Plato's Academy
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Plato's Academy

Its Workings and its History

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Plato's Academy

Its Workings and its History

About this book

The Academy was a philosophical school established by Plato that safeguarded the continuity and the evolution of Platonism over a period of about 300 years. Its contribution to the development of Hellenistic philosophical and scientific thinking was decisive, but it also had a major impact on the formation of most of the other philosophical trends emerging during this period. This volume surveys the evidence for the historical and social setting in which the Academy operated, as well as the various shifts in the philosophical outlook of Platonism during its existence. Its contribution to the evolution of special sciences such as mathematics is also examined. The book further includes the first complete annotated translation in English of Philodemus' History of the Academy, preserved on a papyrus from Herculaneum. It thus offers a comprehensive picture of one of the most prominent and influential of all educational institutions in ancient Greece.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Preface
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 In the Shadow of Athena Polias: The Divinities of the Academy,the Training of Politai and Death in Service to Athens
  11. 3 Observations on the Topography of Ancient Academia
  12. 4 The Gymnasium of the Academy and the School of Plato
  13. 5 The Academy in Athenian Politics and Society – Between Disintegration and Integration: The First Eighty Years(387/6–306/5)
  14. 6 Plato in the Academy: Some Cautious Reflections
  15. 7 Plato and the Mathematics of the Academy
  16. 8 Euclid of Alexandria: A Child of the Academy?
  17. 9 The Study of Natural Kinds in the Early Academy
  18. 10 Approaches to the Pythagorean Acusmata in the Early Academy
  19. 11 Polemo, grosser Schatten of the Old Academy
  20. 12 One Academy? The Transition from Polemo and Crates toArcesilaus
  21. 13 Carneades’ Theological Arguments
  22. 14 The End of the Academy
  23. 15 The Academy Through Epicurean Eyes: Some Livesof Academic Philosophers in Philodemus’ Syntaxis
  24. Appendix
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index