Publisher's Synopsis
These 17 essays give a critical account of the paradoxes and fragilities between Greek and Roman philosophy and history. The volume is divided into two interrelated parts. The first is centred on the question of what philosophy was in antiquity. It engages with ancient and modern debates about the limits and genealogies of the discipline within the wider contexts of the Greek cities and the Roman Republic and Empire. The second part examines modes and objects of philosophical enquiry focusing specifically on the diversity of philosophical categories and fields.
