The ethics of Philodemus / Voula Tsouna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsouna, Voula, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philodemus, approximately 110 B.C.-approximately 40 B.C--Ethics.

Philodemus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 350 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Voula Tsouna presents a comprehensive study of the ethics of the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus, who taught Virgil, influenced Horace, and was praised by Cicero. His works have only recently become available to modern readers, through the decipherment of a papyrus carbonized by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.Tsouna examines Philodemus' theoretical principles in ethics, his contributions to moral psychology, his method, his conception of therapy, and his therapeutic techniques. Part I begins with an outline of the fundamental principles of Philodemus' ethics in connection with the canonica

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I; Part II; References and Select Bibliography; Index; Index of Names; Index Locorum

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [312]-322) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-160880-7

0-19-964012-2

1-281-15492-X

9786611154929

0-19-153770-5

OCLC:

193889977