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Notes on the Wills of the Peripatetic Scholarchs

Hermes 100 (3):314-342 (1972)

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A New History of Libararies and Books in the Hellenistic Period.S. Johnstone - 2014 - Classical Antiquity 33 (2):347-393.details Discarding the unreliable late evidence for the Library of Alexandria in the Hellenistic period, I establish a new history of libraries and books on more secure primary sources. Beginning in the second century BCE at various places across the eastern Mediterranean, rich, powerful men began to sponsor collections of books. These new public displays of aristocratic and royal munificence so transcended earlier holdings of books—which had been small, vocational, and private—that in an important sense they constitute the invention of the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
The Manumission of Socrates.Alex Dressler, Miguel Herrero De Jäuregui, Deborah Kamen, Leslie Kurke, Michael Mordine & Craig A. Williams - 2013 - Classical Antiquity 32 (1):78-100.details This article argues we can better interpret key aspects of Plato's Phaedo, including Socrates' cryptic final words, if we read the dialogue against the background of Greek manumission. I first discuss modes of manumission in ancient Greece, showing that the frequent participation of healing gods (Apollo, Asklepios, and Sarapis) reveals a conception of manumission as “healing.” I next examine Plato's use of manumission and slavery as metaphors, arguing that Plato uses the language of slavery in two main ways: like real (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
The Manumission of Socrates.Deborah Kamen - 2013 - Classical Antiquity 32 (1):78-100.details This article argues we can better interpret key aspects of Plato's Phaedo, including Socrates' cryptic final words, if we read the dialogue against the background of Greek manumission. I first discuss modes of manumission in ancient Greece, showing that the frequent participation of healing gods (Apollo, Asklepios, and Sarapis) reveals a conception of manumission as “healing.” I next examine Plato's use of manumission and slavery as metaphors, arguing that Plato uses the language of slavery in two main ways: like real (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
The Aristotelian Corpus and the Rhodian Tradition: New Light From Posidonius on the Transmission of Aristotle's Works.Irene Pajón Leyra - 2013 - Classical Quarterly 63 (2):723-733.details The ancient sources tell a particular story about the destiny of the works of Aristotle and Theophrastus after Theophrastus' death. According to information provided mainly by Strabo and Plutarch, the texts produced by the Peripatetic school were lost and unavailable during a period of more than two hundred years, from the time of Neleus, the heir of Theophrastus' library, until Sulla's victory in Athens, in 86b.c., at the end of his campaign against Mithridates. That was the point at which the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
The Aristotelian Corpus and the Rhodian Tradition: New Light From Posidonius on the Transmission of Aristotle's Works.Irene Pajón Leyra - 2013 - Classical Quarterly 63 (2):723-733.details The ancient sources tell a particular story about the destiny of the works of Aristotle and Theophrastus after Theophrastus' death. According to information provided mainly by Strabo and Plutarch, the texts produced by the Peripatetic school were lost and unavailable during a period of more than two hundred years, from the time of Neleus, the heir of Theophrastus' library, until Sulla's victory in Athens, in 86b.c., at the end of his campaign against Mithridates. That was the point at which the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
The regularity of manumission at Rome.Thomas E. J. Wiedemann - 1985 - Classical Quarterly 35 (01):162-.details The institution of slavery has served to perform different functions in different societies. The distinction between ‘closed’ and ‘open’ slavery can be a useful one: in some societies slavery is a mechanism for the permanent exclusion of certain individuals from political and economic privileges, while in others it has served precisely to facilitate the integration of outsiders into the community. ‘The African slave, brought by a foray to the tribe, enjoys, from the beginning, the privileges and name of a child, (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
Partnership of citizens and metics: the will of Epicurus.M. Leiwo & P. Remes - 1999 - Classical Quarterly 49 (01):161-166.details The law of Athens prohibited any but full citizens from owning land or houses. Thus the law also impeded the bequeathing of real property to those who were not citizens. This law seemed to preclude those who were the real backbone of the trading and banking businesses from owning land and, therefore, from lending and borrowing by using it as a security. Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
The regularity of manumission at Rome.Thomas E. J. Wiedemann - 1985 - Classical Quarterly 35 (1):162-175.details The institution of slavery has served to perform different functions in different societies. The distinction between ‘closed’ and ‘open’ slavery can be a useful one: in some societies slavery is a mechanism for the permanent exclusion of certain individuals from political and economic privileges, while in others it has served precisely to facilitate the integration of outsiders into the community. ‘The African slave, brought by a foray to the tribe, enjoys, from the beginning, the privileges and name of a child, (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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