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Informationen zum Autor David Sedley is Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College. His books include Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom (1998)! Plato's Cratylus (2003) and Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity (2007). He is also editor of The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy (2003). Klappentext This book reconstructs and evaluates the philosophy of a thinker who was uniquely influential among Romans of the first century BC. Zusammenfassung This state-of-the-art collection of studies will become the standard reference work on a figure whose importance to the history of philosophy is at last coming to be appreciated. It contains the first full guide to his testimonia in any modern language. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Antiochus' biography Myrto Hatzimichali; 2. Antiochus and the Academy Roberto Polito; 3. Antiochus and Asclepiades: medical and philosophical sectarianism at the end of the Hellenistic era Rebecca Flemming; 4. Antiochus as historian of philosophy David Sedley; 5. Antiochus' epistemology Charles Brittain; 6. Antiochus on contemplation and the happy life Georgia Tsouni; 7. Antiochus, Aristotle, and the Stoics on degrees of happiness T. H. Irwin; 8. Antiochus on social virtue Malcolm Schofield; 9. Antiochus on physics Brad Inwood; 10. Antiochus' metaphysics G. R. Boys-Stones; 11. The neutralizing argument: Carneades, Antiochus, Cicero Malcolm Schofield; 12. Varro and Antiochus David Blank; 13. Other followers of Antiochus Carlos Lévy; 14. Antiochus and Platonism Mauro Bonazzi; Appendix: a guide to the testimonies for Antiochus David Sedley; Bibliography.
