Sara Brill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3979811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Brill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Brill |
| SIGNATURE | BRILL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre de recherches sur la pensée antique |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Plato on how (not) to be Born
This paper explores the language of birth in Plato’s dialogues via the conceptual framework of natality, with a focus on Plato’s interest in the question: to what are humans committed on the basis of their status as born? I argue that natality provides a powerful conceptual tool for understanding Plato’s ethical theorizing, as vividly demonstrated in the instructions to the about-to-be-born provided in a passage from the Timaeus (41d4-42e4), and …
The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy
Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece
Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece
Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life
Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life studies Aristotle’s understanding of the political character of human intimacy via an examination of the zoological frame informing his political theory. It argues that the concept of shared life, i.e. the forms of intimacy that arise from the possession of logos and the capacity for choice, is central to human political partnership, and serves to locate that life within the broader context of living beings…
Antiquities Beyond Humanism
Countering an unflagging modernist infatuation with the new, Antiquities beyond Humanism maps out the ground for a richer and more sustained encounter with Greco-Roman antiquity, excavating an ante-humanism that nonetheless does not seek any kind of return to a pre-humanist arcadia. The volume arises from a commitment to actively engage the ancient philosophical tradition as a powerful field through which to tackle some of the most urgent questio…
Second Sailing: Alternative Perspectives on Plato, edited by Debra Nails and Harold Tarrant
Greek Philosophy in the Twenty-first Century
This article addresses contemporary efforts to understand how the earliest practitioners of philosophy conceived of the philosophic life. It argues that, for Plato, the concept of bios was a central, animating, and structuring object of philosophic inquiry. Concentration on the imagery Plato employed to draw bios into the purview of philosophic contemplation and choice points to interpretative avenues that further the aim of treating the dialogue…
The Geography of Finitude: Myth and Earth in Plato’s Phaedo
Plato's use of afterlife myths is often viewed as an abandonment of rational discourse for a coercive practice designed to persuade citizens to be concerned about the condition of their souls by appealing to their worst fears about the afterlife. But such interpretations overlook the frequently critical tenor of Plato's myths. In this paper I develop the claim that Plato appeals to muthos as a means of critiquing various specific logoi by focusin…
Aphrodite’s Wrath: Eros in Euripides°s Hippolytus
Alive and Sleepless: The Politics of Immortality in Republic X
The discussion of immortality in Republic X is a much-maligned text whose function in the dialogue has frequently been drawn into question. This paper argues that the discussion addresses the insufficiency of the analogy between vice and disease that is established in Book IV and is challenged in Book IX by an account of tyranny which attributes to the tyrant a viciousness defying reduction to disease. It also argues that the discussion’s demonst…
Diagnosis and the Divided Line: Pharmacological Concerns in Plato’s Republic
From the care Plato takes in describing the excellence of the doctor in book 3 to the characterization of various pathological elements in the regimes he describes in book 8, the Republic teems with references to medical terms and concepts. The following investigates the breadth of the influence of medicine on the Republic. I argue that a medical vocabulary proves indispensable to indicating the relationship between philosophy and politics that t…
Antiquities Beyond Humanism
Countering an unflagging modernist infatuation with the new, Antiquities beyond Humanism maps out the ground for a richer and more sustained encounter with Greco-Roman antiquity, excavating an ante-humanism that nonetheless does not seek any kind of return to a pre-humanist arcadia. The volume arises from a commitment to actively engage the ancient philosophical tradition as a powerful field through which to tackle some of the most urgent questio…
Diagnosis and the Divided Line: Pharmacological Concerns in Plato’s Republic
From the care Plato takes in describing the excellence of the doctor in book 3 to the characterization of various pathological elements in the regimes he describes in book 8, the Republic teems with references to medical terms and concepts. The following investigates the breadth of the influence of medicine on the Republic. I argue that a medical vocabulary proves indispensable to indicating the relationship between philosophy and politics that t…
Aphrodite’s Wrath: Eros in Euripides°s Hippolytus
Alive and Sleepless: The Politics of Immortality in Republic X
The discussion of immortality in Republic X is a much-maligned text whose function in the dialogue has frequently been drawn into question. This paper argues that the discussion addresses the insufficiency of the analogy between vice and disease that is established in Book IV and is challenged in Book IX by an account of tyranny which attributes to the tyrant a viciousness defying reduction to disease. It also argues that the discussion’s demonst…
The Geography of Finitude: Myth and Earth in Plato’s Phaedo
Plato's use of afterlife myths is often viewed as an abandonment of rational discourse for a coercive practice designed to persuade citizens to be concerned about the condition of their souls by appealing to their worst fears about the afterlife. But such interpretations overlook the frequently critical tenor of Plato's myths. In this paper I develop the claim that Plato appeals to muthos as a means of critiquing various specific logoi by focusin…
Greek Philosophy in the Twenty-first Century
This article addresses contemporary efforts to understand how the earliest practitioners of philosophy conceived of the philosophic life. It argues that, for Plato, the concept of bios was a central, animating, and structuring object of philosophic inquiry. Concentration on the imagery Plato employed to draw bios into the purview of philosophic contemplation and choice points to interpretative avenues that further the aim of treating the dialogue…
Second Sailing: Alternative Perspectives on Plato, edited by Debra Nails and Harold Tarrant
Antiquities Beyond Humanism
Countering an unflagging modernist infatuation with the new, Antiquities beyond Humanism maps out the ground for a richer and more sustained encounter with Greco-Roman antiquity, excavating an ante-humanism that nonetheless does not seek any kind of return to a pre-humanist arcadia. The volume arises from a commitment to actively engage the ancient philosophical tradition as a powerful field through which to tackle some of the most urgent questio…
Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life
Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life studies Aristotle’s understanding of the political character of human intimacy via an examination of the zoological frame informing his political theory. It argues that the concept of shared life, i.e. the forms of intimacy that arise from the possession of logos and the capacity for choice, is central to human political partnership, and serves to locate that life within the broader context of living beings…
Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece
Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece
Plato on how (not) to be Born
This paper explores the language of birth in Plato’s dialogues via the conceptual framework of natality, with a focus on Plato’s interest in the question: to what are humans committed on the basis of their status as born? I argue that natality provides a powerful conceptual tool for understanding Plato’s ethical theorizing, as vividly demonstrated in the instructions to the about-to-be-born provided in a passage from the Timaeus (41d4-42e4), and …
The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy
Classical Philosophy and Thought (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)