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Philosophia Togata II : Plato and Aristotle at Rome, Paperback / softback Book

Philosophia Togata II : Plato and Aristotle at Rome Paperback / softback

Edited by Jonathan (Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Ge Barnes, Miriam (Tutorial Fellow in Ancient History, Tutorial Fellow in Ancient History, Somerville Griffin

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The role of philosophy as a valued and effective part of the culture of civilized Romans has aroused an increasing amount of scholarly interest in recent years.

In this volume, which gathers together nine papers delivered at a series of seminars on philosophy and Roman society in the University of Oxford, scholars of classical literature, Roman history, and ancient philosophy investigate the place of Platonism and Aristotelianism in Roman intellectual, cultural, and political life from the second century BC to the third century AD.

In addition to chapters on such important figures as Cicero, Varro, Plutarch, Favorinus, Celsus, and Porphyry, the book contains essays on the tradition of Aristotle's library at Rome, the theory of the mixed constitution, and the anonymous commentary on Plato's Theaetetus.

It thus forms a complement to Philosophia Togata I which addressed the importance of the doctrines of the Hellenistic schools to Roman society during the first century BC.

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