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166Phaedo of Elis and Plato on the SoulPhronesis 49 (1). 1911.Phaedo of Elis was well-known as a writer of Socratic dialogues, and it seems inconceivable that Plato could have been innocent of intertextuality when, excusing himself on the grounds of illness, he made him the narrator of one of his own: the "Phaedo". In fact the psychological model outlined by Socrates in this dialogue converges with the evidence we have (especially from fragments of the Zopyrus) for Phaedo's own beliefs about the soul. Specifically, Phaedo seems to have thought that non-rat…Read more
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71Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition: Ancient Thought and Modern Revisions (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2003.How closely do the theoretical notions of 'metaphor' and 'allegory' developed by ancient rhetoricians reflect the practice of classical writers? This question is tackled through eleven new essays by a team of distinguished academics. Ancient theories of metaphor are compared with twentieth century alternatives; theory is tested against practice; and allegory - a distinctive though neglected feature of ancient literature and philosophy - is explored against the background of the rhetoricians' cla…Read more
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59Eros in government: Zeno and the virtuous cityClassical Quarterly 48 (01): 168-. 1998.According to a report in Athenaeus , the qualities of Erosled the Stoic Zeno to make him the tutelary god of his ideal state:Pontianus said that Zeno of Citium took Eros to be the god of love and freedom, and even the provider of concord, but nothing else. This is why he said in his Republic that Eros was the god who contributed to the safety of the city
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51SCEPTICISM R. J. Hankinson: The Sceptics . Pp. viii + 376. London and New York: Routledge, 1998 (first published 1995). Paper, £17.99. ISBN: 0-415-18446- (review)The Classical Review 50 (01): 155-. 2000.
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46Post-Hellenistic Philosophy: A Study of Its Development from the Stoics to OrigenPhilosophical Review 111 (4): 573-575. 2002.This is a relatively short but important book. Boys-Stones argues for the following : Both Platonists and Christians from the end of the first century A.D. onwards grounded the authority of a doctrine in its antiquity. Christian writers claimed that Christianity is the expression of an ancient wisdom from which both Judaism and pagan philosophy are deviations. Platonists claimed that Plato gave the fullest expression to an ancient wisdom also preserved, though less perfectly, in the supposed wri…Read more
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46Gerson Aristotle and Other Platonists. Pp. xii + 335. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Cased, US$49.95, £27.50. ISBN: 0-8014-4164-1 (review)The Classical Review 56 (1): 61-62. 2006.
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45Sceptical Ethics E. Spinelli: Sesto Empirico: Contro gli Etici. (Elenchos: collana di testi e studi sul pensiero antico, 24.) Pp. 450. Naples: Bibliopolis, 1995. Paper, L. 60,000. ISBN 88-7088-350-7 (review)The Classical Review 47 (02): 292-294. 1997.
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45Adams, Colin, and Ray Laurence, eds. Travel and Geography in the Roman Empire. London: Routledge, 2001. x+ 202 pp. Numerous black-and-white figs. Cloth, $75. Alberti, Ioannes Baptista, ed. Thucydidis Historiae. Vol. 3: Libri VI–VIII. Scriptores Graeci et Latini Consilio Academiae Lynceorum Editi. Rome: Typis (review)American Journal of Philology 123 145-147. 2002.
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38Describing ancient philosophy K. F. Johansen: A history of ancient philosophy: From the beginnings to Augustine . (Trans. H. Rosenmeier.) Pp. XII + 685. London and new York: Routledge, 1998 (first published in danish, 1991). Cased, £85. Isbn: 0-415-12738- (review)The Classical Review 50 (01): 138-. 2000.
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36Review: Plato and Aristotle in Agreement? Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry (review)Mind 116 (464): 1129-1132. 2007.
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35The ethics of the stoic Epictetus A. F. Bonhöffer: The ethics of the stoic Epictetus . (An English translation by W. O. Stephens.) Pp. XIX + 335. New York, etc.: Peter Lang, 1996. Cased, £37. Isbn: 0-8204-3027-7. R. Dobbin: Epictetus : Discourses book 1 . pp. XXIV + 256. Oxford: Clarendon press, 1998. Cased, £37.50. Isbn: 0-19-823664- (review)The Classical Review 50 (01): 154-. 2000.
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35Plutarch against the stoics M. Casevitz, D. babut (edd.): Plutarque: Oeuvres MoraLes. Tome XV, 2 E partie. Traité 72: Sur Les notions communes, contre Les stoïciens. (Collection Des universités de France publiée sous le patronage de l'association Guillaume budé.) Pp. 465. Paris: Les belLes lettres, 2002. Paper, €60. Isbn: 2-251-00507- (review)The Classical Review 54 (02): 338-. 2004.
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31DICAEARCHUS W. W. Fortenbaugh, E. Sch¨trumpf (edd.): Dicaearchus of Messana. Text, Translation, and Discussion . (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities, 10.) Pp. viii + 389. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 2001. Cased, £58.95. ISBN: 0-7658-0093- (review)The Classical Review 53 (01): 62-. 2003.
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30Plato and Hesiod (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2009.A collection of essays exploring the relationship between Plato and the poet Hesiod. The volume covers a wide variety of thematic angles, brings new and sometimes surprising light to a large range of Platonic dialogues, and represents a major contribution to the study of the reception of archaic poetry in Athens.
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27Review. Sesto Empiricio: Contro Gli Etici. E SpinelliThe Classical Review 47 (2): 292-294. 1997.
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25The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347¿274 B.C.) (Book)American Journal of Philology 125 (3): 459-462. 2004.
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24II—Lost Memory and Contested Recollection: A Response to Professor AdamsonAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 93 (1): 185-202. 2019.A debate between Proclus and Damascius over whether intellect ‘remembers’ the forms in contemplating them is explained by Professor Adamson as a disagreement over the nature of memory looking back to Plato and Aristotle. But I argue that it is rather symptomatic of a disagreement stretching back through Plotinus to Middle Platonism over the nature of the intellect. This gives the debate its urgency; and it coheres better with the fact that, Plato and Aristotle aside, there is vanishingly little …Read more
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24Post-Hellenistic philosophy: a study of its development from the Stoics to OrigenOxford University Press. 2001.This book traces, for the first time, a revolution in philosophy which took place during the early centuries of our era. It reconstructs the philosophical basis of the Stoics' theory that fragments of an ancient and divine wisdom could be reconstructed from mythological traditions, and shows that Platonism was founded on an argument that Plato had himself achieved a full reconstruction of this wisdom, and that subsequent philosophies had only regressed once again in their attempts to "improve" o…Read more
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22Die Philosophie der Antike, vol. 4: Die hellenistische Philosophie (review)The Classical Review 47 (1): 212-212. 1997.
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19Plutarch on the probable principle of cold: epistemology and the De Primo Frigido1Classical Quarterly 47 (01): 227-. 1997.The de primo frigido has long been recognized as an important text for our understanding of Plutarch′s epistemological position. It is the aim of this paper to show, however, that the sophistication of the work, and with it of Plutarch′s epistemology, is not generally given the credit due to it
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History of Western Philosophy |
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History of Western Philosophy |