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Brill Companions To Classical Reception Series, Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Brill Companions To Classical Reception Series, Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Kyriakos N. Demetriou
This is a revised updated Call for the series launched by Brill Academic Publishers, "Companions to Classical Reception". A list of forthcoming Companions appears at the end of the document.
Asking For Plato's Forgiveness. Floyer Sydenham: A Platonic Visionary Of 18th-Century Britain, Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Asking For Plato's Forgiveness. Floyer Sydenham: A Platonic Visionary Of 18th-Century Britain, Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Kyriakos N. Demetriou
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 complete 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 incorporating 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 expanded on Lord Shaftesbury’s teleological views of …
Brill Academic Publishers: Companions To Classical Reception, Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Brill Academic Publishers: Companions To Classical Reception, Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Kyriakos N. Demetriou
A new series launched by Brill Academc Publishers, Companions to Classical Reception. Call for Proposals and Related Information.
George Grote On Plato And Athenian Democracy: A Study In Classical Reception, Kyriakos N. Demetriou
George Grote On Plato And Athenian Democracy: A Study In Classical Reception, Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Kyriakos N. Demetriou
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 The author draws on both unpublished works of Grote and also a wide range of published material, with emphasis on the History of Greece and Plato and the other Companions of Sokrates, to give us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 …
In Defence Of The British Constitution: Theoretical Implications Of The Debate Over Athenian Democracy In Britain, 1770-1850, Kyriakos N. Demetriou
In Defence Of The British Constitution: Theoretical Implications Of The Debate Over Athenian Democracy In Britain, 1770-1850, Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Writing a history of ancient Greece, in periods of political turbulence and transition, involved the construction of an edifying platform for civil conduct. Britain, 1770-1850, was one such period. In examining Athenian democracy the British historians of the late eighteenth century, like William Mitford and John Gillies, found a convenient channel to articulate their private political preferences and antipathies, thereby accentuating the ideological antagonism of the post-revolutionary age. Athenian liberalism was deliberately drawn from oblivion only to be set as a constitutional example to avoid, whereas the merits of the mixed British constitution were distinctly exposed. The British Utilitarians, by …