemo and Crates to Arcesilaus / Harold Tarrant -- Carneades’ heological Arguments / David Sedley -- The End of the Academy / Mauro Bonazzi -- The Academy through Epicurean Eyes: Some Lives of Academic Philosophers in Philodemus’ Syntaxis / Myrto Hatzimichali -- Appendix: Philodemus’ History of the Philosophers: Plato and the Academy (PHerc. 1021 and 164) / Translated with Introduction by Paul Kalligas and Voula Tsouna, and Notes by Myrto Hatzimichali |
| Summary |
"Plato's Academy is commonly regarded as the most prestigious and most influential of all educational institutions in antiquity. Founded by one of the greatest thinkers of all times, its activity as a centre of philosophical and scientific research spanned at least three centuries (from ca. 387 to ca. 86 B.C.), while the influence it has exerted on contemporary and later philosophical and scientific thought is almost impossible to overestimate. The Academy's history is supposed to reflect not only the theoretical aspirations of its founder and his followers, but also the manner in which they believed their views should operate within a given social context"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 29, 2020) |
| Subject |
Plato.
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| SUBJECT |
Plato. fast (OCoLC)fst00046610 |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Ancient.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kalligas, Paulos, editor.
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| LC no. |
2019040858 |
| ISBN |
9781108554664 |
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1108554660 |
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