The Mask of Socrates The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity 1st Edition by Paul Zanker, Alan Shapiro ISBN 9780520310018 0520310012

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ISBN 10: 0520310012
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Author: Paul Zanker, Alan Shapiro

This richly illustrated work provides a new and deeper perspective on the interaction of visual representation and classical culture from the fifth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Drawing on a variety of source materials, including Greco-Roman literature, historiography, and philosophy, coupled with artistic renderings, Paul Zanker forges the first comprehensive history of the visual representation of Greek and Roman intellectuals. He takes the reader from the earliest visual images of Socrates and Plato to the figures of Christ, the Apostles, and contemporaneous pagan and civic dignitaries.
 
Through his interpretations of the postures, gestures, facial expressions, and stylistic changes of particular pieces, we come to know these great poets and philosophers through all of their various personas—the prophetic wise man, the virtuous democratic citizen, or the self-absorbed bon vivant. Zanker’s analysis of how the iconography of influential thinkers and writers changed demonstrates the rise and fall of trends and the movement of schools of thought and belief, each successively embodying the most valued characteristics of the period and culture.
 This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.

The Mask of Socrates The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity 1st Edition Table of contents:

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 Politically 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”

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

SOURCES OF ILLUSTRATIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GENERAL INDEX

INDEX LOCORUM

MUSEUM INDEX

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