Дом восходящей философии. Рецензия на книгу: Paul Kalligas, Chloe Balla, Effie Baziotopoulou-Valavani, Vassilis Karasmanis (eds.), Plato’s Academy: Its Workings and Its History. Cambridge University Press, 2020

Платоновские исследования. 2020. Т. 13. № 2. С. 354–362.

Alieva O.

The reviewer notes that this volume is a substantial contribution to our understanding of the Greek intellectual history, and in several respects so. First, latest archeological evidence sheds new light on the physical organization of the first European school. Second, the book contains valuable insights concerning public representation of philosophy as a social practice. Third, Academy’s inner organization and “programme of studies” are discussed at length. Two points in particular deserve special attention. Mauro Bonazzi concludes that the Academy ceased its activities when Philo left Rome. Antiochus was never elected the head of the Academy after Philo (as John Glucker earlier demonstrated). It was Antiochus who created the image of Arcesilaus as a “dissident Academic”, but the very distinction into an Old Academy and a New Academy served Antiochus’ aims and, as Harold Tarrant shows in his respective chapter, shouldn’t be taken too uncritically. In a useful Appendix to the volume, one finds Philodemus’ Index Academicorum (Greek text and the first English translation), and Myrto Hatzimichali offers an illuminating analysis of this text within the context of the Hellenistic historiography.

Keywords: Платон, Plato, Platonism, платонизм, Академия Платона, Plato's Academy, Philodemus, Polemo, Carneades, Antiochus, Arcesilaus, Филодем, Полемон, Карнеад, Антиох из Аскалона, Аркесилай