Maieusis pays tribute to the highly influential work of Myles Burnyeat, whose contributions to the study of ancient philosophy have done much to enhance the profile of the subject around the world. What is distinctive about his work is his capacity to deepen our understanding of the relation between ancient and modern thought, and to combine the best of contemporary philosophy - its insights as well as its rigour - with a deep sensitivity to classical texts. Nineteen of the world's leading experts in the field examine a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, with a particular focus on Plato. Topics include Socrates and the nature of philosophy, the different aspects of eros in the Symposium, Republic and Phaedrus, the Phaedo's arguments for immortality, wars and warriors in Plato, and the different aspects of the cave allegory in the Republic. .

Introduction

1. Looking inside Charmides' cloak: seeing others and oneself in Plato's Charmides , Mary Margaret McCabe

2. Socrates and philosophy as a way of life , John M. Cooper

3. Virtue as the love of knowledge in Plato's Symposium and Republic , Melissa Lane

4. Equal sticks and stones , David Sedley

5. The Phaedo's final argument , Nicholas Denyer

6. Beauty of the body, nobility of soul: the pursuit of love in Plato's Symposium , Alexnader Nehamas

7. Eros, philosophy, and tyranny , Dominic Scott

8. Virgil's sacred duo: Phaedrus's Symposium speech and Aeneid IX , Robert Wardy

9. Plato on war , Angela Hobbs

10. Language in the cave , Verity Harte

11. Metaspeleology , Malcolm Schofield

12. Why no Platonistic Ideas of artefacts? , Sarah Broadie

13. Plato on what is not , Noboru Notomi

14. The soul as an inner principle of change: the basis of Aristotle's psychological naturalism , Thomas Johansen

15. Aristotle's De Interpretatione 8 is about ambiguity , Susanne Bobzien

16. Sextan scepticism , Jonathan Barnes

17. The wife of Philinus, or the doctors' dilemma: medical signs and cases and non- deductive inference , G. E. R. Lloyd

18. Self-refutation and the sorites , R. J. Hankinson

19. Ideas leap barriers: the value of historical studies to philosophy , Richard Sorabji

Contributors:Mary Margaret McCabe (King's College London)

John M. Cooper (Princeton University)

Melissa Lane (University of Cambridge)

David Sedley (University of Cambridge)

Nicholas Denyer (University of Cambridge)

Alexander Nehamas (Princeton University)

Dominic Scott (University of Cambridge)

Robert Wardy (University of Cambridge)

Angela Hobbs (University of Warwick)

Verity Harte (Yale)

Malcolm Schofield (University of Cambridge)

Sarah Broadie (St Andrews)

Noboru Notomi (Keio University)

Thomas Johansen (University of Oxford)

Susanne Bobzien (Yale)

Jonathan Barnes (Sorbonne)

G. E. R. Lloyd (University of Cambridge)

R. J. Hankinson (University of Texas)

Richard Sorabji (University of Oxford)