Plato and the Stoics

Seven essays provide new and detailed explorations of the complex relationship between Plato and the Greek and Roman Stoic traditions.

List of contents

Introduction A. G. Long; 1. Cardinal virtues: a contested Socratic inheritance Malcolm Schofield; 2. The Academy, the Stoics, and Cicero on Plato's Timaeus G. Reydams-Schils; 3. Chrysippus and Plato on the fragility of the head Jenny Bryan; 4. Plato and the Stoics on limits, parts and wholes Paul Scade; 5. Subtexts, connections and open opposition A. G. Long; 6. Seneca against Plato: Letters 58 and 65 George Boys-Stones; 7. Theôria and scholê in Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius: Platonic, Stoic or Socratic? Thomas Bénatouïl.

About the author

A. G. Long is Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews. His other books are Conversation and Self-Sufficiency in Plato (2013) and a translation, with David Sedley, of Plato: Meno and Phaedo (2010) for the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy series.

Summary

Stoics wrote against Plato, and yet Plato's influence on Stoicism was wide-ranging and profound. This book explores the Stoic reception of Plato from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius, and so addresses the relationship between a major philosopher and one of the most important philosophical movements.

Product details

• Authors: EDITED BY A. G. LONG, A. G. (University of St Andrews Long
• Assisted by: A. G. Long (Editor), A. G. (University of St Andrews Long (Editor), Long A. G. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781108436656
• ISBN: 978-1-108-43665-6
• No. of pages: 209
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE to c 500 CE