The Mask of Socrates |
Acknowledgments |
I. Introduction: Image, Space, and Social Values |
• | The Modern Intellectual Hero |
• | Roman Copies, or Through a Glass Darkly |
• | Wisdom and Nobility: An Early Portrait of Homer |
• | Anacreon and Pericles |
• | Socrates and the Mask of Silenus |
II. The Intellectual as Good Citizen |
Statues Honoring the Great Tragedians |
• | Sophocles: The Political Active Citizen |
• | Aeschylus: The Face of the Athenian Everyman |
• | Euripides: The Wise Old Man |
• | A Revised Portrait of Socrates |
• | A General in Mufti: Models from the Past |
• | Plato's Serious Expression: Contemplation as a Civic Virtue? |
• | Political Upheaval and the End of the Classical Citizen Image: Menander and Demosthenes |
III. The Rigors of Thinking |
• | Zeno's Furrowed Brow |
• | Chrysippus, "The Knife That Cuts Through the Academics' Knots" |
• | The Thinker's Tortured Body |
• | Chrysippus' Beard |
• | The "Throne" of Epicurus |
• | Bodies, Healthy and Unhealthy |
• | Who Would Honor a Cynic? |
• | The Philosopher and the King |
• | Poseidippus: The Hard Work of Writing Poetry |
• | Soft Pillows and Softer Poets |
IV. In the Shadow of the Ancients |
• | The Old Singer |
• | A Peasant-Poet |
• | Invented Faces |
• | The Cult of Poets |
• | The Divine Homer |
• | Hellenistic Kings and Archaic Poets |
• | The Retrospective Philosopher Portrait: Socrates, Antisthenes, and Diogenes |
• | The "Gentrification" of the Philosopher Portrait: Carneades and Poseidonius |
• | The "Intellectualization" of the Citizen Portrait |
• | Man the Reader: Paradigm for a New Age |
V. Hadrian's Beard |
• | The World of Otium and the Gentleman Scholar |
• | Humble Poets and Rich Dilettantes |
• | Hadrian's Beard: Fashion and Mentalité |
• | Apuleius and the Case of the Uncombed Hair |
• | The Elegant Intellectual |
• | The Past in the Present: Rituals of Remembrance |
• | The Long Hair of the Charismatics |
VI. The Cult of Learning Transfigured |
• | Learned Couples and Their Child Prodigies |
• | Political Office and the Philosophical Life |
• | The Educated Man's Search for Inner Peace |
• | Christ as the Teacher of the True Philosophy |
• | The Dual Face of Christ |
• | The Late Antique Philosopher "Look" |
• | Late Roman Copies: New Faces on Old Friends |
• | The Power of the Muses |
Epilogue Ancient Philosophers and the Modern Intellectual |
Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works |
Notes |
• | I. Introduction: Image, Space, and Social Values |
• | II. The Intellectual as Good Citizen |
• | III. The Rigors of Thinking |
• | IV. In the Shadow of the Ancients |
• | V. Hadrian's Beard |
• | VI. The Cult of Learning Transfigured |
Sources of Illustrations |
Bibliography |
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