Stoic Studies

by A. A. Long

Overview

The Graeco-Roman philosophy called Stoicism has become a major subject of research during the past three decades. In this book a leading scholar in the field assembles a dozen of his papers on Stoicism, focusing on three themes: ethics, psychology and the Stoics' interpretation of their intellectual tradition. The papers are distinctive in their accessibility and breadth of reference, both ancient and modern, and the collection has considerable thematic unity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521482639
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/26/1996
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.33(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

A. A. Long is Irving Stone Professor of Literature in the Department of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. His earlier works include Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics (California, second edition 1986) and, in collaboration with John Dillon, The Question of Eclecticism: Studies in Later Greek Philosophy (California, 1988).

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Socrates in Hellenistic philosophy
2 Heraclitus and Stoicism
3 Stoic readings of Homer
4 Dialectic and the Stoic sage
5 Arius Didymus and the exposition of Stoic ethics
6 The logical basis of Stoic ethics
7 Greek ethics after Macintyre and the Stoic community of reason 
8 Stoic eudaimonism 
9 The harmonics of Stoic virtue 
10 Soul and body in Stoicism 
11 Hierocles on oikeiosis and self-perception 
12 Representation and the self in Stoicism 
Bibliography
Index of subjects
Index of names
Index of passages cited

Editorial Reviews

"Readers who share Long's fascination with Stoicism will richly benefit from the careful study that this challenging collection of articles, which so trenchantly clarifies those theories and concepts, requires." William O. Stephens, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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