List of Figures Acknowledgements Note on the Text Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Use and Abuse of Antiquity for Life Part I. Encountering Ancient Practice 1. Situations 1. The Cosmology of Prudence/Cosmologie de la prudence Pierre Aubenque , translated by Cameron F. Coates and Khafiz Kerimov 2. The Pleasures of the Problem: Parmenides, Badiou, and Mathematics Becky Vartabedian 3. Foucault, Plato, Aristotle, and the Strangeness of Reflexivity Frederique Ildefonse 4. Stoicism and a Matter of Conscience Christelle Veillard 2.

Conjunctions 5. Plato's Lysis : The Dilemma of Friendship and Love Pierre Macherey , translated by David Maruzzella 6. Aristotle on the Practice of Life Sara Brill 7. Theory and Politics in Plato's Republic Adriana Caverero , translated by Paula Landerreche Cardillo 8. Aristophanic Comedy and Its Democratic Permutations: Fidelity in Spirit? Or in Content and Form? Michael Weinman Part II. Practices of Encountering Antiquity 3. Fragments 9. Forms of Memory Vlad Basarab 10.

Sapphic Foucault: Fragments of an Anthropocene Archive Lynne Huffer 11. Exiles and Deserts Casey Ford 12. Black Dionysius Andrés Fabián Henao Castro 4. Accumulations 13. Photographing (with) the Muses Lauren Guilmette and Rob Leib 14. How to Read the Nature of Things Thomas Nail 15. Eternal Recurrence and Racist Histories Ryan J. Johnson (in collaboration with Keshia Wall ) 16.

On Lucretius Brooke Holmes & Isabel Lewis.