The Mask of Socrates

  Acknowledgments

 collapse sectionI.  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
 collapse sectionII.  The Intellectual as Good Citizen
 collapse sectionStatues 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
 collapse sectionIII.  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
 collapse sectionIV.  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
 collapse sectionV.  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
 collapse sectionVI.  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
 collapse sectionNotes
 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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