Utopias in Ancient Thought / / ed. by Pierre Destrée, Jan Opsomer, Geert Roskam.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Annas, Julia,; Atack, Carol,; Destrée, P.,; El Murr, Dimitri,; Engels, David,; Hatzistavrou, Antony,; Horn, Christoph,; Husson, Suzanne,; Kidd, Stephen E.,; Kuin, Inger N.I.,; Lockwood, Thornton C.,; McConnell, Sean,; Opsomer, J.,; Reydams-Schils, Gretchen,; Roskam, G.,; Sissa, Giulia,; Sulimani, Iris,
• HerausgeberIn: Destrée, Pierre,; Opsomer, Jan,; Roskam, Geert,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde , 395
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 309 p.)

This collection deals with utopias in the Greek and Roman worlds. Plato is the first and foremost name that comes to mind and, accordingly, 3 chapters (J. Annas; D. El Murr; A. Hazistavrou) are devoted to his various approaches to utopia in the Republic, Timaeus and Laws. But this volume's cent...

Table of 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