The Routledge handbook of women and ancient greek philosophy / Sara Brill

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brill, Sara., Author.

Contributor:

McKeen, Catherine.

Series:

Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient.

Women--Philosophy.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (667 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

Summary:

An essential reference source for cutting-edge scholarship on women/gender and philosophy in Greek antiquity. The volume features original research that crosses disciplines, offering readers an accessible guide to new methods, new sources, and new questions in the study of ancient Greek philosophy and its multiple afterlives.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgment

1 Introduction

Part I: 700-400s BCE

2 The Way Up and Down: Liminal Agency in the Homeric Hymns and Presocratic Philosophy

3 Sappho of Lesbos and the Time of Erosophy

4 Sex, Family, and Chthonic Justice: On the Cosmology of the Choephoroi

5 Euripides on Epistemic Injustice? Interpreting the Fragments of Melanippe Sophe and Desmotis

6 On Not-Believing: A Gorgianic Reading of the Tragic Cassandra

7 The Correctness of Grammatical Gender in the Sophistic Tradition

Part II: 400s-300s BCE

8 Eis Gynaikos Andra: Aeschines on Women, Eros, and Politics

9 "By Zeus," Said Theodote: Women As Interlocutors and Performers in Xenophon's Philosophical Writings

10 Women in Xenophon's Socratic Works

11 Socrates' Laughing Bodies: Women and Comedy in Plato's Phaedo

12 Plato's Argument for the Inclusion of Women in the Guardian Class: Prospects and Problems

13 Women, Spirit, and Authority in Plato and Aristotle

14 Plato on Women and the Private Family

15 Plato's Scientific Feminism: Collection and Division in Republic V's "First Wave"

16 Weaving Politics in Plato's Statesman

17 Socratic Midwifery

18 Divine Names and the Mystery of Diotima

19 Sex Difference and What It Means to Be Human in Timaeus

Part III: 300s-200s BCE

20 Cyrenaics on Philosophical Education and Gender

21 Wives or Philosophers? Hipparchia and the Cynic Criticism of Gendered Economics

22 Diagnosing Aristotle's Sexism

23 Women in Ancient Medical Texts as Sources of Knowledge in Aristotle

24 Aristotle's Hylomorphism Reconsidered Through Aristotle's Account of Generation

25 The Role of Females in Aristotle's Teleology of Reproduction

26 Aristotle on Women's Virtues.

27 What Is Wrong with Women: Aristotle's Paradigm of Gender and Its Anomalies

Part IV: 200s BCE-700s CE

28 Pythagorean Women: An Example of Female Philosophical Protreptics

29 Women in the Household and Public Sphere: Two Contrasting Stoic Views

30 Pyrrhonian Skepticism on Gender and Virtue

31 The Reception of Diotima in Later Platonism: Clea, Sosipatra and Asclepigeneia

32 The Place of Women in the Neoplatonic Schools

33 The School of Hypatia and the Problem of the Gendered Soul

Part V: Later Receptions

34 The Worth of Women: The Reception of Ancient Debates in the Renaissance

35 Philosopher Queens and a Female Prospero(a): Plato's Republic and Shakespeare's Tempest

36 "Possessed, Magical, and Dangerous to Handle": Jane Harrison, Nietzsche, and the Maenad Chorus

37 Women's Work: Exploring a Tradition of Inquiry with W. E. B. Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper, and Aristotle

38 Sarah Kofman: Socratic Lover

39 Decolonial Ruminations on a Classic: Medea, Sethe and La Llorona

40 Eros, the Elusive? A Dialogue on Plato's Symposium, Diotima and Women in Ancient Philosophy

Further Reading

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

version imprimée

ISBN:

9781003047858

1003047858

9781003809418

1003809413

OCLC:

1427662974