Power and pleasure, virtues and vices

Edited by Dirk Baltzly, Dougal Blyth and Harold Tarrant
Auckland : University of Auckland, 2001

ISBN: 0958221154

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Book description
What is happiness? How is it related to pleasure? Is it within everyone's power to achieve? Or is the good life available only to those who are rich and powerful?

This volume contains penetrating studies of these topics in ancient philosophy deriving from two recent academic conferences of the Australasian Society for Ancient Philosophy devoted to specific themes: 'Pleasures, Pain and Power' (held at the University of Newcastle, NSW, in April 1997), and 'Virtues and Vices' (University of Auckland, New Zealand, in July 1999). All the papers included have been independently peer-reviewed and revised prior to being accepted for publication.

About the author
Dirk Baltzly is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Monash University, Melbourne. He has published articles on classical and hellenistic philosophy, as well as neoplatonism.

Dougal Blyth is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has published articles on Plato, Aristotle, and Aristophanes. His main interests are in ancient metaphysics and political philosophy.

Harold Tarrant is Professor of Classics at the University of Newcastle, NSW, and has published mainly on the Platonic tradition in antiquity.

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