Utopias in ancient thought / Pierre Destrée, Jan Opsomer, Geert Roskam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Destrée, Pierre, author.

Opsomer, Jan, author.

Roskam, Geert, author.

Series:

Beiträge Zur Altertumskunde

Beiträge Zur Altertumskunde ; v.395

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Utopias--Philosophy.

Utopias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]

Summary:

The volumes published in the series Beiträge zur Altertumskunde comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient Philosophy as well as Classical Reception Studies. The series thus offers indispensable research tools for a wide range of disciplines related to Ancient Studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Content

Preface

The quest for the best. Praise, blame, utopia

What will we do when we get there? Utopia and Dicing in Greek Comedy

What Thomas More learned from Herodotus about Utopia

Temporality and utopia in Xenophon and Isocrates

Plato’s ideal society and Utopia

Plato and Utopia: Philosophy, Power, and Practicability in Plato’s Republic

Plato and the utopia within us

Aristotle’s ‘City of our Prayers’ within the History of Political Utopianism

Utopia and the quest for autarkeia

Were the later Stoics anti-utopians?

Cicero and the Golden Age Tradition

All Over the World: The Utopian Idea in Diodorus Siculus

Laughter in Lucian’s Utopias of the Dead

Tao Yuanming’s ‘Peach Blossom Source’ and the Ideal of the ‘Golden Age’ in Classical Antiquity: Utopias in Ancient China and Classical Antiquity

Index locorum

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-073312-9

OCLC:

1266228311