| Description |
1 online resource (x, 304 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- PART I. Philosophy and philosophi : from Cicero to Apuleius / Harry Hine -- PART II. Roman Pythagoras / Katharina Volk -- Philosophy is in the streets / James E.G. Zetzel -- To see and to be seen : on vision and perception in Lucretius and Cicero / Tobias Reinhardt -- Teaching Pericles : Cicero on the study of nature / Gretchen Reydams-Schils -- PART III. Tyrants, fire, and dangerous things / Andrew M. Riggsby -- Precept(or) and example in Seneca / Matthew Roller -- True greatness of soul in Seneca's De constantia sapientis / Yelena Baraz -- Minding the gap : Seneca, the self, and the sublime / Gareth D. Williams -- The emotional intelligence of Epicureans : doctrinalism and adaptation in Seneca's Epistles / Margaret Graver -- PART IV. You're playing you now : Helvidius Priscus as a Stoic hero / Wolfgang-Rainer Mann -- Patonizing Latin : Apuleius' Phaedo / Richard Fletcher -- Why ancient skeptics don't doubt the existence of the external world : Augustine and the beginnings of modern skepticism / Katja Maria Vogt |
| Summary |
This book explores from different but mutually informing disciplinary viewpoints the rise at Rome in the first centuries bce and ce of philosophy as a distinctly Roman mode of discourse; a central objective (albeit not to the exclusion of Greek philosophical writing at Rome) is to examine the ways in which, and the extent to which, the expressive capabilities of the Latin language gave distinctive shape and character to Roman philosophical discourse. While the birth of philosophical discourse in Latin is naturally implicated in Rome’s ongoing negotiation with Hellenistic cultural influence, this volume seeks to stress the confidence and enterprise with which Republican practitioners, Lucretius and Cicero most obvious among them, embarked on their pioneering philosophical projects; and then to stress the strategies with which Imperial writers, Seneca most prominent among them, built on or modified the advances made by their Republican forebears. On this approach, Latin philosophical authors do not simply receive, absorb, or passively transmit the Hellenistic models on which they draw. They mold, control, and react to or against those models, experimenting with the inherited systems and reformatting them as part of an assured assimilation of imported modes of thought. A key aim of this volume is therefore to picture this positive development at Rome through a series of chapter-by-chapter snapshots, all of which diversely contribute to our exploratory vision of what is Roman about Roman philosophy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 14, 2015) |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Ancient -- Congresses
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Civilization
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Philosophy, Ancient
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Rome -- Civilization -- Congresses
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Rome -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115094
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| Subject |
Rome (Empire)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Williams, Gareth D., editor.
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Volk, Katharina, 1969- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780190268862 |
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0190268867 |
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