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Introduction Brad Inwood and James Warren; 1. Hellenistic medicine, Strato of Lampsacus, and Aristotle's theory of soul Sylvia Berryman; 2. Herophilus and Erasistratus on the h¿gemonikon David Leith; 3. Galen on soul, mixture and Pneuma Philip van der Eijk; 4. The partition of the soul: Epicurus, Demetrius Lacon, and Diogenes of Oinoanda Francesco Verde; 5. Cosmic and individual soul in early Stoicism Francesco Ademollo; 6. Soul, Pneuma and blood: the Stoic conception of the soul Christelle Veillard; 7. The Platonic soul, from the Early Academy to the first century CE Jan Opsomer; 8. Cicero on the soul's sensation of itself: Tusculans 1.49-76 J. P. F. Wynne; Bibliography; Indices.
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Brad Inwood is a Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Yale University, Connecticut. His major works include Ethics and Human Action in Early Stoicism (1985), The Poem of Empedocles, 2nd edition (2001), Reading Seneca: Stoic Philosophy at Rome (2005), Seneca: Selected Philosophical Letters (2007), Ethics after Aristotle (2014), and Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction (2018). He has edited or co-edited several volumes, including The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics (Cambridge, 2003), and from 2007 to 2015 he was the editor of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.James Warren is a Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He is the author of Epicurus and Democritean Ethics (Cambridge, 2002), Facing Death: Epicurus and his Critics (2004), Presocratics (2007), and The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists (Cambridge, 2014). He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism (2009), with Frisbee Sheffield, The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy (2014), and with Jenny Bryan and Robert Wardy, Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy (Cambridge, 2018).
