The Oxford handbook of Roman philosophy / edited by Myrto Garani, David Konstan, Gretchen Reydams-Schils.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Konstan, David, editor.

Garani, Myrto, 1975- editor.

Reydams-Schils, Gretchen, editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks

Oxford handbooks online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Handbook of Roman philosophy

Roman philosophy

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

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.

Contents:

Italic Pythagoreanism in the Hellenistic Age / Phillip Sidney Horky

Cicero and the Evolution of Philosophical Dialogue / Matthew Fox

The Stoic Lesson: Cornutus and Epictetus / Michael Erler

Persius's Paradoxes / Aaron Kachuck

Plutarch / George Karamanolis

Parrhēsia: Dio, Diatribe, and Philosophical Oratory / Dana Fields

Consolation / James Ker

The Shape of the Tradition to Come: Academic Arguments in Cicero / Orazio Cappello

Persius on Stoic Poetics / Claudia Wiener

Translation / Christina Hoenig

Roman Philosophy in Its Political and Historiographical Context / Ermanno Malaspina, Elisa Della Calce

Epicurean Orthodoxy and Innovation: From Lucretius to Diogenes Oenoanda / Pamela Gordon

Rhetoric / Erik Gunderson

Self and World in extremis in Roman Stoicism / James I. Porter

Medicine / David Leith

Sex / Kurt Lampe

Time / Duncan F. Kennedy

Death / James Warren

Environment / Daniel Bertoni

Roman Presocratics: Bio-Doxography in the Late Republic / Myrto Garani

Reading Aristotle at Rome / Myrto Hatzimichali

Christian Ethics: The Reception of Cicero in Ambrose's De officiis / Ivor J. Davidson

Ethical Argument and Epicurean Subtext in Horace, Odes 1.1 and 2.16 / Gregson Davis

Augustine's Reception of Platonism / Anne-Isabelle Bouton-Touboulic

Roman Quasity: A Matrix of Byzantine Thought and History / Anthony Kaldellis

Latin Neoplatonism: the Medieval Period / Agnieszka Kijewska

Transmitting Roman Philosophy: the Renaissance / Quinn Griffin

"The Art of Self-Deception": Libertine Materialism and Roman Philosophy / Natania Meeker

Debate or Guidance? Cicero on Philosophy / Malcolm Schofield

Seneca and Stoic Moral Psychology / Gretchen Reydams-Schils

Marcus Aurelius and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises / John Sellars

Apuleius and Roman Demonology / Jeffrey Ulrich

Philosophers and Roman Friendship / David Konstan

The Epicureanism of Lucretius / Tim O'Keefe.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 22, 2023).

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Print version :

ISBN:

9780197639832

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