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The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy provides a thorough exploration of Roman philosophy as a valuable study in its own right. Topics covered include ethnicity, cultural identity, literary originality, the environment, Roman philosophical figures, epistemology, and ethics.
List of contents
- Preface
- Myrto Garani, David Konstan, and Gretchen Reydams-Schils
- List of Contributors
- PART I. THE ROMAN PHILOSOPHER: AFFILIATION, IDENTITY, SELF, AND OTHER
- 1: Italic Pythagoreanism in the Hellenistic Age
- Phillip Sidney Horky
- 2: Epicurean Orthodoxy and Innovation: From Lucretius to
- Diogenes of Oenoanda
- Pamela Gordon
- 3: Ethical Argument and Epicurean Subtext in Horace, Odes 1.1 and 2.16
- Gregson Davis
- 4: Seneca and Stoic Moral Psychology
- Gretchen Reydams-Schils
- 5: Marcus Aurelius and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises
- John Sellars
- 6: Apuleius and Roman Demonology
- Jeffrey Ulrich
- 7: Philosophers and Roman Friendship
- David Konstan
- 8: Debate or Guidance? Cicero on Philosophy
- Malcolm Schofield
- PART II. WRITING AND ARGUING ROMAN PHILOSOPHY
- 9: The Epicureanism of Lucretius
- Tim O'Keefe
- 10: Cicero and the Evolution of Philosophical Dialogue
- Matthew Fox
- 11: The Stoic Lesson: Cornutus and Epictetus
- Michael Erler
- 12: Persius's Paradoxes
- Aaron Kachuck
- 13: Plutarch
- George Karamanolis
- 14: Parrh¿sia: Dio, Diatribe, and Philosophical Oratory
- Dana Fields
- 15: Consolation
- James Ker
- 16: The Shape of the Tradition to Come: Academic Arguments in Cicero
- Orazio Cappello
- 17: Persius on Stoic Poetics
- Claudia Wiener
- PART III. INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF ROMAN PHILOSOPHY
- 18: Translation
- Christina Hoenig
- 19: Roman Philosophy in Its Political and Historiographical Context
- Ermanno Malaspina and Elisa Della Calce
- 20: Rhetoric
- Erik Gunderson
- 21: Self and World in extremis in Roman Stoicism
- James I. Porter
- 22: Medicine
- David Leith
- 23: Sex
- Kurt Lampe
- 24: Time
- Duncan F. Kennedy
- 25: Death
- James Warren
- 26: Environment
- Daniel Bertoni
- PART I V. AFTER ROMAN PHILOSOPHY: TRANSMISSION AND IMPACT
- 27: Roman Presocratics: Bio-Doxography in the Late Republic
- Myrto Garani
- 28: Reading Aristotle at Rome
- Myrto Hatzimichali
- 29: Christian Ethics: The Reception of Cicero in Ambrose's De officiis
- Ivor J. Davidson
- 30: Augustine's Reception of Platonism
- Anne-Isabelle Bouton-Touboulic
- 31: Roman Quasity: A Matrix of Byzantine Thought and History
- Anthony Kaldellis
- 32: Latin Neoplatonism: The Medieval Period
- Agnieszka Kijewska
- 33: Transmitting Roman Philosophy: The Renaissance
- Quinn Griffin
- 34: "The Art of Self-Deception": Libertine Materialism and Roman Philosophy
- Natania Meeker
- Index
About the author
Myrto Garani is Associate Professor of Latin Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She is the author of Empedocles Redivivus, co-editor with David Konstan of The Philosophizing Muse, and co-editor with A. N. Michalopoulos and S. Papaioannou of Intertextuality in Seneca's Philosophical Writings.
David Konstan is Professor of Classics at New York University. He is the author of Friendship in the Classical World, Beauty, In the Orbit of Love, and The Origin of Sin.
Gretchen Reydams-Schils is Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame and holds concurrent appointments in Classics, Philosophy, and Theology. She is the author of The Roman Stoics and Calcidius on Plato's Timaeus.
Summary
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy provides a thorough exploration of Roman philosophy as a valuable study in its own right. Topics covered include ethnicity, cultural identity, literary originality, the environment, Roman philosophical figures, epistemology, and ethics.
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This volume represents a magnificent treatment of a major period of European intellectual history... [It] provides a comprehensive overview of Roman philosophy, but it does much more than that. It invites a reflection on the broader nature of what Roman philosophy actually is and considers a manifold range of sources, including some more often considered literary, rather than philosophical. The volume makes a cogent argument for Roman philosophy as a distinctive phenomenon and a worthy object of study in its own right, rather than merely a poor derivative of a superior Greek original.
