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EXPLORATIONS IN ANCIENT AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY M. F. Burnyeat (–) was a major figure in the study of ancient Greek philosophy during the last decades of the twentieth century and the first of this. After teaching positions in London and Cambridge,wherehebecameLaurenceProfessor,inhetookupa SeniorResearchFellowshipatAllSoulsCollege,Oxford,fromwhichhe retired in . In he published two volumes collecting essays dating from before the move to Oxford. Two new posthumously published volumes bring together essays from his years at All Souls andhisretirement.ThemainbodyofVolumepresentsstudieswritten forawidereadership,firstonPlato’sRepublicandthenonthereading and interpretation of Plato in subsequent periods, particularly in nineteenth-century Britain. The volume also includes hitherto unpub- lished lectures, ‘The Archaeology of Feeling’, on the ancient origins of somekeymodernphilosophicalandpsychologicalconcepts. . . was formerly Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College,Oxford. is a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece () and an associateeditorofPolis.ShepreviouslyworkedwithMylesBurnyeatin thepreparationofThePseudo-PlatonicSeventhLetter(). isEmeritusProfessorofAncientPhilosophy attheUniversityofCambridgeandaFellowofStJohn’sCollege.He was co-editor with Myles Burnyeat and Jonathan Barnes of Doubt andDogmatism(),thefirstvolumeofthepublishedproceedings of a series of triennial conferences on Hellenistic philosophy that continuestothepresent.HismostrecentbookisasurveyofCicero’s political thought (). is Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ’s College. He was an editor of Classical Quarterly and Oxford Studies in AncientPhilosophy.Hisbooksinclude(withA.A.Long)TheHellenistic Philosophers()andCreationismandItsCriticsinAntiquity(). EXPLORATIONS IN ANCIENT AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY M. F. BURNYEAT Prepared for publication by NewnhamCollege,Cambridge UniversityofCambridge UniversityofCambridge UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,thFloor,NewYork,,USA WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,,Australia –,rdFloor,Plot,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–,India PenangRoad,#–/,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/ :./ ©CambridgeUniversityPress Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. –Set----Hardback –Volume----Hardback –Volume----Hardback –Volume----Hardback –Volume----Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Contents List of illustrations page vii Preface ix Acknowledgements x List of abbreviations xii Introduction : Plato on why mathematics is good for the soul Long walk to wisdom The truth of tripartition Plato and the dairy-maids: the distribution of happiness inside and outside the ideal city of the Republic Justice writ large and small in Republic Fathers and sons in Plato’s Republic and Philebus By the Dog Culture and society in Plato’s Republic a Lecture . Couches, song, and civic tradition b Lecture . Art and the menace of mimesis c Lecture . Farewell to Homer and the honeyed muse v vi Contents : Plato James Mill on Thomas Taylor’s Plato: Introduction What was ‘the common arrangement’? An inquiry into John Stuart Mill’s boyhood reading of Plato The past in the present: Plato as educator of nineteenth-century Britain Appendix: The Archaeology of Feeling Ancientfreedoms Angerandrevenge Happinessandtranquillity Otherminds,otherfaces:philosophyandphysiognomics intheancientworld Bibliography Index locorum Illustrations Figure . Construction of an icosahedron. page Figure . Figure . Figure . Figure . Motions of the Same and the Different. Figure . Mars in Sagittarius, /–/: loop dimensions (cid:1) 0 (cid:3) (cid:1) 0. Reproduced from Ido Yavetz, ‘On the Homocentric Spheres of Eudoxus’, Archive for History of Exact Sciences (), –. Figure . Red-figure Attic kylix attributed to the Brygos Painter, circa – , showing a symposium scene. British Museum E = ARV .. © The Trustees of the British Museum. Figure . Red-figure Attic kylix attributed to Douris, circa – : symposium scene showing couches. British Museum E = ARV .. © The Trustees of the British Museum. Figure . Red-figure Attic kylix, dated – : a carpenter at work. British Museum E = ARV .. © The Trustees of the British Museum. Figure . Sample page from Platonis omnia opera (). Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. Figure . Sample page from Divini Platonis opera omnia quae extant (). Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. vii viii Illustrations Figure . Sample page from Platonis philosophi quae exstant Graece ad editionem H. Stephani accurate expressa, cum M. Ficini interpretatione (–). Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. Figure . Page from the Basel edition of the complete works of Plato, showing Timaeus b–c with the heavy use of ligatures (FF..). Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. Figure . Page from the Frankfurt edition of the complete works of Plato, showing Phaedrus a–b (L..). Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. Figure . Page from Volume of the Bipont multi-volume edition of the complete works of Plato, showing Gorgias d–e (.c.). Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. Figure App. . Page from Giambattista della Porta, De humana physiognomonia, , showing human and animal tranquillity. Photo courtesy of Linda Hall Library.
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