Plato's Academy: Its Workings and Its History

ISBN-13: 9781108426442 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 444 str.

Paul Kalligas; Chloe Balla; Effie Baziotopoulou-Valavani

Opis

A comprehensive, interdisciplinary history of Plato's Academy, the most prominent philosophical school in antiquity, which lasted for about 300 years.

Recenzje

'… the volume demonstrates that our understanding of ancient philosophical schools stands to gain from a better awareness of the complexities of their topography and intellectual context.' Myrthe L. Bartels, Metascience

Spis treści

1. Introduction Paul Kalligas; 2. In the shadow of Athena Polias: the divinities of the Academy, polites' training and death in service to Athens Daniela Marchiandi; 3. Observations on the topography of ancient Academia Manolis Panayiotopoulos and Tania Chatziefthimiou; 4. The gymnasium of the Academy and the School of Plato Eutychia Lygouri-Tolia; 5. The Academy in Athenian politics and society – between disintegration and integration: the first eighty years (387/6–306/5) Matthias Haake; 6. Plato in the Academy: some cautious reflections John Glucker; 7. Plato and the mathematics of the Academy Vassilis Karasmanis; 8. Euclid of Alexandria: a child of the Academy? Michalis Sialaros; 9. The study of natural kinds in the Academy István Bodnár; 10. 'Appropriation' of Pythagoreanism in the early Academy: the case of Xenocrates of Chalcedon Phillip Sidney Horky; 11. Polemon, grosser Schatten of the Old Academy John Dillon; 12. One Academy? The transition from Polemo and Crates to Arcesilaus Harrold Tarrant; 13. Carneades' theological arguments David Sedley; 14. The end of the Academy Mauro Bonazzi; 15. The Academy through Epicurean eyes: some lives of Academic Myrto Hatzimichali; Appendix. Index.