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From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Overall very good and clean. - CONTENTS: Bibliography of Works by Miriam T. Griffin -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Philosophy and Power, Gillian Clark and Tessa Rajak -- I. Philosophy and the State -- Did Socrates Agree to Obey the Laws of Athens?, Lesley Brown -- The Worth of Human Dignity: Two Tensions in Stoic Cosmopolitanism, Martha C. Nussbaum -- Cicero and the Defining of the Ius Civile, Jill Harries -- Government and Law: Ulpian, a Philosopher in Politics?, Fergus Millar -- II. The Power of Philosophy -- Academic Therapy: Philo of Larissa and Cicero�s Project in the Tusculans, Malcolm Schofield -- Beyond Comparison: M. Sergius, Fortunae Victor, Mary Beagon -- Women, Power, and Philosophy at Rome and Beyond, Barbara Levick -- Philosophy in the Second Sophistic, Glen W. Bowersock -- III. Power -- Cicero: A Man of Letters in Politics, Zvi Yavetz -- Deus or Divus: The Genesis of Roman Terminology for Deified Emperors and a Philosopher�s Contribution, David Wardle -- Arcanum Imperii: The Powers of Augustus, Hannah M. Cotton and Alexander Yakobson -- An Emperor is Made: Senatorial Politics and Trajan�s Adoption by Nerva in 97, Werner Eck -- IV. Philosophy and Religion -- �Foolishness to the Greeks�: Jews and Christians in the Public Life of the Empire, Loveday Alexander -- Old Philosophy and New Power: Cicero in Fifth-Century North Africa, Margaret Atkins -- The Creation of Orthodoxy in Neoplatonism, Polymnia Athanassiadi -- Ancient Philosophers, Jonathan Barnes -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Names -- Index of Modern Authors -- General Index. - Gillian Clark is Professor of Ancient History, University of Bristol. Tessa Rajak is Professor of Ancient History, University of Reading. ISBN 9780198299905