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The passionate intellect : essays on the transformation of classical traditions : presented to Professor I.G. Kidd &#160;Ayres, Lewis., Kidd, I. G., 1995&#160;Ian Kidd, of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, has long been known as a world-class scholar of ancient philosophy and of Posidonius, in particular. Through his long struggle with the fragments of Posidonius, Kidd has done more than any other scholar of ancient philosophy to dispel the myth of "Pan-Posidonianism." He has presented a clearer picture of the Posidonius to whom we may have access. The bulk of this volume is built around the theme of Kidd's own inaugural lecture at St. Andrews, "The Passionate Intellect." Many of the contributions follow this theme through by examining how individual people and texts influenced the direction of various traditions. Many of the papers naturally concentrate on ancient philosophy and its legacy. Others deal with ancient literary theory, history, poetry, and drama. Most of the papers deal with their subjects at some length and are significant contributions in their own right.(Text by the editor)&#160;Table of Contents:&#160;Bibliography of I.G. KiddGreeks and the Passionate Intellect - Ian Kidd Poetic Rhythms in the Myth of the Soul - Kenneth J. Dover Plato, Imagination and Romanticism - S. Halliwell Tradition and Innovation in the Transformation of Socrates' Divine Sign - Mark Joyal [actual symbol not reproducible] in Plato's Cratylus - David B. Robinson Counting Plato's Principles - R. W. Sharples Pindar and the Victory Ode - Chris Carey Euripides: Ion and Phoenissae - Elizabeth M. Craik Roman Mind and the Power of Fiction - J. S. Richardson Did Thucydides Write for Readers or Hearers? - Shigetake Yaginuma Aenesidemus versus Pyrrho: Il fuoco scalda "per natura" (Sextus M. VIII 215 e XI 69) - Fernanda Decleva Caizzi Theophrastus, no. 84 FHS&#38;G: There's Nothing New Here! - William W. Fortenbaugh Alexandria, Syene, Meroe: Symmetry in Eratosthenes' Measurement of the World - A. S. Gratwick Seneca's Natural Questions - Changing Readerships - Harry M. Hine Crates of Mallos, Dionysius Thrax and the Tradition of Stoic Grammatical Theory - Richard Janko Aenesidemus and the Academics - Jaap Mansfeld Pathology of Ps.-Hippocrates, On Ancient Medicine - Robin Waterfield Discipline of Self-knowledge in Augustine's De trinitate Book X - Lewis Ayres Melanchthon's First Manual on Rhetorical Categories in Criticism of the Bible - C. J. Classen "A Kind of Warmth": Some Reflections on the Concept of "Grace" in the Neoplatonic Tradition - John Dillon Ausonius at Prayer - R. P. H. Green Philosophy of the Codification of Law in Fifth Century Constantinople and Victorian Edinburgh - Jill Harries