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Book SynopsisThis book explores how politeia (constitution) structures both political and extra-political relations throughout the entire range of Greek and Roman thought. Topics include the vocabulary of politics, the practice of politics, the politics of value, and the extension of constitutional order to relations with animals, gods and the cosmos.
Trade Review'… a superbly and flawlessly edited collection that includes a general introduction which discusses the ample connections between Schofield's work and the volume's papers.' Thornton C. Lockwood, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Table of ContentsIntroduction Verity Harte and Melissa Lane; Part I. The Vocabulary of Politics: 1. The political art in Plato's Republic Alexander Long; 2. Putting history in its place: Plato, Thucydides, and the Athenian politeia Cynthia Farrar; 3. Platonizing the Spartan politeia in Plutarch's Lycurgus Melissa Lane; 4. The body politic: Aëtius on Alcmaeon on isonomia and monarchia Jaap Mansfeld; 5. Latin philosophy and Roman law Miriam Griffin; Part II. The Practice of Politics: 6. The Platonic manufacture of ideology, or how to assemble awkward truth and wholesome falsehood Robert Wardy; 7. Plato's politics of ignorance Verity Harte; 8. The political skill of Protagoras Nicholas Denyer; 9. Proclus and politics Jonathan Barnes; Part III. The Politics of Value: 10. Relativism in Plato's Protagoras Catherine Rowett; 11. Justice writ large and small in Republic IV Myles Burnyeat; 12. An aesthetic reading of Aristotle's Ethics Richard Kraut; 13. The Stoic sage in the original position Mary Margaret McCabe; Part IV. Politics Extended: Animals, Gods, Cosmology: 14. Aristotle on the natural sociability, skills and intelligence of animals Geoffrey Lloyd; 15. Gods and men in Xenophanes James Warren; 16. Socrates and his gods: from the Euthyphro to the Eudemian Ethics Christopher Rowe; 17. The atheist underground David Sedley; Malcolm Schofield bibliography, 1970–2012.
