The Sculpted Word: Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment in Ancient Greece 9780520312135, 0520312139

This study of the recruitment techniques used by the philosophical schools of Hellenistic Greece. Bernard Frischer focus

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Table of contents :
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter I. Introduction: Philosophy and Society in Greece
Chapter II. A Reconstruction of the Epicurean Policy on Recruitment and Conversion
Chapter III. From Theory to Practice: Quantitative and Qualitative Problems of Epicurean Images
Chapter IV. Iconographical Problems: On the Identification, Reconstruction, and Dating of Epicurus' Portrait Statue
Chapter V. Iconological Problems: An Interpretation of Epicurus' Portrait
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Index
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