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M.F. Burnyeat

M.F. Burnyeat has returned to Robinson College, Cambridge after ten years as senior research fellow in philosophy at All Souls. He is the author of The Theaetetus of Plato, among other books.

Originally published 17 October 2002

Excuses for Madness

  • Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity by William Harris

The solution, therefore, is to moderate anger so as to avoid the excesses of Achilles, and to train people to be angry on the right occasions only, in the appropriate manner and degree. Which might mean very angry indeed, especially on the battlefield. [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

  • The Original Sceptics: A Controversy edited by Myles Burnyeat and Michael Frede (1997)
  • The Theaetetus of Plato by Myles Burnyeat, translation by M.J. Levett (1990)
  • Notes on Eta and Theta of Aristotle’s “Metaphysics” (1984)
  • The Skeptical Tradition (editor) (1984)

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In the LRB archive

Other Lives · 22 February 2007

  • Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching and Influence by Christoph Riedweg, translated by Steven Rendall
  • Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A Brief History by Charles Kahn  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Diary: M.F. Burnyeat on the Siberian concept of theft · 19 February 2004

subscriber-only content By the Dog · 7 August 2003

  • The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues by Ruby Blondell

Excuses for Madness · 17 October 2002

  • Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity by William Harris

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 not available in archive Art and Mimesis in Plato’s ‘Republic’ · 21 May 1998

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