Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340399
Claire Taylor
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Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340390
Carey Seal
Cornelius Nepos’ Life of Atticus shows its author as living a life of deliberate withdrawal from politics. This paper compares that life to other models of political withdrawal in Greco-Roman thought and finds that it does not cohere very closely with any of them. Nepos, the paper proposes, deviates from these existing models in showing Atticus as avoiding politics not out of a desire to transcend human life, to reorder politics, or to create a substitute politics of his own, but rather to live what the paper calls ‘social life.’ Atticus embraces human interdependence while rejecting the civic forms in which that interdependence was traditionally expressed in Greece and Rome.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340389
M. Clarke
This paper argues that Cicero’s critique of Epicureanism in De finibus is motivated by a concern about its degrading effect on the moral sensibility of Rome’s best men. In place of earlier objections to Epicureanism, which centered on its inability to explain or recommend the virtuous conduct of Roman maiores, De finibus focuses on its inability to do so properly and, more prospectively, to assist boni in the work of maintaining the dignity and respectability of Roman civic life. Responding to optimates like Cassius who claimed that Epicureanism was compatible with Roman politics because it treats virtue as being necessary for pleasure, Cicero holds that instrumentalizing virtue in this way is actually a grave corruption of it. Not only do Epicureans debase politics by reducing it to considerations of utility alone: they also introduce deeper forms of civic confusion by distorting and abusing the very idea of honorableness.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340395
Daniel J. Kapust
Drawing on Rex Stem’s analysis of exempla, I explore Mercy Otis Warren and John Marshall’s narrations of the Society of the Cincinnati, and Washington’s place within it, to draw out the lessons they sought to impart. Beginning with an exploration of Cincinnatus’ exemplum in antiquity, its relationship to late 18th-century portrayals of Washington, and its invocation in the establishment of the Society of the Cincinnati, I also discuss the exemplum by a prominent critic of the Society of the Cincinnati, Aedanus Burke. I then turn to Warren and Marshall’s accounts of the Cincinnati. I do so with a particular focus on how a single exemplary American – George Washington – is depicted in two different ways, exemplifying two different sets of moral teaching. I conclude by suggesting that Warren, Marshall, and Burke’s battle over the exemplum of Cincinnatus is a battle over the moral ordering of America’s future.
根据雷克斯·斯特恩(Rex Stem)对范例的分析，我探究了默西·奥蒂斯·沃伦(Mercy Otis Warren)和约翰·马歇尔(John Marshall)对辛辛那提协会(Society of the Cincinnati)的叙述，以及华盛顿在其中的地位，从中汲取他们试图传授的教训。从探索辛辛那提在古代的典范开始，它与18世纪晚期对华盛顿的描绘的关系，以及它在辛辛那提协会建立中的引用，我还讨论了辛辛那提协会的一位著名评论家Aedanus Burke的范例。然后我转向沃伦和马歇尔对辛辛那提号的描述。我特别关注的是如何用两种不同的方式来描绘一个典型的美国人——乔治·华盛顿，这是两套不同的道德教育的例证。我的结论是，沃伦、马歇尔和伯克围绕辛辛纳图斯范例的斗争，是一场围绕美国未来道德秩序的斗争。
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Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340397
J. Blok
{"title":"Democracy in Crisis: Lessons from Ancient Athens, written by Jeff Miller","authors":"J. Blok","doi":"10.1163/20512996-12340397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340397","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43237,"journal":{"name":"POLIS","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79109222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340385
Kyriakos Demetriou
{"title":"Polis Celebrates Its 40th Volume and Its 45th Year of Existence","authors":"Kyriakos Demetriou","doi":"10.1163/20512996-12340385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340385","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43237,"journal":{"name":"POLIS","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75061993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340393
G. Nelsestuen
This article offers a critical appraisal of approaches to ‘friendship’ (amicitia) in Cornelius Nepos’s Atticus and Cicero’s De Amicitia, as found in the scholarship of Rex Stem and Grant Nelsestuen. In light of the former’s untimely passing in 2020, it uses an exchange of personal correspondence in 2019 between these two scholars – as well as John Alexander Lobur’s 2021 book on Nepos – as a basis for sketching new approaches to the role that friendship plays in Nepos’s biographies. Friendship thus turns out to be both an important aspect of Nepos’ political thought and a crucial means for advancing scholarly understanding of Nepos’ project in Atticus and his other biographies.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340388
Charlotte C. S. Thomas
In Pro Murena, Cicero argues that Cato’s rigid philosophical comportment to politics reflects a mistaken understanding both of philosophy and of politics. By implication, he suggests that there is an approach to philosophy that is compatible with political leadership. Specifically, he argues that a thoroughgoing commitment to the philosophy of the Platonic Academy (i.e., Academic Philosophy) is entirely compatible with a thoroughgoing commitment to political leadership in the late Roman Republic. This essay looks at the most famous treatment of philosophical leadership in the Platonic corpus, the philosopher ruler of the Republic, and asks to what extent Cicero’s depiction of politics and philosophy is consonant with that account.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340402
L. Hau
{"title":"Polybius: Experience and the Lessons of History, written by Daniel Walker Moore","authors":"L. Hau","doi":"10.1163/20512996-12340402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340402","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43237,"journal":{"name":"POLIS","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89850556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340400
Lorraine Pangle
{"title":"Xenophon of Athens: A Socratic on Sparta, written by Noreen Humble","authors":"Lorraine Pangle","doi":"10.1163/20512996-12340400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340400","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43237,"journal":{"name":"POLIS","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83754443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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