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The children of Athena, Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 BC-400 AD, Charles Freeman

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-368) and index

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The children of Athena

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Charles Freeman

Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 BC-400 AD

"In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla destroyed the city of Socrates and Plato, laying waste to the famous Academy where Aristotle had studied. However, the traditions of Greek cultural life continued to flourish during the centuries of Roman rule that followed--in the lives and work of a distinguished array of philosophers, doctors, scientists, geographers, and theologians. Charles Freeman's accounts of such luminaries as the physician Galen, the geographer Ptolemy, and the philosopher Plotinus are interwoven with contextual "interludes" that showcase a sequence of unjustly neglected and richly influential lives. A cultural history on an epic scale, The Children of Athena presents the story of a rich and vibrant tradition of Greek intellectual inquiry across a period of more than five hundred years, from the second century BC to the start of the fifth century AD."--Amazon

Prologue: The Banquet. Introduction: Greece becoming Roman -- Scrolls, education and travel -- Philosophy and its schools -- The Historian: Polybius -- The Polymath: Posidonius -- The Geographer: Strabo -- Interlude One. The Res Gestae of Augustus and the Sebasteion of Aphrodisias. The Botanist: Dioscorides -- The Philosopher and Biographer: Plutarch -- Interlude Two. Hadrian and the patronage of Greek culture. The stoic philosopher: Epictetus -- The politician, historian and philosopher: Arian of Nicomedia -- The geographer and astronomer: Claudisu Ptolemy -- The Satirist: Lucian of Samosata -- The Medical man: Galen -- The travel guide: Pausanias -- Interlude three. City life in second-century Asia Minor: Sagalassos. The politician and orator: Dio Chrysostom -- The rhetorician: Aelius Aristides -- The politician and philanthropist: Herodes Atticus -- Interlude four. The clouds darken: The Greek world in an age of crisis. The philosopher: Plotinus -- Tge okatibuc tgeikiguabL Ckenebt if Akexabdrua -- The Biblical scholar: Origen -- Interlude five. Constantinople and the promulgation of Christian orthodoxy. The court orator: Themistius -- The last of the pagan orators: Libanius -- The neoplatonist philosopher and mathematician: Hypatia -- Afterlives -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography and notes on sources -- Picture credits -- Index