Sophie Aubert-Baillot

Far from being confined to a closed circle of professionals, philosophy in the Roman age irrigates texts of all kinds (rhetorical, historical, poetical, dramatic), through reminiscences, allusions, quotations, deformations and rewritings. This book examines the centrality of philosophy in scholarly life, from the beginning of the imperial era to the dawn of Late Antiquity, in the Roman as well as Greek world. Who are the authors who, even though they do not claim to be disciples of a school o ...