General Introduction
Part I Canon
Chapter 1 Canon: The Evidence
1.1 Data from the Papyri
1.2 The Significance of the Data from the Papyri
1.2.1 General Remarks
1.2.2 Spatial Homogeneity inside Egypt
1.2.3 Chronology and Continuity
1.2.4 Education and Scholarship, Curation and Discard
1.3 Out of Egypt
1.3.1 The Internal Evidence of the Papyri
1.3.2 The TLG Evidence
1.3.3 The Evidence of the Portraits
1.3.4 The Codices and the Big Library
1.4 Adjusting the Sample
1.4.1 Bringing in the Adespota
1.4.2 Considerations of Sample Bias
1.5 The Ancient Greek Canon: Conclusions
Chapter 2 Canon in Practice: The Polis of Letters
2.1 Introduction
2.1.1 Setting the Questions...
2.1.2 ...And Theory
2.2 The Polis of Letters: Structure
2.2.1 Genre/Author/Work: The Works beneath the Author
2.2.2 Genre/Author/Work: The Genre above the Author
2.2.3 The Topology of Ancient Literature
2.2.4 The Polis of Letters
2.3 The Polis of Letters: History
2.3.1 Becoming an Author: What Did It Take?
2.3.2 The Making of the Athenian Canon: Chronological Data
2.3.3 The Invention of the Brand in Early Greek Philosophy and Literature
2.3.4 The Tyranny of Athens over Greece
Part II Space
Chapter 3 Space, the Setting: The Making of an Athens-against-Alexandria Mediterranean
3.1 A Note on Measuring Cities
3.2 The Unlikelihood of an Enduring Center: Cities in Transit
3.3 The Road to Alexandria
3.3.1 Alexandria and the Scientific Mediterranean
3.3.2 Courts and Canons
before and after Chaeronea
3.3.3 Alexandrian Generations
3.4 The Road to Athens
3.4.1 Before Athens: The Rise of Philosophical Spatial Organization
3.4.2 Foundations of Athens
Chapter 4 Space in Action: When Worlds Diverge
4.1 Alexandria: A Literary Survey
4.1.1 Alexandria: General Comments
4.1.2 Alexandria: Vignettes
4.1.3 Alexandria: A Formula
4.2 Athens: "Beneath Literature"?
4.2.1 A Contrast: Outside Athens
4.2.2 A Contrast: Before Athens
4.2.3 The Routinization of Socrates
4.3 The View from Alexandria: What Did Alexandria Know about Philosophy?
4.3.1 The Exact Sciences
4.3.2 Medicine
4.3.3 The Thinness of Contact
4.3.4 A Close-Up: Aratus
4.4 The View from Athens: What Did Athens Know about Science?
4.4.1 General Observations and Historical Background: Philosophy on Science
4.4.2 The Stoa and Medicine
4.4.3 The Stoa and the Mixed Exact Sciences
4.4.4 Mathematical Notes
4.4.5 Interim Conclusion
4.5 Coda to Hellenism: When Worlds Converge
4.5.1 Exhibit Number One: Posidonius
4.5.2 Coda to Hellenism: The Sciences
4.5.3 Coda to Hellenism: Philosophy
4.5.4 Coda to Hellenism: Literature.