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Title

The passionate intellect : the transformation of classical traditions / edited by William W. Fortenbaugh and Lewis Ayres.

Publication

New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Fortenbaugh, William W.
• Ayres, Lewis.

Description

xvi, 376 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• Ian Kidd, of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, has long been known as a world-class scholar of ancient philosophy and of Posidonius, in particular. Through his long struggle with the fragments of Posidonius, Kidd has done more than any other scholar of ancient philosophy to dispel the myth of "Pan-Posidonianism." He has presented a clearer picture of the Posidonius to whom we may have access.
• The bulk of this volume is built around the theme of Kidd's own inaugural lecture at St. Andrews, "The Passionate Intellect." Many of the contributions follow this theme through by examining how individual people and texts influenced the direction of various traditions.
• Many of the papers naturally concentrate on ancient philosophy and its legacy. Others deal with ancient literary theory, history, poetry, and drama. Most of the papers deal with their subjects at some length and are significant contributions in their own right.

Series Statement

Rutgers University studies in classical humanities ; v. 7

Uniform Title

Rutgers University studies in classical humanities ; v. 7.

Subject

• Civilization, Classical
• Classical literature > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Bibliography of I.G. Kidd -- The Greeks and the Passionate Intellect / Ian Kidd -- 1. Poetic Rhythms in the Myth of the Soul / Kenneth J. Dover -- 2. Plato, Imagination and Romanticism / S. Halliwell -- 3. Tradition and Innovation in the Transformation of Socrates' Divine Sign / Mark Joyal -- 4. [actual symbol not reproducible] in Plato's Cratylus / David B. Robinson -- 5. Counting Plato's Principles / R. W. Sharples -- 6. Pindar and the Victory Ode / Chris Carey -- 7. Euripides: Ion and Phoenissae / Elizabeth M. Craik -- 8. The Roman Mind and the Power of Fiction / J. S. Richardson -- 9. Did Thucydides Write for Readers or Hearers? / Shigetake Yaginuma -- 10. Aenesidemus versus Pyrrho: Il fuoco scalda "per natura" (Sextus M. VIII 215 e XI 69) / Fernanda Decleva Caizzi -- 11. Theophrastus, no. 84 FHS&G: There's Nothing New Here! / William W. Fortenbaugh -- 12. Alexandria, Syene, Meroe: Symmetry in Eratosthenes' Measurement of the World / A. S. Gratwick --
• 13. Seneca's Natural Questions - Changing Readerships / Harry M. Hine -- 14. Crates of Mallos, Dionysius Thrax and the Tradition of Stoic Grammatical Theory / Richard Janko -- 15. Aenesidemus and the Academics / Jaap Mansfeld -- 16. The Pathology of Ps.-Hippocrates, On Ancient Medicine / Robin Waterfield -- 17. The Discipline of Self-knowledge in Augustine's De trinitate Book X / Lewis Ayres -- 18. Melanchthon's First Manual on Rhetorical Categories in Criticism of the Bible / C. J. Classen -- 19. "A Kind of Warmth": Some Reflections on the Concept of "Grace" in the Neoplatonic Tradition / John Dillon -- 20. Ausonius at Prayer / R. P. H. Green -- 21. The Philosophy of the Codification of Law in Fifth Century Constantinople and Victorian Edinburgh / Jill Harries.

ISBN

1560002107

LCCN

95009847

OCLC

• 503371233
• ocn503371233
• SCSB-14298829

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries