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Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the First Century BC
New Directions for Philosophy

Editor: Malcolm Schofield, University of Cambridge

Malcolm Schofield, Myrto Hatzimichali, Riccardo Chiaradonna, Marwan Rashed, Andrea Falcon, Anna Eunyoung Ju, Roberto Polito, A. A. Long, Mauro Bonazzi, David Sedley, Julia Annas, Ingo Gildenhard

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Date Published: October 2017
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isbn: 9781108439060

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This book presents an up-to-date overview of the main new directions taken by ancient philosophy in the first century BC, a period in which the dominance exercised in the Hellenistic age by Stoicism, Epicureanism and Academic Scepticism gave way to a more diverse and experimental philosophical scene. Its development has been much less well understood, but here a strong international team of leading scholars of the subject reconstruct key features of the changed environment. They examine afresh the evidence for some of the central Greek thinkers of the period, as well as illuminating Cicero's engagement with Plato both as translator and in his own philosophising. The intensity of renewed study of Aristotle's Categories and Plato's Timaeus is an especially striking outcome of their discussions. The volume will be indispensable for scholars and students interested in the history of Platonism and Aristotelianism.
- Provides an up-to-date overview of the main new directions in ancient philosophy in the first century BC
- Presents a series of original studies by leading scholars in the field of ancient philosophy
- Demonstrates the intensity of renewed study of Aristotle's Categories and Plato's Timaeus in the first century BC
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- Date Published: October 2017
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108439060
- length: 329 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 154 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Malcolm Schofield
1. The texts of Plato and Aristotle in the first century BC Myrto Hatzimichali
2. Platonist approaches to Aristotle: from Antiochus of Ascalon to Eudorus of Alexandria (and beyond) Riccardo Chiaradonna
3. Boethius' Aristotelian ontology Marwan Rashed
4. Aristotelianism in the first century BC: Xenarchus of Seleucia Andrea Falcon
5. Posidonius as historian of philosophy: an interpretation of Plutarch, De Animae Procreatione in Timaeo 22, 1023b-c Anna Eunyoung Ju
6. Asclepiades of Bithynia and Heraclides Ponticus: medical Platonism? Roberto Polito
7. The eclectic Pythagoreanism of Alexander Polyhistor A. A. Long
8. Pythagoreanizing Aristotle: Eudorus and the systematization of Platonism Mauro Bonazzi
9. Cicero and the Timaeus David Sedley
10. Plato's Laws and Cicero's De Legibus Julia Annas
11. Of Cicero's Plato: fictions, forms, foundations Ingo Gildenhard.
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Editor
Malcolm Schofield, University of Cambridge
Malcolm Schofield is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He is co-author (with G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven) of the second edition of The Presocratic Philosophers (1983) and co-editor (with Keimpe Algra, Jonathan Barnes and Jaap Mansfeld) of The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy (1999). His other publications include An Essay on Anaxagoras (1980), The Stoic Idea of the City (1991; 2nd edition, 1999) and Plato: Political Philosophy (2006).
Contributors
Malcolm Schofield, Myrto Hatzimichali, Riccardo Chiaradonna, Marwan Rashed, Andrea Falcon, Anna Eunyoung Ju, Roberto Polito, A. A. Long, Mauro Bonazzi, David Sedley, Julia Annas, Ingo Gildenhard