338 Pages
by
Routledge
338 Pages
by
Routledge
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Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated - and appropriated - of all ancient thinkers. Already in Antiquity, vigorous controversy over his significance and value ensured a wide range of conflicting representations. He then became available to the medieval, renaissance and modern worlds in a provocative variety of roles: as paradigmatic... Read more
Contents: Foreword, Judith Herrin, Michael Trapp; Introduction: questions of Socrates, Michael Trapp; The comic Socrates, Peter Brown; Irony in the soul: should Plato's Socrates be sincere? Mary Margaret McCabe; Xenophon's Socrateses, Deborah Levine Gera; Beyond Plato and Xenophon: some other ancient Socrateses, Michael Trapp; The Socratic corpus: Socrates and physiognomy, Daniel R. McLean; Socrates and his companions in art, Joseph Geiger; Two images of Sokrates in the art of the Greek east, Nikolaos Charalabopoulos; Socrates and the early Church, Mark Edwards; Socrates in Hellenistic and medieval Jewish literature, with special regard to Yehuda Hallevi's Kuzari, Gabriel Danzig; The Arabic Socrates: the place of al-Kindi's report in the tradition, Peter Adamson; Socrates in the Italian Renaissance, James Hankins; The refutation of democracy? Socrates in the Enlightenment, Ian Macgregor Morris; Voltaire's Socrates, Russell Goulbourne; Bringing the hemlock up: Jacques-Louis David's Socrates and the inventions of history, Valerie Mainz; Adamance Coray (Koraës): the new literary image of Socrates in the Greek Enlightenment and New Hellenism, Nicholas A.E. Kalospyros; General bibliography; Index.
Biography
Michael Trapp is Professor of Greek Literature and Thought in the Department of Classics, King's College London, UK.
’... cet ouvrage passionnant, enrichi de bibliographies spécialisées après chaque chapitre, d’une bibliographie générale, d’un index et de dix-huit illustrations, contribuera vivement à éclairer un pan fondamental de l’histoire des idées, en soulignant les ambivalences et les paradoxes d’une réception protéiforme.’ Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses
