Chapter 4. Philosophical Politics, Tooth and Nail An Introduction to Philosophical Polemics What to the ostentatious smuggling verbalists are the thoughts of thinkers but Loose-Fish? Herman Melville, Moby-Dick When we study the generation of Plato and Isocrates’ students, and… Read more
Speusippus’ Letter to Philip Epistula Socratica 30 Hercher, ed. Bickermann and Sykutris 1928 A complete translation of this text is offered here, since frequent reference will be made to it in the following chapter. [1] Antipater, the bearer of this letter,… Read more
Chapter 5. Preaching and Patronage: The Intellectual and the King Do the encounters of fourth-century intellectuals with the field of political power require us to change the terms of our analysis from “scholastic politics” to politics simpliciter? Plato, Aristotle, Isocrates, and numerous other Academics and Isocrateans had… Read more
Conclusion: Isocrateanism in the Renaissance The controversies and contests of the Isocratean period left their mark, directly and indirectly, on later European culture. In the immediate, Hellenistic, wake of this period, we may well wonder whether the names “Isocrates,” “Plato,” and “Aristotle” still carried with them traces… Read more
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Acknowledgements The following study is to some extent the result of a long interest in ancient leadership and the emotions. Thus I owe a debt of gratitude to many more friends and mentors than I have space to mention here, including to Dick Gerberding, who converted me… Read more
Introduction [In this on-line version, the page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{69|70}” indicates where p. 69 of the printed version ends and p. 70 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need to look up references… Read more
Chapter 1. Philanthrôpia and Philotîmia as Reciprocal Fondness I begin this study of Cyrus’ three superlative character traits with an early and seemingly simple passage in the Cyropaedia. Xenophon describes how the twelve-year-old Cyrus wins over his Medan contemporaries (hêlikotai), then their fathers, and then his grandfather,… Read more
Chapter 2. Curiosity, Aptitude, and Intense Awareness As we have seen, Cyrus’ philanthrôpia and philotîmia are intimately connected. How does Cyrus’ philomatheia (love of learning) fit in? Our investigation will entail a survey of Xenophon’s treatments of learning elsewhere, especially in the Oeconomicus, Memorabilia, and Anabasis, but… Read more
Chapter 3. On the Fundamentality of Philanthrôpia, Philomatheia, and Philotîmia To determine the fundamentality of Cyrus’ superlative love of humanity, learning, and being honored, I mean to ask the following: to what extent are these three traits either the cause of other leadership traits or the foundation… Read more
