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Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag leicht berieben, leichte Randl�ren am Buchr�cken, sonst in sehr gutem Zustand / dust jacket slightly rubbed, slight edge wear on spine, otherwise in very good condition. - Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated - and appropriated - of all ancient thinkers. Already in Antiquity, vigorous controversy over his significance and value ensured a wide range of conflicting representations. He thus became available to the medieval, renaissance and modern worlds in a provocative variety of roles: as paradigmatic philosopher and representative (for good or ill) of ancient philosophical culture in general; as practitioner of a distinctive philosophical method, and a distinctive philosophical lifestyle; as the ostensible originator of startling doctrines about politics and sex; as martyr (the victim of the most extreme of all miscarriages of justice); as possessor of an extraordinary, and extraordinarily significant physical appearance; and as the archetype of the hen-pecked intellectual. To this day, he continues to be the most readily recognized of ancient philosophers, as much in popular as in academic culture. This volume, along with its companion, Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, aims to do full justice to the source material (philosophical, literary, artistic, political), and to the range of interpretative issues it raises. It opens with an Introduction surveying ancient accounts of Socrates, and discussing the origins and current state of the �Socratic question�. This is followed by three sections, covering the Socrates of Antiquity, with perspectives forward to later developments (especially in drama and the visual arts); Socrates from Late Antiquity to medieval times; and Socrates in the Renaissance and Enlightenment. Among topics singled out for special attention are medieval Arabic and Jewish interest in Socrates, and his role in the European Enlightenment as an emblem of moral courage and as the clinching proof of the follies of democracy. / Contents Foreword Judith Herrin, Michael Trapp Contributors List of figures Introduction: questions of Socrates Michael Trapp 1. The comic Socrates Peter Brown 2. Irony in the soul: should Plato�s Socrates be sincere? Mary Margaret McCabe 3. Xenophon�s Socrateses Deborah Levine Gera 4. Beyond Plato and Xenophon: some other ancient Socrateses Michael Trapp 5. The Socratic corpus: Socrates and physiognomy Daniel R. McLean 6. Socrates and his companions in art Joseph Geiger 7. Two images of Sokrates in the art of the Greek east Nikolaos Charalabopoulos 8. Socrates and the early Church Mark Edwards 9. Socrates in Hellenistic and medieval Jewish literature, with special regard to Yehuda Hallevi�s Kuzari Gabriel Danzig 10. The Arabic Socrates: the place of al-Kindi�s report in the tradition Peter Adamson 11. Socrates in the Italian Renaissance James Hankins 12. The refutation of democracy? Socrates in the Enlightenment Ian Macgregor Morris 13. Voltaire�s Socrates Russell Goulboume 14. Bringing the hemlock up: Jacques-Louis David�s Socrates and the inventions of history Valerie Mainz 15. Adamance Coray (Koraes): the literary image of Socrates in the Greek Enlightenment and New Hellenism Nicholas A.E. Kalospyros General bibliography Index. ISBN 9780754641247