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Tables of Contents for The Mask of Socrates
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: Image, Space, and Social Values
1
39
The Modern Intellectual Hero
3
6
Roman Copies, or Through a Glass Darkly
9
5
Wisdom and Nobility: An Early Portrait of Homer
14
8
Anacreon and Pericles
22
10
Socrates and the Mask of Silenus
32
8
The Intellectual as Good Citizen
40
50
Statues Honoring the Great Tragedians
43
14
Sophocles: The Politically Active Citizen
43
7
Aeschylus: The Face of the Athenian Everyman
50
2
Euripides: The Wise Old Man
52
5
A Revised Portrait of Socrates
57
6
A General in Mufti: Models from the Past
63
4
Plato's Serious Expression: Contemplation as a Civic Virtue?
67
10
Political Upheaval and the End of the Classical Citizen Image: Menander and Demosthenes
77
13
The Rigors of Thinking
90
56
Zeno's Furrowed Brow
92
5
Chrysippus, ``The Knife That Cuts Through the Academics' Knots''
97
5
The Thinker's Tortured Body
102
6
Chrysippus' Beard
108
5
The ``Throne'' of Epicurus
113
9
Bodies, Healthy and Unhealthy
122
7
Who Would Honor a Cynic?
129
5
The Philosopher and the King
134
2
Poseidippus: The Hard Work of Writing Poetry
136
6
Soft Pillows and Softer Poets
142
4
In the Shadow of the Ancients
146
52
The Old Singer
146
4
A Peasant-Poet
150
4
Invented Faces
154
4
The Cult of Poets
158
8
The Divine Homer
166
5
Hellenistic Kings and Archaic Poets
171
2
The Retrospective Philosopher Portrait: Socrates, Antisthenes, and Diogenes
173
7
The ``Gentrification'' of the Philosopher Portrait: Carneades and Poseidonius
180
8
The ``Intellectualization'' of the Citizen Portrait
188
6
Man the Reader: Paradigm for a New Age
194
4
Hadrian's Beard
198
69
The World of Otium and the Gentleman Scholar
203
7
Humble Poets and Rich Dilettantes
210
7
Hadrian's Beard: Fashion and Mentalite
217
16
Apuleius and the Case of the Uncombed Hair
233
10
The Elegant Intellectual
243
4
The Past in the Present: Rituals of Remembrance
247
9
The Long Hair of the Charismatics
256
11
The Cult of Learning Transfigured
267
66
Learned Couples and Their Child Prodigies
268
9
Political Office and the Philosophical Life
277
7
The Educated Man's Search for Inner Peace
284
5
Christ as the Teacher of the True Philosophy
289
8
The Dual Face of Christ
297
10
The Late Antique Philosopher ``Look''
307
13
Late Roman Copies: New Faces on Old Friends
320
7
The Power of the Muses
327
6
Epilogue: Ancient Philosophers and the Modern Intellectual
333
8
Abbreviations
341
2
Notes
343
54
Sources of Illustrations
397
4
Bibliography
401
12
General Index
413
6
Index Locorum
419
4
Museum Index
423