1: Gillian Clark and Tessa Rajak: Introduction: Philosophy and
Power
I. Philosophy and the State2: Lesley Brown: Did Socrates agree to
obey the laws of Athens?
3: Martha Nussbaum: The Worth of Human Dignity: Two Tensions in
Stoic Cosmpolitanism
4: Jill Harries: Cicero and the Defining of the Ius Civile
5: Fergus Millar: Government and Law: Ulpian, a Philosopher in
Politics?
II. The Power of Philosophy6: Malcolm Schofield: Academic Therapy:
Philo of Larissa and Cicero's Project in the Tusculans
7: Mary Beagon: Beyond Comparison: M. Sergius, fortunae victor
8: Barbara Levick: Women, Power, and Philosophy at Rome and
Beyond
9: Glen Bowersock: Philosophy in the Second Sophistic
III. Power10: Zvi Yavetz: Cicero: A Man of Letters - in
Politics
11: David Wardle: Deus or Divus: The Genesis of Roman Terminology
for Deified Emperors and a Philosopher's Contribution
12: Hannah Cotton and Alexander Yakobson: Arcanum imperii: The
Powers of Augustus
13: Werner Eck: An Emperor is Made: Senatorial Politics and
Trajan's Adoption by Nerva in 97
IV. Philosophy of Religion14: Loveday Alexander: 'Foolishness to
the Greeks': Jews and Christians in the Public Life of the
Empire
15: Margaret Atkins: Old Philosophy and New Power: Cicero in
fifth-century North Africa
16: Polymnia Athanassiadi: Philosophy and power: The Creation of
Orthodoxy in Neoplatonism
17: Jonathan Barnes: Ancient Philosophers
Gillian Clark is Professor of Ancient History, University of Bristol Tessa Rajak is Reader in Classics, University of Reading
... delightful ... cannot fail to interest and impress ... there is much for anyone interested in the exercise of power in the Greco-Roman world. This is an elegant volume and a worthy presentation to a distinguished and sympathetic teacher and scholar. JACT Review The ultimate shape of this fine collection,...eschews the canonical for a range of new questions and neglected texts. C. E. W. Steel
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