From Epicurus to Epictetus: Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy

by A. A. Long

Overview

A. A. Long, one of the world's leading writers on ancient philosophy, presents eighteen essays on the philosophers and schools of the Hellenistic and Roman periods—Epicureans, Stoics, and Sceptics. The discussion ranges over four centuries of innovative and challenging thought in ethics and politics, psychology, epistemology, and cosmology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199279128
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/23/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	9.16(w) x 6.32(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

A. A. Long is a Professor in the Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley. He has been a visiting professor at many other European universities, including most recently appointment as Belle van Zuylen Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utrecht. His other books include Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics (which has been translated into eight languages), the two-volume source book, The Hellenistic Philosophers (co-authored with David Sedley), Stoic Studies, and Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life (OUP).

Table of Contents

PrefaceAcknowledgementsCitations and AbbreviationsPart One: General1. Hellenistic ethics and philosophical power2. Hellenistics ethics as the art of lifePart Two: Scepticism3. Aristotle and the history of Greek scepticism4. Timon: Pyrrhonist and satirist5. Arcesilaus in his time and place6. Scepticism about gods in Hellenistic philosophy7. Astrology: arguments pro and contraPart Three: Epicureanism8. Chance and laws of nature in Epicureanism9. Lucretius and the Epicurean self10. Pleasure and social utility—the virtues of being EpicureanPart Four: Early Stoicism11. Zeno's epistemology and Plato's Theaetetus12. Stoic psychology and the elucidation of language13. The Stoics on world-Conflagration and everlasting recurrencePart Five: Cicero, and Roman Stoicism14. Cicero's Plato and Aristotle15. Cicero's politics in De officiis16. Stoic philosophers on persons, property ownership and community17. Seneca on the self: why now? 18. Epictetus on understanding and managing emotionsBibliographyIndex of subjectsIndex locorum

Editorial Reviews

"[T]his survey cannot do justice to the depth of Long's contributions over the decades, either in the form of this stimulating collection of essays, or in the many other ways that he has helped to make Hellenistic philosophy a required subject for every student of classics and philosophy."—Sara Ahbel-Rappe, The Classical Review

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