Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 In the Shadow of Athena Polias: The Divinities of the Academy, the Training of Politai and Death in Service to Athens
- 3 Observations on the Topography of Ancient Academia
- 4 The Gymnasium of the Academy and the School of Plato
- 5 The Academy in Athenian Politics and Society – Between Disintegration and Integration: The First Eighty Years (387/6–306/5)
- 6 Plato in the Academy: Some Cautious Reflections
- 7 Plato and the Mathematics of the Academy
- 8 Euclid of Alexandria: A Child of the Academy?
- 9 The Study of Natural Kinds in the Early Academy
- 10 Approaches to the Pythagorean Acusmata in the Early Academy
- 11 Polemo, grosser Schatten of the Old Academy
- 12 One Academy? The Transition from Polemo and Crates to Arcesilaus
- 13 Carneades’ Theological Arguments
- 14 The End of the Academy
- 15 The Academy Through Epicurean Eyes: Some Lives of Academic Philosophers in Philodemus’ Syntaxis
- Appendix Philodemus’ History of the Philosophers: Plato and the Academy (PHerc. 1021 and 164)
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 In the Shadow of Athena Polias: The Divinities of the Academy, the Training of Politai and Death in Service to Athens
- 3 Observations on the Topography of Ancient Academia
- 4 The Gymnasium of the Academy and the School of Plato
- 5 The Academy in Athenian Politics and Society – Between Disintegration and Integration: The First Eighty Years (387/6–306/5)
- 6 Plato in the Academy: Some Cautious Reflections
- 7 Plato and the Mathematics of the Academy
- 8 Euclid of Alexandria: A Child of the Academy?
- 9 The Study of Natural Kinds in the Early Academy
- 10 Approaches to the Pythagorean Acusmata in the Early Academy
- 11 Polemo, grosser Schatten of the Old Academy
- 12 One Academy? The Transition from Polemo and Crates to Arcesilaus
- 13 Carneades’ Theological Arguments
- 14 The End of the Academy
- 15 The Academy Through Epicurean Eyes: Some Lives of Academic Philosophers in Philodemus’ Syntaxis
- Appendix Philodemus’ History of the Philosophers: Plato and the Academy (PHerc. 1021 and 164)
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
![Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'](https://static.cambridge.org/content/id/urn%3Acambridge.org%3Aid%3Abook%3A9781108554664/resource/name/firstPage-9781108426442pre_i-iv.jpg)
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Plato's AcademyIts Workings and its History, pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020