The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy)

The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy is 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. Comprising 40 chapters from a diverse international group of experts, the Handbook considers questions about women and gender in sources from Greek antiquity spanning the period from 7th c. BCE to 2nd c. BCE, and in receptions of Greek antiquity from the Roman Imperial period, through the European Renaissance to the current day. Chapters are organized into five major sections: I. Early Greek antiquity – including Sappho, Presocratic philosophy, Sophists, and Greek tragedy – 700s–400s BCEII. Classical Greek antiquity – including Aeschines, Plato, and Xenophon – 400s–300s BCEIII. Late Classical Greek to Hellenistic antiquity – including Cyrenaics, Cynics, the Hippocratic corpus, and Aristotle – 300s–200s BCEIV. Late Greek antiquity to Roman Imperial period – including Pythagorean women, Stoics, Pyrrhonian Skeptics, and late Platonists – 200s BCE to 700s CEV. Later receptions – including Shakespeare, the European Renaissance, Anna Julia Cooper, W.E.B. DuBois, Jane Harrison, Sarah Kofman, and Toni MorrisonThe Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy is a vital resource for students and scholars in philosophy, Classics, and gender studies who want to gain a deeper understanding of philosophy's rich past and explore sources and questions beyond the traditional canon. The volume is a valuable resource, as well, for students and scholars from history, humanities, literature, political science, religious studies, rhetorical studies, theatre, and LGBTQ and sexuality studies. 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 The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy is 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. Comprising 40 chapters from a diverse international group of experts, the Handbook considers questions about women and gender in sources from Greek antiquity spanning the period from 7th c. BCE to 2nd c. CE, and in receptions of Greek antiquity from the European Renaissance to the current day. Chapters are organized into five major I. Early Greek antiquity including Sappho, Presocratic philosophy, Sophists, and Greek tragedy - 700s-400s BCE II. Classical Greek antiquity including Aeschines, Plato, and Xenophon - 370s-340s BCE III. Hellenistic antiquity including Cyrenaics, Cynics, the Hippocratic corpus, and Aristotle 330s-320s BCE IV. Late Greek antiquity to Roman Imperial period including Pythagorean women, Stoics, Pyrrhonian Skeptics, late Platonists 320s BCE-600s CE V. Later receptions including Shakespeare, the European Renaissance, Anna Julia Cooper, W.E.B. DuBois, Jane Harrison, Sarah Kofman, and Toni Morrison The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy is a vital resource for students and scholars in philosophy, Classics, and gender studies who want to gain a deeper understanding of philosophys rich past and explore sources and questions beyond the traditional canon. The volume is a valuable resource, as well, for students and scholars from history, humanities, literature, political science, religious studies, rhetorical studies, theatre, and LGBTQ and sexuality studies.