Brill's Companion to Musonius Rufus

This ground-breaking volume offers the first extensive discussion of Musonius Rufus’ thought on its own terms. Each of the surviving discourses and the fragments receives individual and comprehensive attention, with a specific focus on the most important philosophical, philological and social issues that shape each text. This wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary volume establishes Musonius as an independent and autonomous Stoic thinker, and opens up new avenues of enquiry into his work. It i...