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1 online resource (212 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; Whose Socrates?; Academic Mediation?; Appropriation and Response; A Later Rapprochement?; Chapter 1 Cardinal virtues: a contested Socratic inheritance ; Introduction; Zeno; Cleanthes; Chrysippus; Second Century Epilogue; Chapter 2 The Academy, the Stoics and Cicero on Plato's Timaeus ; Anticipating Stoic Physics? Speusippus and Xenocrates; Anticipating Stoic Physics: Polemo and Antiochus of Ascalon; where did cicero go?; Chapter 3 Chrysippus and Plato on the fragility of the head ; Introduction; The Problem of Cosmic Evil |
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Necessary ConcomitancesEpistemic/ontological necessity; Material necessity; Conditional necessity; Subtler Reasoning; Evil Explained?; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Plato and the Stoics on limits, parts and wholes ; Introduction; The Reality of (Some) Limits; Parts and Wholes; Parts and Wholes in the 'Parmenides'; The Broader Context; Chapter 5 Subtexts, connections and open opposition ; A Parallel: Plato's 'Republic' on Sparta; Galen, Chrysippus And Plato; Platonic Connections; Zeno Contra Plato; Subsequent Polemic; Chapter 6 Seneca against Plato: Letters 58 and 65 ; Introduction |
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Approaching 'Letters' 58 and 65The Story so Far; 'Letter' 58; 'Letter' 65; Conclusion; Appendix: Seneca, Letter 65 and The Phaedo; Chapter 7 Theôria and scholê in Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius: Platonic, Stoic or Socratic? ; Epictetus' Allusions to Plato; Marcus Aurelius' Quotations; An Acquired Taste for Platonic Contemplation?; From Heavens to Earth: The Objects of Contemplation in stoicism; From Theory to Practice: The Purpose of Contemplation; Contemplation Without Leisure: Doubts About the Scholastic Life; The 'Theaetetus' read as a socratic dialogue; Bibliography; Editor's Note |
| Summary |
Seven essays providing new and detailed explorations of the complex relationship between Plato and the Greek and Roman Stoic traditions |
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Index of names and subjectsIndex of passages |
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Print version record |
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Plato -- Influence
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Plato fast |
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Stoics.
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stoicism.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Stoics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781107419995 |
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1107419999 |
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