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Part II. School Creatures: Literary Competition, Philosophy, and Politics. 5. Preaching and Patronage: The Intellectual and the King

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 close dealings with powerful rulers in the Greek world. Yet our evidence for these episodes shows that it was inevitably… Read more

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Part II. School Creatures: Literary Competition, Philosophy, and Politics. Speusippus’ Letter to Philip

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, is a Magnesian by birth, but he has been writing his Greek History at Athens for some time, and he… Read more

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Part II. School Creatures: Literary Competition, Philosophy, and Politics. 4. Philosophical Politics, Tooth and Nail

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 their often polemical intercourse, across lines of genre and scholastic affiliation, we are presented with an unfamiliar picture of a… Read more

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Part I. Isocrates and Aristotle: An Entanglement. 3. Aristotle in the Afternoon: Rhetoric, Exoterica, and the Compromised Philosopher

Chapter 3. Aristotle in the Afternoon: Rhetoric, Exoterica, and the Compromised Philosopher The surviving Aristotelian corpus, which seems largely to preserve the teachings and discussions conducted by Aristotle within his school, contains multitudes enough for Aristotle’s followers and interpreters. It establishes Aristotle, on the one hand, as the original example of the philosopher who has bequeathed us (inter alia) a system, and any of whose works will… Read more

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Part I. Isocrates and Aristotle: An Entanglement. 2. Plato’s Concession to the Practical Arts in the Phaedrus

Chapter 2. Plato’s Concession to the Practical Arts in the Phaedrus One of the most important threads running through the intellectual history of the fifth and fourth centuries was the multidisciplinary attack on the question of what kind of art or science could hope to master the complexities of human experience. This was a question of theology, of history, of physiology, of politics, of rhetoric, and of… Read more

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Part I. Isocrates and Aristotle: An Entanglement. 1. The Influence of Rhetorical Education on Aristotelian Ethics: Knowledge, Training, and Performance

Chapter 1. The Influence of Rhetorical Education on Aristotelian Ethics: Knowledge, Training, and Performance The Nicomachean Ethics gives an account of a virtuous agent’s formation and practice. To appreciate this text fully, it is natural to want to know as much as possible about all the theoretical and technical discourses and ideas that informed Aristotle’s seminal work. This project of contextualization, while it will always be held… Read more

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Introduction

Introduction αἱ δὲ βίον σοφίῃσιν ἐκόσμεον. And some gave life the ornament of their wise arts. Orphic Catabasis, P. Bon. 4, fol. 3r, line 7 This book is a study of the professional, literary, political, and theoretical links between the school of Isocrates and the schools and careers of recognized philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle. Read more

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Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Anthony A. Long, Giovanni R. F. Ferrari, and Mark Griffith supervised my first work on this topic in Berkeley. I am grateful for their continuing support. That 2003 dissertation did not yet discuss Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Plato’s Phaedrus, the biographical genre, or Isocrates’ Philip (whereas it gave significant attention to the Crito and the Euthyphro), so it was a long process of development that has led… Read more

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Bibliography

Bibliography Sources Classical Authors Ahbel-Rappe, Sara. 2010. Damascius’ Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles. Oxford. Ambaglio, Delfino. 1980. L’opera storiografica di Ellanico di Lesbo: Introduzione, tra-duzione delle testimonianze e dei frammenti, commento storico. Ricerche di Storiografia Antica 2. Pisa. Arnaud-Lindet, Marie-Pierre. 1990. Orose: Histoires (Contre les Païens), vol. 1: Livres I–III. Collection des universités de France. Read more

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Appendix II. Thematic Analysis of Kerdīr’s Inscriptions

Appendix II. Thematic Analysis of Kerdīr’s Inscriptions Theme 1: Naming u-m kunēd nām …… nām kerd hēm Theme 2: In the past, in the future pad ān zamān ōy zamānfrāzdar zamān Theme 3: After death parrōn ō widardān rōn ō widardān rōn Theme 4: Throughout the empire pad dar ud šahr ō šahr, gyāg… Read more