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Author:   Daniel Markovich
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   16
Weight:   0.699kg
ISBN:  

9789004467231

ISBN 10:   9004467238
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   28 October 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1 Introduction: A New Way of Living 1 From Socratic Protreptic to Philosophical Protreptic 2 Philosophical Protreptic as a Form of Deliberation 3 Reading Philosophical Protreptic 2 Entering the Dialogue: Socrates and the Socratic Authors 1 Aeschines of Sphettos 2 Plato 3 Xenophon 4 Conclusions 3 Philosophy as Theoretical Observation: Aristotle's Protreptic 1 The Reconstruction of Aristotle's Protreptic 2 The Content of Aristotle's Protreptic 3 Aristotle's Dialogue with Plato 4 Aristotle and Isocrates 5 Aristotle and His Audiences 6 Conclusions 4 Philosophy as Therapy: Hellenistic Authors 1 Expanding the Audience 2 Epicurus: Happiness for Everyone 3 Early and Middle Stoic Authors 4 The New Academy: Philo of Larissa 5 Middle Platonism: Eudorus of Alexandria 6 Conclusions 5 Philosophy and Politics: Roman Paideia 1 Greek Philosophy in Rome 2 Lucretius: A View from Above 3 Cicero: Platonic Politics 4 Seneca: A Fellow Convalescent 5 Conclusions 6 Socrates in Rome: Greek Authors of the Empire 1 Being a Philosopher in the Period of the Second Sophistic 2 Musonius Rufus: Lucius's Socrates 3 Epictetus: Arrian's Socrates 4 Dio of Prusa: Socrates in Exile 5 Lucian of Samosata: Protreptic under a Comic and Satirical Mask 6 Excursus: Exhortations to Medicine and to Christianity 7 Conclusions 7 The Unity of Philosophy Reclaimed: Neoplatonism 1 Neoplatonic Tendencies 2 Iamblichus: A Protreptic Anthology 3 Themistius: Philosophy and Rhetoric Reconciled 4 Boethius: A Protreptic to Himself 5 Conclusions Conclusions 1 Typical Arguments 2 The Protreptic Worldview and The Philosophy of Education 3 Rhetorical Strategies 4 Rhetorical Goals 5 Philosophical Protreptic and Other Types of Philosophical Literature Epilogue Appendix: Examples of Philosophical Protreptic Editions, Commentaries, and Translations Secondary Bibliography Indices

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Daniel Markovich, Ph.D. in Classical Philology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2006), is an Associate Professor in Classics at the University of Cincinnati. He has published on Greco-Roman rhetorical theory, Roman Epicureanism (including a monograph on The Rhetoric of Explanation in Lucretius' De rerum natura, Brill 2008), and Roman reception of Empedocles.

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