Kyriakos Demetriou

Series: Brill's Companion to Classical Reception
Editor Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Companion's editors: Ingrid D. Rowland and Sinclair W. Bell

As a master of his discipline, the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius has been read widely for centuries. This collection of essays by an international team of experts investigates his influence and reception in ideas, artistic forms, and building practices from antiquity to modern day. The stories of influence told in these pages suggest that it is the unbridgeable gulf between the Vitruvian text and surviving monuments that makes reading the Ten Books so endlessly compelling. The contributors to this volume offer their own, original readings, which are organized into the five sections: transmission; translation; reception; practice; and Vitruvian topics.

Brill’s Companions in Ancient Philosophy is a series of handbooks that offers a graduate-level synthesis of debates and the state of scholarship on key authors and topics in Ancient Philosophy. The series aims to provide scholars and students with a comprehensive and accessible resource that synthesizes the latest research and scholarship in the field.

We invite proposals for new volumes in the series from scholars of Ancient Philosophy. We seek contributions that offer a fresh and insightful perspective on key figures and topics in Ancient Philosophy, and that are accessible to a wide audience of scholars and students.

Proposals should be well-developed and demonstrate a clear understanding of the goals and scope of the series. We encourage proposals that cover a broad range of themes, including but not limited to:

Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy
Pre-Socratic philosophy
Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy
Ethics and moral philosophy
Metaphysics and epistemology
Logic and reasoning
Proposals should include a brief summary of the proposed volume, a table of contents, a list of contributors (if applicable), and a timeline for completion. Proposals should be submitted to the series editor for review.

Brill’s Companion to Classical Reception and Modern World Poetry explores the relations between antiquity and modernity from the angle of the reception of Graeco-Roman antiquity in modern world poetry. In an innovative combination of the fields of Classical Reception and World Literature, it tackles ever-challenging questions which are central to both fields, such as the questions of literature and identity, specificity and universality, Eurocentrism, poetics and translation. Leading experts from both Classics and Modern Languages contribute 11 chapters on modern poetry and poets from different linguistic and cultural traditions from around the world.

Call for Submissions: The History of Classical Reception

We invite submissions on the history of classical reception (Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception"), aimed at scholars and students interested in the ways in which classical works and ideas have been received, adapted, and reinterpreted throughout history.

We welcome submissions on a wide range of topics related to the reception of classical works and ideas, including but not limited to:

The reception of classical literature in later periods
The influence of classical art and architecture on later periods
The reception of classical political thought and philosophy
The role of classical religion and mythology in later periods
The reception of classical scholarship and its impact on intellectual thought

We are particularly interested in submissions that focus on the reception of classical works and ideas in specific historical periods or cultural contexts, or that offer a comparative perspective on the reception of classical works and ideas in different regions or disciplines.


All submissions will be subject to a peer-review process.

To submit a proposal or for further information, please contact the editor at k.demetriou@ucy.ac.cy

George Grote's (1794-1871) extensive publications on ancient Greek history and philosophy remain landmarks in the history of classical scholarship. Since the late 20thcentury, lively interest in the works of Grote has seen his pro le revived and his ongoing signi cance highlighted: he has taken up his rightful place among the most celebrated nineteenth-century classical intellectuals. Grote's critical engagement with Greek historiography and philosophy revolutionized classical studies in his day-a revolution set against both long-established interpretations and prevailing trends in German Altertumswissenschaft. Twenty-rst-century scholarship shows that Grote's works remain lively, sparkling and relevant, as they o fers valuable insights that cut across the intellectual borders of the Victorian age. His diligent scholarship, fascination with evidence and sound judgement, intertwined with intriguing and insightful narrative prose, continue to captivate the attention of modern readers. In Brill's Companion to George Grote and the Classical Tradition Kyriakos N. Demetriou leads a team of prominent scholars to contextualize, unravel and explore Grote's works as well as... See More Readership All interested in Classical Reception Studies, history of classical scholarship, 19th-century intellectual history, political thought, and Victorian philosophy, ethics and politics.

William M. Calder III
"This is the most informative book I have read on George Grote, England's second greatest ancient historian, since Mrs Grote's life of her husband (1873). For the first time Grote is placed firmly into the intellectual milieu of his time ... Demetriou is not obsessed with finding where Grote made mistakes. He reads Grote's "History of Greece" and "Plato" as documents moulded by the political thought of their time. His analysis of Greek history and Platonic studies in England before Grote reveals Grote's enormous contribution. For moderns Greek history begins with Grote, as Roman with Mommsen. Anything earlier is ignored. We underestimate his contribution because ignorant of what came before. Demetriou by emphasising Grote's predecessors makes his achievement clear. A comprehensive up to date bibliography and an index of names conclude the volume." Religious Studies, 2000.

ABSTRACT
George Grote (1794-1871) belonged to the leading Philosophic Radicals of early Victorian Britain. A student of James Mill and Jeremy Bentham, a self-educated classical scholar, and a committed utilitarian liberal, he succeeded in revolutionizing the field of Greek studies. The author draws on both unpublished works of Grote and also a wide range of published material, with emphasis on the 'History of Greece' and 'Plato and the other Companions of Sokrates', to give us this study of the historian's thought and understanding of classical Greece. The book starts with an examination of Grote's early intellectual influences and then proceeds to an extensive critical exploration of the reception of Athens and Plato in pre-Grotean historiography and classical scholarship. Grote's monumental work completely reversed the traditional antidemocratic approach to the history of Greece, rehabilitated the Sophists and the demagogues after centuries of derision, examined in detail the working of Athenian democracy and the merits of political participation, and demonstrated that Plato's desire was to stimulate philosophical thinking in his audience, rather than establishing a system of dogmatic solutions to moral and metaphysical problems. At the time, Grote's original works formed an encyclopedia of classical studies and a major contribution to the history of political thought. His enduring significance in our own time is foremost the result of his profound and vast scholarship, but it also proves that ancient Greek history and theory can be still understood in the light of today's values and used as a resource for contemporary political reflection.

REVIEWS

Professor George Huxley, Review of Kyriacos N. Demetriou, “George Grote on Plato and Athenian Democracy”, Ελληνικά 51.2, 2001, pp. 415-418.
Stuart Dawson, Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought 17 (1-2):187-198 (2000)

This collection of essays focuses on the reception of Plato and Greek political thought in the work of some major (pre)Victorian classical scholars and expands on a remarkable range of hotly debated issues on the interpretation of Greek antiquity. The central figure in this volume is the radical philosopher, utilitarian, and Platonist George Grote, whose works on the history of Greece and Plato moved away from traditional models of classical interpretation. His works and their background are critically explored in light of his philosophical commitment and political radicalism. Article IV brings to light a forgotten manuscript by Grote, "On the Character of Socrates," produced in the 1820s. Grote sought to counter the current literature on ancient Greece and its predominant motifs, which is here examined in its own right along with an independent study on Bishop Connop Thirlwall's influential History of Greece. The second half of this volume is devoted to analyzing important aspects of the revival of Platonic studies in the ideological and discursive context of early and middle Victorian times. This collection of essays presents comprehensive and illuminating contextual analyses of nineteenth-century works on classical reception, providing simultaneously a rich bibliographic guide to further research.

Reviews (Victorian Studies)
'Demetriou’s essays provide a most useful and nuanced guide to the understanding of the reception and uses made of Plato, Platonisms and Greek History in 19th century Britain... This volume provides an excellent overview of Plato and the Greeks in Victorian Britain, with close attention to detail, especially in light of the still prevalent preponderance of clichés about Plato and Platonism... This is a most useful collection.' International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 'Demetriou [...] portrays not only the contributions made by Grote to Platonic studies in the nineteenth century but also the changing landscape of Platonic interpretation across the whole of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth... indeed the most valuable feature of this volume is the author’s analysis of Victorian Platonism and the central role played by Grote’s Plato in the shaping of this tradition.' Victorian Studies

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric
Series:
Brill's Companions to Classical Reception, Volume: 23
Volume Editors: Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim, and Michael Edwards
This volume, examining the reception of ancient rhetoric, aims to demonstrate that the past is always part of the present: in the ways in which decisions about crucial political, social and economic matters have been made historically; or in organic interaction with literature, philosophy and culture at the core of the foundation principles of Western thought and values. Analysis is meant to cover the broadest possible spectrum of considerations that focus on the totality of rhetorical species (i.e. forensic, deliberative and epideictic) as they are applied to diversified topics (including, but not limited to, language, science, religion, literature, theatre and other cultural processes (e.g. athletics), politics and leadership, pedagogy and gender studies) and cross-cultural, geographical and temporal contexts. See Less
Copyright Year: 2022

Series Editor: Kyriakos N. Demetriou
BCCR is the only series dedicated to publishing "Companions to Classical Reception". Since its inception in 2012 more than 25 volumes have appeared, and some are in the pipeline for publication. All titles go through a rigorous double peer-review process. For any proposal or information about the series please contact Kyriakos Demetriou, k.demetriou@ucy.ac.cy


Volumes in the series deal with subjects related to the broad field of Classical reception including, but not limited to reception of art, literature, architecture, history, religion, political thought, and intellectual thought (including volumes on influential Classical scholars and the history of classical scholarship) in later centuries and in various scholarly disciplines. The Series will show a systematic coverage of subjects. Written by the foremost specialists in the respective fields, they aim to provide full-balanced accounts at an advanced level, as well as synthesis of debate and the state of scholarship.

Volume Editors: Maya Feile Tomes, Adam J. Goldwyn, and Matthew Duquès

Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas illuminates the remarkable range of Greco-Roman classical receptions across the western hemisphere from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth century. Bringing together fifteen essays by scholars working at the intersection of Classics and all aspects of Americanist studies, this unique collection examines how Hispanophone, Lusophone, Anglophone, Francophone, and/or Indigenous individuals engaged with Greco-Roman literary cultures and materials. By coming at the matter from a multilingual transhemispheric perspective, it disrupts prevailing accounts of classical reception in the Americas which have typically privileged North over South, Anglophone over non-Anglophone, and the cultural production of hegemonic groups over that of more marginalized others. Instead it offers a fresh account of how Greco-Roman literatures and ideas were in play from Canada to the Southern Cone to the Caribbean, treating classical reception in the early Americas as a dynamic, polyvocal phenomenon which is truly transhemispheric in reach.

Σε αυτό το βιβλιο παρουσιάζονται πέντε εμβληματικές μορφές του νεότερου πολιτικού στοχασμού (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau). Επιχειρείται μια κριτική ανασύνθεση των ιδεών τους, λαμβάνοντας υπόψη το έργο τους σφαιρικά, δίχως ν' απομονώνονται στο ερευνητικό μικροσκόπιο αποκλειστικά τα κλασικά πολιτικά τους έργα. Η πνευματική τους παρακαταθήκη, στην οποία συμπεριλαμβάνονται τα λογοτεχνικά, ιστοριογραφικά και γνωσιοθεωρητικα τους κείμενα, διαπλέκεται άρρηκτα με την πολιτική τους φιλοσοφία και φωτίζει λιγότερο γνωστές πτυχές της κοσμοθεωρίας τους. Το μεθοδολογικό ερμηνευτικό εγχείρημα αποδίδει μια σειρά από αντισυμβατικές θεωρήσεις, διανοίγει νέα ερευνητικά πεδία, εγείρει δυσεπίλυτα ερωτήματα και αναδεικνύει την ανάγκη για περαιτέρω κριτικό αναστοχασμό. Απευθύνεται στους σπουδαστές της πολιτικής επιστήμης και φιλοσοφίας, μελετητές της ιστορίας των ιδεών αλλά και στον αμύητο αναγνώστη που αναζητεί πλήρη, προσιτή και συνοπτική γνώση της νεότερης πολιτικής σκέψης.

Editor: Christina-Panagiota Manolea
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Homer from the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the Homeric corpus. Twenty chapters written by a range of experts in the field show how Homeric poems were transmitted, disseminated, adopted, analysed, admired or even criticized across diverse intellectual environments, from the 3rd century BCE to the 6th century CE. The volume explores the impact of Homer on Hellenistic prose and poetry, the Second Sophistic, the Stoics, some Christian writers and the major Neoplatonists, showing how the Greek paideia continued to flourish in new contexts.

For six centuries, Plato has held German philosophy in his grip. Brill’s Companion to German Platonism examines how German thinkers have interpreted Plato and how in turn he has decisively influenced their thought. Under the editorship of Alan Kim, this companion gathers the work of scholars from four continents, writing on figures from Cusanus and Leibniz to Husserl and Heidegger. Taken together, their contributions reveal a characteristic pattern of “transcendental” interpretations of the mind’s relation to the Platonic Forms. In addition, the volume examines the importance that the dialogue form itself has assumed since the nineteenth century, with essays on Schleiermacher, the Tübingen School, and Gadamer. Brill’s Companion to German Platonism presents both Plato and his German interpreters in a fascinating new light.

Series:

    Brill's Companions to Classical Reception, Volume: 17

Editors: Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Barbara Zipser
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the corpus of the second-century AD Greek physician Galen of Pergamum. In 31 chapters, written by a range of experts in the field, it shows how Galen was adopted, adapted, admired, contested, and criticised across diverse intellectual environments and geographical regions, from Late Antiquity to the present day, and from Europe to North Africa, the Middle and the Far East.
The volume offers both introductory material and new analysis on the transmission and dissemination of Galen’s works and ideas through translations into Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and other languages, the impact of Galenic thought on medical practice, as well as his influence in non-medical contexts, including philosophy and alchemy.

Από το οπισθόφυλλο
Σπονδυλωτή ανάδρομη αφήγηση σε τριάντα τρεις ενότητες. Μνημονικές αναπαραστάσεις εναγώνιας ενδοσκόπησης και αυτό-εξιστόρησης, μέσα από τις οποίες αποκαλύπτονται τα μυστικά και τα τραγικά γεγονότα που οδήγησαν τον πρωταγωνιστή σε μια αλλοτριωμένη ύπαρξη. Ο Λέναρντ Μάισνερ, ο ίδιος πλέον αντιμέτωπος με τον θάνατο και τη θνητότητα, καλείται ν’ αναλάβει τις ευθύνες του.

ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ
Μεταξὺ τῶν ὡρῶν 2  καὶ 5  μετὰ μεσημβρία, ὁ
πρωταγωνιστὴς ἀνακαλύπτει μιὰ εὐφάνταστη
διέξοδο ἀπὸ τὸν παράδοξο ἐγκλεισμό του.

Ο Κυριάκος Δημητρίου και ο γερο-γκρινιάρης Σοπενχάουερ - Παρουσίαση από την Λίλια Τσούβα
https://www.culturebook.gr/kritiki-parousiasi/o-kyriakos-dimitriou-kai-o-gero-griniaris-sopenchaouer-parousiasi-apo-tin-lilia-tsouva.html?fbclid=IwAR3LjfPeA2a18MNM-d2poGI79UFJ-5KNrQQ0P2qit8z4IMXmbSAP1Wo01oY

«Ξέρετε τι σήμαινε για μένα αυτό το καλοκαίρι; Αδιάκοπο ενθουσιασμό για τον Σοπενχάουερ και μια σειρά πνευματικών απολαύσεων που δεν τις είχα ζήσει μέχρι τότε. Δεν ξέρω εάν κάποτε θα αλλάξω γνώμη, τώρα όμως είμαι πεπεισμένος ότι ο Σοπενχάουερ είναι ο πιο μεγαλοφυής από όλους τους ανθρώπους».

  Αυτά έγραφε ο Λέων Τολστόι, τον Αύγουστο του 1869. Είχε ενθουσιαστεί από τη φιλοσοφία του Γερμανού φιλοσόφου Σοπενχάουερ (Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860). Και δεν είναι ο μόνος. Ανάμεσα στους θαυμαστές του, ο Νίτσε, ο Βάγκνερ, ο Βιτγκενστάιν, ο Αϊνστάιν, ο Φρόυντ, ο Μπόρχες.

  Ο συγγραφέας Κυριάκος Δημητρίου έλκεται από το βιβλίο του Γερμανού φιλοσόφου Ο κόσμος ως βούληση και παράσταση. Στη νουβέλα του 2-5 μετά μεσημβρία (εκδόσεις Σμίλη) ασχολείται με προβληματισμούς που θέτει ο φιλόσοφος. Τα γεγονότα εκτίθενται από την μεριά ενός πρωτοπρόσωπου αφηγητή, παρουσιάζουν εστίαση εσωτερική, ενώ η πλοκή και η αφήγηση καταγράφονται με τρόπο ώστε να φανεί η βασική φιλοσοφική τοποθέτηση του Σοπενχάουερ πως ο κόσμος ως προϊόν έλλογου δημιουργικού σχεδιασμού, ως τάξη και κάλλος δηλαδή, δεν υπάρχει.

  Ο συγγραφέας Κυριάκος Δημητρίου -και καθηγητής της ιστορίας των ιδεών στο Πανεπιστήμιο της Κύπρου- πετυχαίνει να αποδώσει λογοτεχνικά τις φιλοσοφικές του θεωρίες, εντάσσοντάς τες με τρόπο ευφυή σε πλαίσιο μυθοπλαστικό. Στη νουβέλα 2-5 μετά μεσημβρία, εγκιβωτίζει μια ιστορία που άκουσε ο ήρωας, που ωστόσο είναι η ιστορία που έζησε ο ίδιος. Με τον τρόπο αυτόν καταφέρνει να δείξει πως ο κόσμος δεν είναι παρά η παράστασή μας, όπως πίστευε ο Σοπενχάουερ. Παρά το φιλοσοφικό της περιεχόμενο, η νουβέλα δεν γίνεται βαρετή ούτε στιγμή. Παρουσιάζει ανανεούμενο σασπένς και ενδιαφέρον για τον αναγνώστη.
Ο ήρωας Κ. ζει σε χώρα του βορρά. Έχει μόρφωση υψηλού επιπέδου, γράφει φιλοσοφικά άρθρα και τον απασχολούν θέματα οντολογικής φύσεως. Πώς γνωρίζουμε ότι τα πράγματα υπάρχουν αληθινά; Πώς μπορούμε να ξέρουμε ότι αυτό που ονομάζουμε «φυσικός κόσμος» δεν είναι απλές εικόνες της νόησης, εντυπώσεις, οπτικές αναπαραστάσεις που οφείλονται στην αντανάκλαση του φωτός στα μάτια μας, ή ακόμα ότι δεν προέρχεται από το περιεχόμενο της φαντασίας ή των φαντασιώσεών μας; (σελ. 14)

  Οι απογευματινές ώρες 2-5 είναι ο χωροχρόνος της απόλυτης μοναξιάς, δίχως τη δυσάρεστη παρουσία των ανθρώπων, όπου ξαναβρίσκει τον εαυτό του, ανασυγκροτεί τα κομμάτια του, τις ώρες όπου οι ένοικοι απουσιάζουν, δεν ακούς το παραμικρό, το πολύ πολύ καμιά αράχνη να περπατά αμέριμνη στον τοίχο και να παίζει βιολί με τον ιστό της.

  Ο Κυριάκος Δημητρίου στη νουβέλα 2-5 μετά μεσημβρία παίζει με την πραγματικότητα και τη μη πραγματικότητα, προκειμένου να φανεί ότι το πραγματικό είναι τεχνητό, πως ό, τι συμβαίνει είναι πλάνη, αποκύημα της φαντασίας μας. Ασχολείται με τα κυριότερα σύγχρονα και διαχρονικά φιλοσοφικά ζητήματα: την ανθρώπινη βούληση και ελευθερία, τον χρόνο, τον θάνατο, τη μνήμη, το αίτιο και το αιτιατό. Σύμφωνα με τον Σοπενχάουερ, αποτελεί πλάνη πως η ανθρώπινη βούληση είναι ελεύθερη. Η ανθρώπινη ελευθερία δεν αίρεται, αλλά μετατοπίζεται στο υπερβατολογικό πεδίο του νοητού χαρακτήρα.[i]

  Ήμουνα δεσμώτης, όπως στο σπήλαιο του Πλάτωνα, ακριβώς έτσι, αλυσοδεμένος μέσα στα τείχη της πόλης, συμπιεσμένος μέσα στις χειρονομίες και τις νεκρές εικόνες που είχαν μια αδιάτρητη συνοχή (σελ. 53).

  Ο πρωταγωνιστής της νουβέλας του Δημητρίου, όπως ο Βλαντιμίρ και ο Εστραγκόν στο έργο του Μπέκετ «Περιμένοντας τον Γκοντό», εισέρχεται σε μια κατάσταση αφόρητης στατικότητας. Διερευνώντας τις αντινομίες της ανθρώπινης ύπαρξης, βρίσκεται ανάμεσα στη λογική και την τρέλα. Ο μετεωρισμός ανάμεσα στην αλήθεια και το ψέμα της ύπαρξης, η αβεβαιότητα, η μεταφυσική αγωνία, τον οδηγούν στη νοσταλγία για τη χαμένη πληρότητα του παρελθόντος. Αναζητά στον Μεσαίωνα έναν ολοκληρωτικό λόγο φιλοσοφίας και θρησκείας. Η επανάληψη της δράσης τονίζει αφενός την κοινοτοπία των καταστάσεων. Αφετέρου πλέκει ένα κλειστοφοβικό κλίμα, όπου η δράση αναμετριέται συνεχώς με τη στασιμότητα, ενώ η μνήμη καταδεικνύει την αδυναμία της να συλλάβει τον χρόνο. Η κατάσταση δεν φαίνεται να οδηγεί σε λύτρωση, επισημαίνοντας την εσωτερική μας εντροπία.

  Το μέλλον δεν είναι ακόμα εδώ, κύριε, ίσως τα καταφέρω, τα πάντα μπορούν να συμβούν, όλα είναι πιθανά, μέχρι να αποδειχθεί πως είναι παντελώς απίθανα!

  Παράλληλα στο έργο παρατηρούνται φιλοσοφικές επιρροές από τον Πλάτωνα, την ινδική φιλοσοφία και την υπερπραγματικότητα του Μπωντριγιάρ. Οι λογοτεχνικές επιδράσεις αφορούν τον μοντερνισμό και τους καλλιτέχνες της πρωτοπορίας, κυρίως τον υπερρεαλισμό και το θέατρο του παραλόγου. Εμφανείς οι επιδράσεις από τον Μπέκετ, τον Μπρετόν, τον Αραγκόν αλλά και από τον Τικ και τον ρομαντισμό. Ο γερο-γκρινιάρης Σοπενχάουερ, ο πλατωνικός ιδεότυπος και το Νιρβάνα.

  Η ιστορία επανάληψης που στήνεται στη νουβέλα αποτελεί λογοτεχνική αποτύπωση του ζητήματος των αισθήσεων και των ψευδαισθήσεων, της αλήθειας και του ψεύδους, της βούλησης και της υποκειμενικότητας.

  Υπάρχει μία ρευστότητα μέσα στην ίδια την ημέρα. Η σούπα όμως παραμένει η ίδια, ή ίδια στυφή γεύση, τα ίδια υλικά, ζεστή και κρύα, δεν έχει ουσιώδη σημασία. Είναι μια επανάληψη της ίδιας παράστασης, μια ας πούμε «αναπαράσταση», συνεχείς αναπαραστάσεις –αλήθεια δεν είναι η ζωή ένα θέατρο κι εμείς οι ηθοποιοί που ενσυνείδητα υποδυόμαστε ρόλους; (σελ. 11)

  […] οι αισθήσεις απατούν, το πικρό είναι γλυκό για μένα και ημίπικρο για σένα, εγώ βλέπω στο κυπαρίσσι έναν σκούρο πράσινο όγκο κι εσύ βλέπεις ένα ξεθωριασμένο κιτρινοπράσινο δέντρο που υψώνεται σαν φλόγα στον φράκτη μια σκιά στο γρασίδι σ' εμένα φαίνεται από μακριά σαν μαύρο φίδι και σ' εσένα σαν ίσκιος κλαδιού -φαύλος κύκλος, στο τέλος παραμένει η αίσθηση πως ο νους μας είναι το μόνο πράγμα που υπάρχει (σελ. 15-16).

  Ο συγγραφέας Κυριάκος Δημητρίου επεξεργάζεται τις νευρώσεις του αστικού υποκειμένου και δημιουργεί ένα ψυχογράφημά του ένα ον στατικό, ανώνυμο και ανήμπορο, με τον έρωτα μια ιδεαλιστική αυταπάτη. Η αποκάλυψη του τέλους ωστόσο, ανατρεπτική και ευοίωνη, έρχεται να εκφράσει την πίστη στη σκέψη, στην περισυλλογή και την αυτογνωσία.

  Από τις μεγαλύτερες αρετές του βιβλίου είναι οι δυνατές του περιγραφές. Ο συγγραφέας Κυριάκος Δημητρίου στη νουβέλα 2-5 μετά μεσημβρία παίζει με τα χρώματα και το φως, σαν ιμπρεσιονιστής ζωγράφος. Στήνει τις θεατρικές του σκηνές, σαν θεατρικός συγγραφέας και καταφέρνει να δημιουργήσει ένα κλίμα υποβλητικό, γεμάτο μυστήριο, με περιγραφές που θυμίζουν Κάφκα και μεγάλους λογοτέχνες της πρωτοπορίας.



Κυριάκος Δημητρίου, 2-5 μετά μεσημβρία, Εκδόσεις Σμίλη



Βιβλιογραφία

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 2016. Περί της ελευθερίας της βούλησης, μετάφραση Μιχάλη Παντούλια και Δημήτρη Υφαντή, Ροές.

[i] Schopenhauer 2016,Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου (ελαφρώς διασκευασμένη).

Submission information: brill.com/authors Brill's Companions to Classical Reception Volumes in the series deal with subjects pertaining to the broad eld of Classical reception including, but not limited to reception of art, literature, architecture, history, religion, political thought, and intellectual thought (including volumes on influential Classical scholars and the history of classical scholarship) in later centuries and in various scholarly disciplines. The Series will show a systematic coverage of subjects. Written by the foremost specialists in the respective fields, they aim to provide full-balanced accounts at an advanced level, as well as synthesis of debate and the state of scholarship.

Editor:
Kenneth Royce Moore
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great
offers a considerable
range of topics, of interest to students and academics alike, in the long
tradition of this subject’s significant impact, across a sometimes surprising
and comprehensive variety of areas. Arguably no other historical figure has
cast such a long shadow for so long a time. Every civilisation touched by the
Macedonian Conqueror, along with many more that he never imagined, has
scrambled to “own” some part of his legacy. This volume canvasses a
comprehensive array of these receptions, beginning from Alexander’s own
era and journeying up to the present, in order to come to grips with the
impact left by this influential but elusive figure.

Series:

    Brill's Companions to Classical Reception, Volume: 15

Editor: Robert C Simms
The epics of ancient Greece and Rome are unique in that many went unfinished, or if they were finished, remained open to further narration that was beyond the power, interest, or sometimes the life-span of the poet. Such incompleteness inaugurated a tradition of continuance and closure in their reception. Brill’s Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic explores this long tradition of continuing epics through sequels, prequels, retellings and spin-offs. This collection of essays brings together several noted scholars working in a variety of fields to trace the persistence of this literary effort from their earliest instantiations in the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer to the contemporary novels of Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood.

A new issue of POLIS is available now. Contents:

Positive Freedom and the Citizen in Athens. Author: Naomi T. Campa

Atimia and Outlawry in Archaic and Classical Greece. Author: Christopher Joyce

The Madness of Cambyses: Herodotus and the Problem of Inquiry. Author: Lindsay Mahon Rathnam

πέφυκεν πλεονεκτεῖν? Plato and the Sophists on Greed and Savage Humanity. Author: Chloe Balla

The Law in Plato’s Laws: A Reading of the ‘Classical Thesis’. Author: Luke William Hunt

Polybius’ Interpretation of Plato’s Arcadian Tale: Platonic Influences on Polybius’ Histories. Author: William Devon Burghart

Plato’s Minos and the Euthyphro. Author: Alex Priou

Philosophical Genesis: The Three Waves and the City-Soul Analogy in Republic V. Authors: Charlotte C.S. Thomas and Kevin S. Honeycutt

Political Implications of Ancient Platonism in Rabelais’s Tiers Livre. Author: Timothy Haglund

Just Published: Brill's Companion to Classics and Early Anthropology, edited by Emily Varto

This book explores key points of interaction between classics and anthropology from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Ancient Greece and Rome played varying roles in early anthropological thinking, from the observations of colonial officials and missionaries, through the ethnography and evolutionary ethnology of the late nineteenth century, and into the professionalized social sciences of the twentieth century.

Edited by Harold Tarrant, University of Newcastle Australia, Danielle A. Layne, Gonzaga University, Dirk Baltzly, University of Tasmania and Monash University, and François Renaud, Université de Moncton

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity offers a comprehensive account of the ways in which ancient readers responded to Plato, as philosopher, as author, and more generally as a central figure in the intellectual heritage of Classical Greece, from his death in the fourth century BCE until the Platonist and Aristotelian commentators in the sixth century CE. The volume is divided into three sections: ‘Early Developments in Reception’ (four chapters); ‘Early Imperial Reception’ (nine chapters); and ‘Early Christianity and Late Antique Platonism’ (eighteen chapters). Sectional introductions cover matters of importance that could not easily be covered in dedicated chapters. The book demonstrates the great variety of approaches to and interpretations of Plato among even his most dedicated ancient readers, offering some salutary lessons for his modern readers too.

Edited by Helen Roche, Cambridge University and Kyriakos Demetriou, University of Cyprus

The first ever guide to the manifold uses and reinterpretations of the classical tradition in Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany, Brill’s Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany explores how political propaganda manipulated and reinvented the legacy of ancient Greece and Rome in order to create consensus and historical legitimation for the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships.
The memory of the past is a powerful tool to justify policy and create consensus, and, under the Fascist and Nazi regimes, the legacy of classical antiquity was often evoked to promote thorough transformations of Italian and German culture, society, and even landscape. At the same time, the classical past was constantly recreated to fit the ideology of each regime.

Since 1978 Polis: the Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought has published groundbreaking scholarship on classical Greek political thought, its history, and its later reception. The journal's Editorial Board would like to inform the academic community about some important developments in the structure, coverage and organization of the journal. First, as of 2018, Brill will increase the frequency of Polis from two issues to three issues annually. This will offer authors the opportunity to publish their work in a distinguished journal in a timely fashion; furthermore, the additional issue will allow Polis to publish more book reviews for a field of scholarship that has experienced a robust growth over the last few decades. Second, Polis will broaden its research domain to include articles on all aspects of Hellenistic and Roman political thought and their subsequent reception. Recent decades of scholarship have demonstrated that the Greek polis and civic political thought, far from dying at Chaironeia, remained vibrant in the centuries after Alexander, both preserving traditional features and developing in new directions. Polis will now provide a forum for debate about citizenship and civic ideals across the Hellenistic world. The new scope of the journal will also encourage studies, not only of the Greek polis across its history, but also of the different political structures and theories of both the Hellenistic dynasties and the Roman civitas. The continuities and differences between all three forms of political institution offer fruitful opportunities for inquiry, both within each historical period, comparatively, and in relation to the reception of those institutions in subsequent historical periods. Our goal is to make Polis a preeminent source for theoretical, historical, and reception-orientated scholarship on both Greek and Roman political institutions and thinkers. Third, in conjunction with these important developments, three new associate editors have joined the editorial board: Carol Atack will oversee submissions on Greek political thought, Benjamin Gray will oversee submissions on Hellenistic political thought, and Daniel Kapust will oversee submissions on Roman political thought. Examples of Polis' published scholarship can be found at the journal's website (www.brill.com/agpt). The editorial board looks forward to publishing groundbreaking scholarship and book reviews not only on the polis, which gave birth to concepts such as democracy and tyranny, but also on the civitas, which both developed and offered novel alternatives of political organization to the polis. The scholarly field of Greek and Roman political thought has reached a level of sophistication and academic seriousness that calls for a journal commensurate with the academic promise of that field's scholars. Polis takes these major editorial steps in order that it become the preeminent source of publication for this exciting and growing research domain. Yours sincerely, with best wishes

http://www.brill.com/products/series/brills-companions-classical-reception#related-files Brill Companions to Classical Reception [BCCR] is designed to explore varying aspects in the history of classical reception as well as the life and work of eminent classical scholars in an all-inclusive and comprehensive way. The Series' aim is to provide Reference works for Classical Reception Studies, i.e. authoritative overviews of themes in classical reception by individual scholars within their area of specialization. Thus scholars actively engaged across the whole spectrum of classical studies and intellectual historians, as well as those working on sub-disciplines of classical studies are expected to jointly engage in well-defined projects serving the objectives and scope of BCCR.

Edited by Philip Walsh, Washington College

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes provides a substantive account of the reception of Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BC) from Antiquity to the present. Aristophanes was the renowned master of Old Attic Comedy, a dramatic genre defined by its topical satire, high poetry, frank speech, and obscenity. Since their initial production in classical Athens, his comedies have fascinated, inspired, and repelled critics, readers, translators, and performers. The book includes seventeen chapters that explore the ways in which the plays of Aristophanes have been understood, appropriated, adapted, translated, taught, and staged. Careful attention has been given to critical moments of reception across temporal, linguistic, cultural, and national boundaries.

Edited by William H.F. Altman
(Series: Brill's Companion to Classical Reception, founding and overseeing editor, K. Demetriou)

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Cicero is a collection of essays by an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars that situates Cicero in the context of his use and abuse from antiquity to the present, and is intended to provide readers with several good reasons to return to the study of Cicero's writings with greater interest and respect.

Edited by Jessica Priestley and Vasiliki Zali, University of Liverpool

(Series: Brill's Companion to Classical Reception, founding and overseeing editor, K. Demetriou)

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond offers new insights on the reception and cultural transmission of one of the most controversial and influential texts to have survived from Classical Antiquity. Herodotus’ Histories has been adopted, adapted, imitated, contested, admired and criticized across diverse genres, historical periods, and geographical boundaries. This companion, edited by Jessica Priestley and Vasiliki Zali, examines the reception of Herodotus in a range of cultural contexts, from the fifth century BC to the twentieth century AD. The essays consider key topics such as Herodotus' place in the Western historiographical tradition, translation of and scholarly engagement with the Histories, and the use of the Histories as a model for describing and interpreting cultural and geographical material.

Edited by Andrea Falcon, Concordia University, Montreal

(Series: Brill's Companion to Classical Reception, founding and overseeing editor, K. Demetriou)

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristotle provides a systematic yet accessible account of the reception of Aristotle’s philosophy in Antiquity. To date, there has been no comprehensive attempt to explain this complex phenomenon. This volume fills this lacuna by offering broad coverage of the subject from Hellenistic times to the sixth century AD. It is laid out chronologically and the 23 articles are divided into three sections: I. The Hellenistic Reception of Aristotle; II. The Post-Hellenistic Engagement with Aristotle; III. Aristotle in Late Antiquity. Topics include Aristotle and the Stoa, Andronicus of Rhodes and the construction of the Aristotelian corpus, the return to Aristotle in the first century BC, the role of Alexander of Aphrodisias and Porphyry in the transmission of Aristotle's philosophy to Late Antiquity.

REVIEW (Abstract follows):
"These original essays by distinguished scholars derive their common focus from the political thought of antiquity but embrace both ancient and modern thought from Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle to Machiavelli, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Burke, and Max Weber (among others). The notion of scientific statesmanship brings together the idea of science or philosophy with that of practical politics and raises for the serious student of political thought important questions concerning the nature of the human condition itself."—Frederick Rosen, University College London, UK

Over the centuries, the question of "good" or "effective" governance has undergone several transformations and ramifications to fit within certain social, cultural and historical contexts. What defines political knowledge? What is the measure of expert political leadership? Various interpretations, perspectives, and re-conceptualizations emerge as one moves from Plato to the present.

This edited book explores the relationship between political expertise, which is defined as "scientific statesmanship or governance," and political leadership throughout the history of ideas. An outstanding group of experts study and analyze the ideas of significant philosophers, such as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Kant, Burke, Comte, and Weber, among others. The contributors aim to interpret these thinkers’ approaches to "scientific statesmanship," deepening our understanding of the idea itself and decoding its theoretical complexities.

In the face of the ongoing crisis of the traditional party system and the eroding structures within the new cultural-financial and political environment in the era of globalization, tracing the connection between Plato’s idealist statesmanship to twentieth-century modernist politics is an important and ever-challenging enterprise; one that promises to interest scholars of the history of western political thought, philosophy, classics and the classical tradition, political science, and sociology.

Selected Contents: Introduction Kyriakos N. Demetriou And Antis Loizides 1. The Platonic Moment: Political Transpositions Of Power, Reason, And Ethics John R. Wallach 2. Political Knowledge And Human Excellence In Aristotelian Political Science Ryan Balot 3. Cicero On Expertise In Governance Walter Nicgorski 4. Political Wisdom And The City Of God: St. Augustine Of Hippo Miles Hollingworth 5. Bringing Morality Down To Earth: Machiavelli’s Contribution To Scientific Statesmanship Joseph V. Femia 6. Hobbes And The Science Of Metaphor Victoria Kahn 7. Montesquieu And The Paradoxes Of The Art Of Statesmanship Rebecca Kingston 8. Kant And The Moral Politicians Paul Guyer 9. Adam Ferguson On Human Nature And Enlightened Governance Alexander Broadie 10. The American Founders’ New Science Of Politics Terence Ball 11. Edmund Burke, The "Science Of Man," And Statesmanship Daniel O’neill 12. Scientific Socialism: The Case Of Robert Owen David Leopold 13. Alexis De Tocqueville On Science, Statesmanship And Political Philosophy Aristide Tessitore 14. The Rule Of Sociological Method: Auguste Comte’s Positive Politics Before The Système De Politique Positive Vincent Guillin 15. Science And Partisanship In Max Weber—A Problematic Distinction Or A Means Of Restraining Professorial Authority?

Floyer Sydenham (1710–1787), the eminent British Platonist, has been unduly neglected in the interpretative historiography of the modern Platonic tradition. Amid a climate of indifference, he set out to offer the first English translation of the Platonic dialogues, begging for subscriptions that never materialized. He died in debtors’ prison on April 1, 1787. Between 1759 and 1780 he managed to translate nine dialogues and included a large number of explanatory notes and linguistic emendations to the existing texts. Set in the context of the intellectual and discursive tradition of the era, Sydenham’s Platonism served to establish Lord Shaftesbury’s teleological views of human nature and moral rationalism against empiricism and moral egoism. The association of Platonism with Shaftesbury’s theories led to a number of interpretative novelties, such as the rejection of Neoplatonism as the inheritance of Plato, the disconnection of Platonism with Christianity, and a new approach to the dialogues as dramatic and theatrical compositions. Sydenham’s Platonic scholarship has been blurred by its being misleadingly associated with the general project of the eccentric Neoplatonist Thomas Taylor, whose first English translation of the entire Corpus Platonicum (5 vols, London 1804) bears, almost inappropriately, Sydenham’s name.

The democratic deficit of the European Union is a long-standing contentious issue. Reasons were attributed to the hybrid nature of the EU, the opacity and complexity of its decision-making process, as well as the lack of “true” European political parties, a poorly developed system of representative accountability, and the absence of a genuine European public sphere. The European institutions tried to bridge the gap by developing an original model of governance involving new actors and procedures in decision-making process. The aim of the paper is to analyze how the economic crisis affected the democratic deficit of the EU and its model of governance. The hypothesis is that the governance instruments invented by the EU to solve the economic crisis produced a double suspension of democracy. On the one side, the European governance gave excessive power to private actors and unelected bodies, thus undermining the role of European representative institutions; on the other side, the power of supranational unelected bodies eroded the democratic accountability of national governments and parliaments. To verify such assumption, the work will focus on the role played by the European Central Bank in the Italian economic crisis. Grounding on official reports and positions by the ECB and media sources in the period 2010-12, the EU Crisis/ Springer/K. Demetriou 4 paper will thoroughly describe and analyze how the Bank imposed its own solution to the crisis, and the consequences it produced for European and national democracy. Diego Giannone is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Sciences “Jean Monnet” of the Second University of Naples (Italy), where he is also Adjunct Professor of “Geo-political Relations”. His main themes and research interests include: the measurement of democracy, European Union democracy and governance, neoliberalism and institutional changes. His publications include: “Political and Ideological Aspects in the Measurement of Democracy: the Freedom House Case”, Democratization, 17(1), 2010: 68-97; La democrazia neoliberista. Concetto, Misure, Trasformazioni (Milan: Franco Angeli, 2010) [Neoliberal Democracy. Concept, Measurement, and Transformations]; and ‘Measuring ICT: Political and Methodological Aspects’, in Electronic Constitution: Social, Cultural and Political Implications, ed. Francesco Amoretti (Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009), 189-206. Chapter 3 Pushing the Union forward? The role of the European Parliament in the Union crisis Fernanda Neutel, Department of Political Science and International RelationsUniversity Lusofona, Lisbon, Portugal Since its inception in 1951, the European Union project has faced frequent crises but it has always found appropriate solutions. Institutions have played a pivotal role. The European Parliament has been a centripetal and centrifugal player, creating synergies to enhance its powers and pushing the Union forward. In fact, nowadays, the European Parliament is doubtless a co-legislator in most policy areas with the Council. It has legislative, budget and control powers, but it can also exert control using consultation procedures, own-initiative reports, and written declarations. Throughout times it has used these possibilities to intervene in most varied issues. During the present crisis, it has done so several times. This essay proposes to analyze the attempts or solutions the European Parliament put forward in the present crisis management. For that, most important documents will be under scrutiny like own initiative proposals, written or oral questions, budget proposals, voting decisions, Commission and Council speeches and eurogroup interventions. Questionnaires to MEPs will also be considered. The assumption is that the left-right dimension of party politics will be central for the clarification of this question, but, if so, the European Parliament is like any other Parliament. Underlying the arguments, there will be the suggestion that politics are the solution, not the anathema, for the present crisis solution. But the Union policies should be reassessed. Fernanda Neutel holds a PhD from Leeds University – United Kingdomin Political Science/ European Studies and a Master degree in Modern International Studies from the same University. She is a lecturer in the Department of Politics and International RelationsUniversity LusofonaLisbon (Portugal) since 1998. From October 2011 to July 2012 she was deputy director for the BA degree in European Studies and International Relations with former Portuguese minister for foreign affairs Dr. Medeiros Ferreira and, from July 2012 to January 2013, she was course director. She has also EU Crisis/ Springer/K. Demetriou 5 been responsible for several Master courses, PhD courses and first degree courses where she teaches modules related to European Integration, Politics and Policies of the European Union, The Political System of the European Union, European History, and International…

"The first idea for this guide sprung from an investigation into the reception of modern Greece by Victorian classical scholars, i.e., their understanding, first, of the political affairs relating to the Revolution of 1821, and, second, of the major constitutional, civil, and cultural changes that took place during the nineteenth century. Examining the lists of contents of the numerous monthly Victorian periodicals soon led to the realization that there existed a remarkable record of review articles and contributions on Greece with a full range of opinion on major contemporary issues, such as politics, education, travel, religion, culture, and historiography. The importance of this record can hardly be exaggerated. While presenting aspects of Victorian life—primarily its political and commercial values, but also its intellectual and moral anxieties— this record is above all a picture of Greece as viewed through the eyes of a variety of authors, whether philhellenes, utilitarians, classicists, politicians, or even strong-minded advocates of the Ottoman Empire."

Volume 1 The debate over Grote's "History of Greece" introductory essay (35 pp), c. 375 pp. Volume 2 The debate over Grote's "History of Greece" (continued), with an appendix c. 380 pp. Volume 3 The reception of Grote's philosophical works c. 365 pp. Volume 4 Reception of Grote in America and biographical essays, introductory note c. 300 pp.

Volume 1 The debate over Grote's "History of Greece" introductory essay (35 pp), c. 375 pp. Volume 2 The debate over Grote's "History of Greece" (continued), with an appendix c. 380 pp. Volume 3 The reception of Grote's philosophical works c. 365 pp. Volume 4 Reception of Grote in America and biographical essays, introductory note c. 300 pp.

In 1821 George Grote wrote a lengthy manuscript essay entitled “On the Athenian Government,” in which he asserted that the short treatise On the Athenian Constitution (which he attributes to Xenophon) “proves incontestably that the Athenian Government was the best at that time existing in Greece.”1 Grote quite ingeniously tried to deduce from a hostile witness evidence in favour of Athenian democracy as compared to the constitution the author of this treatise would have preferred to see operating.2 At that time Grote was 27 years old, that is only two years after he met James Mill who changed his political convictions and his philosophical outlook forever. From that year onwards Grote was devoted to writing a pamphlet on “Parliamentary Reform” (1821), an “Essay on Magick,”3 an essay on “Natural Religion” (1822),4 and an article entitled “Institutions of Ancient Greece” for the Westminster Review (1826) - his formal debut in Greek historiography.5 The elder Mill had a profound influence on Grote, directing the powers of this admirable polymath in the service of the utilitarian cause for political reform and moral enlightenment along with a large group of enthusiasts and activists who addressed an inveterate scepticism towards all the institutions, norms and practices of organized society.

Volume 1 The debate over Grote's "History of Greece" introductory essay (35 pp), c. 375 pp. Volume 2 The debate over Grote's "History of Greece" (continued), with an appendix c. 380 pp. Volume 3 The reception of Grote's philosophical works c. 365 pp. Volume 4 Reception of Grote in America and biographical essays, introductory note c. 300 pp.

Selected Contents: Introduction Kyriakos N. Demetriou And Antis Loizides 1. The Platonic Moment: Political Transpositions Of Power, Reason, And Ethics John R. Wallach 2. Political Knowledge And Human Excellence In Aristotelian Political Science Ryan Balot 3. Cicero On Expertise In Governance Walter Nicgorski 4. Political Wisdom And The City Of God: St. Augustine Of Hippo Miles Hollingworth 5. Bringing Morality Down To Earth: Machiavelli's Contribution To Scientific Statesmanship Joseph V. Femia 6. Hobbes And The Science Of Metaphor Victoria Kahn 7. Montesquieu And The Paradoxes Of The Art Of Statesmanship Rebecca Kingston 8. Kant And The Moral Politicians Paul Guyer 9. Adam Ferguson On Human Nature And Enlightened Governance Alexander Broadie 10. The American Founders' New Science Of Politics Terence Ball 11. Edmund Burke, The "Science Of Man," And Statesmanship Daniel O'neill 12. Scientific Socialism: The Case Of Robert Owen David Leopold 13. Alexis De Tocqueville On Science, Statesmanship And Political Philosophy Aristide Tessitore 14. The Rule Of Sociological Method: Auguste Comte's Positive Politics Before The Systeme De Politique Positive Vincent Guillin 15. Science And Partisanship In Max Weber-A Problematic Distinction Or A Means Of Restraining Professorial Authority?

Preface Abbreviations 1. Introduction Kyriakos N. Demetriou and Antis Loizides 2. The Philosophy of Error and Liberty of Thought: J.S. Mill on Logical Fallacies Frederick Rosen 3. J.S. Mill, Romantics' Socrates, and the Public Role of the Intellectual Nadia Urbinati 4. The Socratic Origins of J. S. Mill's 'Art of Life' Antis Loizides 5. Mill's Greek Ideal of Individuality Jonathan Riley 6. Uncelebrated Trouble Maker: J.S. Mill as English Radicalism's Foreign Politics Gadfly Georgios Varouxakis 7. The Philosopher in the Agora Alan Ryan 8. The Spirit of Athens: George Grote and John Stuart Mill on Classical Republicanism Kyriakos N. Demetriou 9. Three Visions of Liberty: John Stuart Mill, Isaiah Berlin, Quentin Skinner Giovanni Giorgini 10. Mill through Rawls Gregoris Molivas Notes on Contributors Index

Brill’s Companions in Ancient Philosophy is a leading series of handbooks providing graduate-level synthesis of debate and the state of scholarship on key authors and topics in Ancient Philosophy.

Call for Submissions: Brill's Companions in Ancient Philosophy


Our series covers a wide range of topics, including but not limited to metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, epistemology, logic, and aesthetics. Our aim is to provide in-depth coverage of the works and ideas of the most important thinkers of the ancient world, including Plato, Aristotle, the Presocratics, the Stoics, and the Epicureans, among others.

We welcome proposals for new volumes on any aspect of ancient philosophy, from studies of individual philosophers to examinations of broader themes and movements within the field. We are particularly interested in proposals that approach ancient philosophy from interdisciplinary perspectives or that engage with contemporary debates and issues.

Our handbooks are designed to be accessible to graduate students and scholars who are new to the field, while also providing valuable insights and contributions to established experts. We encourage submissions that engage with current debates and incorporate the latest research in the field.

If you are interested in contributing to our series, please submit a proposal of no more than 1,000 words outlining your proposed topic, the approach you will take, and the significance of your contribution to the field. Proposals should be accompanied by a brief curriculum vitae.

Please send your proposals at k.demetriou@ucy.ac.cy

The aim of this paper is to examine Hobbes's translation of Thucydides in the post-renaissance philological context and show that it surpasses other existing texts in its syntactical and morphological adherence to the original Greek text. Through this examination, Thomas Hobbes's understudied Greek scholarship will shine in crystal clear clarity. Furthermore, it is proposed that the similarities between the two authors stem primarily from their shared viewpoint on political matters and human psychology, rather than from Thucydides having a decisive impact on Hobbes.

The journal Polis is expanding its page count, research domain, and editorial staff. Scholars who work on any aspects of ancient Greek and Roman political thought (or their subsequent historical reception) should consider submitting their work to Polis.

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the corpus of the second-century AD Greek physician Galen of Pergamum. In 31 chapters, written by a range of experts in the field, it shows how Galen was adopted, adapted, admired, contested, and criticised across diverse intellectual environments and geographical regions, from Late Antiquity to the present day, and from Europe to North Africa, the Middle and the Far East.
The volume offers both introductory material and new analysis on the transmission and dissemination of Galen’s works and ideas through translations into Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and other languages, the impact of Galenic thought on medical practice, as well as his influence in non-medical contexts, including philosophy and alchemy.

Edited by Rebecca Futo Kennedy Denison University
(Series Editor, Kyriakos Demetriou)

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus explores the various ways Aeschylus’ tragedies have been discussed, parodied, translated, revisioned, adapted, and integrated into other works over the course of the last 2500 years. Immensely popular while alive, Aeschylus’ reception begins in his own lifetime. And, while he has not been the most reproduced of the three Attic tragedians on the stage since then, his receptions have transcended genre and crossed to nearly every continent. While still engaging with Aeschylus’ theatrical reception, the volume also explores Aeschylus off the stage--in radio, the classroom, television, political theory, philosophy, science fiction and beyond.

"""Brill Companions to Classical Reception [BCCR] is designed to explore varying aspects in the history of classical reception in an all-inclusive and comprehensive way. The Series’ aim is to provide Reference works for Classical Reception Studies, i.e. authoritative overviews of themes in classical reception by individual scholars within their area of specialization. Thus scholars actively engaged across the whole spectrum of classical studies and intellectual historians, as well as those working on sub-disciplines of classical studies are expected to jointly engage in well-defined projects serving the objectives and scope of BCCR.


Thematic Coverage: Areas/Strands in the Series

BCCR’ structure and sc0pe revolve basically around five major topical areas and each “Companion” is expected to fall under one of the distinctly identifiable categories:

(a) Literature/Historiography
(b) Philosophy/Intellectual History
(c) History of Classical Scholarship (i.e. individual scholars/schools of thought/movements)
(d) Science and Medicine/Art & Architecture
(e) Ancient Figures


BCCR is so designed as to address a bibliographical need, in terms of (a) providing “Companions” to neglected, un-neglected or under-developed fields or areas of studies related to the history of classical reception/appropriation, (b) offering full documentation and analytical accounts of eminent classicists and their influences, and (b) suggesting theoretical frameworks and areas for further research on the history of classical studies.


BCCR is intended to serve an international audience of non-specialists as well as specialists by providing accessible and yet highly professional, concise and systematic accounts of themes as categorized above (Greek or Roman). More specifically, BCCR is designed for specialist and non-specialist scholars and graduate, or otherwise advanced students in classics, working on a wide range of classical studies, intellectual historians, philosophers, political theorists, cultural historians and the general reader.
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A neglected phase in the interpretative reception of Plato is the revival of Platonism that occurred during the Scottish Enlightenment. This paper aims to chart research paths that would fill the Scottish gap in the historiography of Platonic tradition mainly through an introductory analysis of texts that were directly engaged in presenting Plato to an Anglophone readership (in the form of either translations or general commentaries). The purpose of this study is primarily expository and contextualising, and only incidentally ‘analytical’. It revolves around the thesis that eighteenth-century Scottish literati invoked Plato’s moral philosophy, rhetoric and metaphysics, with an eye towards developing critical responses to current philosophical debates. Their understanding of Plato began to progressively infuse a rich current of thought which was not antagonistic to the body of Enlightenment ideas but on some occasions complemented it in richly unanticipated ways. Scottish Platonism is in many respects a neglected component of the Scottish Enlightenment, in terms of presenting a version of Plato heavily infused with Lord Shaftesbury and Francis Hutcheson’s moral and aesthetic theories.

This is not an abstract, but an impressive passage from Sophocles.
"What should a man fear? It’s all chance, chance rules our lives. Not a man on earth can see a day ahead, groping through the dark. Better to live at random, best we can. "
Sophocles, Jocasta at Oedipus at Colonus

Call for editors, Companion to the Reception of Sappho
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Series Editor: Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Volumes in the series deal with subjects pertaining to the broad field of Classical reception including, but not limited to reception of art, literature, architecture, history, religion, political thought, and intellectual thought (including volumes on influential Classical scholars and the history of classical scholarship) in later centuries and in various scholarly disciplines. The Series will show a systematic coverage of subjects. Written by the foremost specialists in the respective fields, they aim to provide full-balanced accounts at an advanced level, as well as synthesis of debate and the state of scholarship.
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CONTENTS
Greek Oligarchy, and the pre-Solonian Areopagos Council in [Aristotle] Ath. Pol. 2.2-8.4

    Author: Robert W. Wallace
    Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 191 –205

Thucydides as a Prospect Theorist

    Authors: Josiah Ober and Tomer J. Perry
    Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 206 –232

Hesiod: Man, Law and Cosmos

    Author: Alex Priou
    Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 233 –260

Thucydides in Wartime: Reflecting on Democracy and its Discontents

    Author: Christine Lee
    Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 261 –287

Who’s Happy in Plato’s Republic?

    Author: Jonathan Culp
    Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 288 –312

Political Technê: Plato and the Poets

    Author: Dougal Blyth
    Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 313 –351

Plato’s Rejection of the Instrumental Account of Friendship in the Lysis

    Author: Howard J. Curzer
    Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 352 –368

Jefferson’s Platonic Republicanism

    Author: M. Andrew Holowchak
    Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 369 –386

Hobbes and Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Thucydides, Rhetoric and Political Life

    Author: Timothy W. Burns
    Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 387 –424

Book review: Aristotle’s Teaching in the Politics, written by Thomas Pangle

    Author: Stephen Salkever
    Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 425 –428

Book review: Aristotle. His Life and School, written by Carlo Natali

    Author: Lloyd Gerson
    Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 429 –431

Book review: John Stuart Mill’s Platonic Heritage. Happiness Through Character, written by Antis Loizides

    Author: Giovanni Giorgini
    Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 432 –434

Book review: The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy: A Politico-cultural Transformation and Its Interpretation, written by Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub and Peter Wagner

    Author: Eric W. Robinson
    Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 435 –442

Book review: The Reception of Aristotle’s Ethics, written by Jon Miller

    Author: S.J. Arthur Madigan
    Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 443 –449

Book review: Reflections on Aristotle’s Politics, written by Mogens Herman Hansen

    Author: Peter L. P. Simpson
    Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 450 –451

Book review: Aeschylus’s Suppliant Women: The Tragedy of Immigration, written by Geoffrey W. Bakewell

    Author: Rebecca Futo Kennedy
    Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 452 –455

Book review: Private Lives, Public Deaths: Antigone and the Invention of Individuality, written by Jonathan Strauss

    Author: Larissa Atkison
    Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 456 –459

Book review: Protagoras of Abdera: The Man, His Measure, written by Johannes M. van Ophuijsen, Marlein van Raalte, and Peter Stork

    Author: Christopher Moore
    Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 460 –465

Book review: Political Philosophy Cross-Examined: Perennial Challenges to the Philosophic Life, written by Thomas L. Pangle and J. Harvey Lomax

    Author: David Corbin
    Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 466 –470

Book review: Marcus Tullius Cicero: On the Republic and On the Laws, written by David Fott

    Author: Jonathan Zarecki

Contents
Other
Publisher’s Note

    Author: Jennifer Pavelko
    pp.: 1–1 (1)

Research Article
Because I Said So: Practical Authority in Plato’s Crito

    Author: Micah Lott
    pp.: 3–31 (29)

Research Article
The Benefits of Bullies: Sophists as Unknowing Teachers of Moderation in Plato’s Euthydemus

    Author: Rebecca LeMoine
    pp.: 32–54 (23)

Research Article
Philosophy and Law: An Interpretation of Plato’s Minos

    Author: Steven Thomason
    pp.: 55–74 (20)

Research Article
Punishment and Psychology in Plato’s Gorgias

    Author: J. Clerk Shaw
    pp.: 75–95 (21)

Research Article
Aristotle’s Political Economy: Three Waves of Interpretation

    Author: Nathan Dinneen
    pp.: 96–142 (47)

Research Article
Political Thought in Xenophon: Straussian Readings of the Anabasis

    Author: Tim Rood
    pp.: 143–165 (23)

Research Article
Zeno’s Republic, Plato’s Laws, and the Early Development of Stoic Natural Law Theory

    Author: Jed W. Atkins
    pp.: 166–190 (25)

Research Article
Self-love in Adam Smith and the Stoic Oikeiosis

    Author: María Elton
    pp.: 191–212 (22)

Other
Aristotle’s Other Ethics: Some Recent Translations of the Eudemian Ethics

    Author: Christopher J. Rowe
    pp.: 213–234 (22)

Book Review
Book review: Virtue is Knowledge: The Moral Foundations of Socratic Political Philosophy, written by Lorraine Smith Pangle

    Author: Roslyn Weiss
    pp.: 235–239 (5)

Book Review
Book review: Blindness and Reorientation: Problems in Plato’s Republic, written by C.D.C. Reeve

    Author: Mehmet M. Erginel
    pp.: 240–244 (5)

Book Review
Book review: Law of Ancient Athens. Law and Society in the Ancient World, written by David D. Phillips

    Author: Konstantinos Kapparis
    pp.: 245–247 (3)

Book Review
Book review: Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy, written by Verity Harte and Melissa Lane

    Author: John Lombardini
    pp.: 248–251 (4)

Book Review
Book review: Aristotle on the Nature of Community, written by Adriel M. Trott

    Author: Kevin M. Cherry
    pp.: 252–255 (4)

Book Review
Book review: Textual Rivals: Self-Presentation in Herodotus’ Histories, written by David Branscome

    Author: Joel Alden Schlosser
    pp.: 256–259 (4)

Book Review
Book review: The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-century Athens, written by Wilfred E. Major

    Author: John Zumbrunnen
    pp.: 260–263 (4)

Book Review
Book review: Death to Tyrants!: Ancient Greek Democracy and the Struggle against Tyranny, written by David A. Teegarden

    Author: James Kierstead
    pp.: 264–269 (6)

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Θα πεθάνει ή όχι ο Λασίφ στα σαράντα του χρόνια, όπως προέβλεψε η μάγισσα; Ο Γκάρρικ βιώνει το μαρτύριο του απόλυτου τρόμου, ενώ ο Αντριάν αναχωρεί από το Ντένβερ για να επισκεφτεί τα χαρακώματα του Σομ. Ποιο είναι το μυστικό του; Ο αμαξάς Σεβαλιέ οδεύει για το Μποβέ μ' έναν μυστηριώδη επιβάτη, όμως κάτι θα συμβεί που θ' αλλάξει τη ζωή του. Ο Γουάλας ταξιδεύει στο Λονδίνο για να εκδώσει το βιβλίο του, ωστόσο ακολουθεί μία σειρά από απροσδόκητα γεγονότα. Ένας ανώνυμος ήρωας επαναλαμβάνει το ίδιο δρομολόγιο. Ο Μάρκους Μπλοχ κοιμάται στην αγροικία του για τριάντα ολόκληρα χρόνια. Ή μήπως όχι; Ο γκαλερίστας Μερσέρ μαγνητίζεται από την τεχνοτροπία ενός πίνακα, μια εμμονή που θα έχει παράδοξες επιπτώσεις στη ζωή του. Ο Αμεντέο εξομολογείται τις αμαρτίες του στον πατέρα Ιουστίνο, ωστόσο κάτι πάει στραβά. Ο Δον Τριστάν βγαίνει για κυνήγι, μεσολαβεί κάτι παράξενο και συνέρχεται σ' ένα σκοτεινό μέρος. Εντοπίζεται δώδεκα χρόνια αργότερα. Τι συνέβη; Ο Ντέιλ ζει ανυποψίαστος στη σοφίτα του, όταν αντιλαμβάνεται πως κάποιος τον παρακολουθεί.
Μυθοπλαστική αφήγηση - διηγηματικός ιστός με κεντρικό θεματικό άξονα την αναζήτηση του νοήματος, σ' έναν κόσμο φαινομενικά υποταγμένο στο πεπρωμένο του. Στην τελευταία πράξη, οι πρωταγωνιστές -φιγούρες ετερόκλητες, μα και τόσο όμοιες στην ιλαροτραγικότητά τους- εκτινάσσονται από άλλες εποχές και διαφορετικούς τόπους, και συναντιούνται σ' ένα βαγόνι, για να προσθέσουν, οι ίδιοι, την τελική ψηφίδα στο μωσαϊκό της αινιγματικής τους ύπαρξης. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)

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Ο νεαρός, φιλόδοξος ερευνητής Γκέιλ Έλιοτ αφοσιώνεται στη μελέτη ενός λησμονημένου φιλοσόφου του δέκατου όγδοου αιώνα, ωστόσο σταδιακά αποσπάται από τον "εαυτό" του και ασυνείδητα αφομοιώνεται από το κεντρικό πρόσωπο της αφήγησης.

Ο φιλόσοφος (Φλόυερ Σίντενχαμ), σε μια τελευταία, μοιραία συνάντηση με τον Έλιοτ, αποκηρύσσει το έργο του, και σε έναν χρόνο ασύμβατο, μεταξύ ονειρικής απόδρασης και μιας σχεδόν μυστικής σύλληψης της πραγματικότητας, σε ένα συγκλονιστικό ταξίδι στο παρελθόν, αναλαμβάνει ο ίδιος να ολοκληρώσει το βιβλίο παραμερίζοντας τον συγγραφέα.

Ποιος είναι εν τέλει ο ήρωας του βιβλίου; Ο συγγραφέας ή ο πρωταγωνιστής του; Ποιος είναι, αληθινά, ο πρωταγωνιστής στο Χειρόγραφο; Προβολή της φαντασίας του συγγραφέα, ένα πληγωμένο φάντασμα ή η προσωποποίηση μιας ενοχής συνείδησης; Μια παράξενη ιστορία, με φόντο το Λονδίνο δύο εποχών. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)

Νουβέλα (κατεβάστε το κείμενο)

Ένας φοιτητής Φιλοσοφίας φτάνει σε ένα παλιό βικτοριανό κτίριο, για να βιώσει μια παράδοξη περιπλάνηση στο παρελθόν. Το ιστορικό οικοδόμημα -παλιό σανατόριο ανίατων ασθενών, στέγη φοιτητών πια- διυλίζεται στον χρόνο και στη λονδρέζικη ομίχλη, μαζί με τους ενοίκους του, και μετατοπίζεται με βιαιότητα σε τρεις διαδοχικές εποχές, με ανάστροφη πορεία και απροσδόκητο προορισμό. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου), σελ. 144.

Κατεβάστε το κείμενο

Σπονδυλωτή ανάδρομη αφήγηση σε τριάντα τρεις ενότητες. Μνημονικές αναπαραστάσεις εναγώνιας ενδοσκόπησης και αυτο-εξιστόρησης, μέσα από τις οποίες αποκαλύπτονται τα μυστικά και τα τραγικά γεγονότα που οδήγησαν τον πρωταγωνιστή σε μια αλλοτριωμένη ύπαρξη. Ο Λέναρντ Μάισνερ, ο ίδιος πλέον αντιμέτωπος με τον θάνατο και τη θνητότητα, καλείται ν' αναλάβει τις ευθύνες του. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)

Το Χειρόγραφο (The manuscript)

Ο νεαρός, φιλόδοξος ερευνητής Γκέιλ Έλιοτ αφοσιώνεται στη μελέτη ενός λησμονημένου φιλοσόφου του δέκατου όγδοου αιώνα, ωστόσο σταδιακά αποσπάται από τον «εαυτό» του και ασυνείδητα αφομοιώνεται από το κεντρικό πρόσωπο της αφήγησης. Ο φιλόσοφος (Φλόυερ Σίντενχαμ), σε μια τελευταία, μοιραία συνάντηση με τον Έλιοτ, αποκηρύσσει το έργο του, και σε έναν χρόνο ασύμβατο, μεταξύ ονειρικής απόδρασης και μιας σχεδόν μυστικής σύλληψης της πραγματικότητας, σε ένα συγκλονιστικό ταξίδι στο παρελθόν, αναλαμβάνει ο ίδιος να ολοκληρώσει το βιβλίο παραμερίζοντας τον συγγραφέα. Ποιός είναι εν τέλει ο ήρωας του βιβλίου; Ο συγγραφέας ή ο πρωταγωνιστής του; Ποιός είναι, αληθινά, ο πρωταγωνιστής στο «Χειρόγραφο»; Προβολή της φαντασίας του συγγραφέα, ένα πληγωμένο φάντασμα ή η προσωποποίηση μιας ένοχης συνείδησης; Μια παράξενη ιστορία, με φόντο το Λονδίνο δύο εποχών.

Τρεις μήνες και μία μέρα (Three months and a day)

Ένας φοιτητής φιλοσοφίας φτάνει σε ένα παλιό βικτοριανό κτίριο, για να βιώσει μια παράδοξη περιπλάνηση στο παρελθόν. Το ιστορικό οικοδόμημα – παλιό σανατόριο ανίατων ασθενών, στέγη φοιτητών πια – δυιλίζεται στον χρόνο και στη λονδρέζικη ομίχλη, μαζί με τους ενοίκους του, και μετατοπίζεται με βιαιότητα σε τρεις διαδοχικές εποχές, με ανάστροφη πορεία και απροσδόκητο προορισμό. Σπονδυλωτή ατμοσφαιρική αφήγηση που διαδραματίζεται σε “τρεις μήνες και μία μέρα”.