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• Philosophy, Ancient [Browse]
• Women—Philosophy [Browse]

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• McKeen, Catherine [Browse]

Series

Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy Series [More in this series]

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An essential reference source for cutting-edge scholarship on women/gender and philosophy in Greek antiquity. The volume features original research that crosses disciplines, offering readers an accessible guide to new methods, new sources, and new questions in the study of ancient Greek philosophy and its multiple afterlives.

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Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgment
• 1 Introduction
• Part I: 700-400s BCE
• 2 The Way Up and Down: Liminal Agency in the Homeric Hymns and Presocratic Philosophy
• 3 Sappho of Lesbos and the Time of Erosophy
• 4 Sex, Family, and Chthonic Justice: On the Cosmology of the Choephoroi
• 5 Euripides on Epistemic Injustice? Interpreting the Fragments of Melanippe Sophe and Desmotis
• 6 On Not-Believing: A Gorgianic Reading of the Tragic Cassandra
• 7 The Correctness of Grammatical Gender in the Sophistic Tradition
• Part II: 400s-300s BCE
• 8 Eis Gynaikos Andra: Aeschines on Women, Eros, and Politics
• 9 "By Zeus," Said Theodote: Women As Interlocutors and Performers in Xenophon's Philosophical Writings
• 10 Women in Xenophon's Socratic Works
• 11 Socrates' Laughing Bodies: Women and Comedy in Plato's Phaedo
• 12 Plato's Argument for the Inclusion of Women in the Guardian Class: Prospects and Problems
• 13 Women, Spirit, and Authority in Plato and Aristotle
• 14 Plato on Women and the Private Family
• 15 Plato's Scientific Feminism: Collection and Division in Republic V's "First Wave"
• 16 Weaving Politics in Plato's Statesman
• 17 Socratic Midwifery
• 18 Divine Names and the Mystery of Diotima
• 19 Sex Difference and What It Means to Be Human in Timaeus
• Part III: 300s-200s BCE
• 20 Cyrenaics on Philosophical Education and Gender
• 21 Wives or Philosophers? Hipparchia and the Cynic Criticism of Gendered Economics
• 22 Diagnosing Aristotle's Sexism
• 23 Women in Ancient Medical Texts as Sources of Knowledge in Aristotle
• 24 Aristotle's Hylomorphism Reconsidered Through Aristotle's Account of Generation
• 25 The Role of Females in Aristotle's Teleology of Reproduction
• 26 Aristotle on Women's Virtues.
• 27 What Is Wrong with Women: Aristotle's Paradigm of Gender and Its Anomalies
• Part IV: 200s BCE-700s CE
• 28 Pythagorean Women: An Example of Female Philosophical Protreptics
• 29 Women in the Household and Public Sphere: Two Contrasting Stoic Views
• 30 Pyrrhonian Skepticism on Gender and Virtue
• 31 The Reception of Diotima in Later Platonism: Clea, Sosipatra and Asclepigeneia
• 32 The Place of Women in the Neoplatonic Schools
• 33 The School of Hypatia and the Problem of the Gendered Soul
• Part V: Later Receptions
• 34 The Worth of Women: The Reception of Ancient Debates in the Renaissance
• 35 Philosopher Queens and a Female Prospero(a): Plato's Republic and Shakespeare's Tempest
• 36 "Possessed, Magical, and Dangerous to Handle": Jane Harrison, Nietzsche, and the Maenad Chorus
• 37 Women's Work: Exploring a Tradition of Inquiry with W. E. B. Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper, and Aristotle
• 38 Sarah Kofman: Socratic Lover
• 39 Decolonial Ruminations on a Classic: Medea, Sethe and La Llorona
• 40 Eros, the Elusive? A Dialogue on Plato's Symposium, Diotima and Women in Ancient Philosophy
• Further Reading
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1-003-04785-8
• 1-003-80941-3

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