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The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy Myrto Garani (Professor of Latin Literature, Professor of Latin Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy By Myrto Garani (Professor of Latin Literature, Professor of Latin Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

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.

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy by Myrto Garani (Professor of Latin Literature, Professor of Latin Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Several decades of scholarship have demonstrated that Roman thinkers developed in new and stimulating directions the systems of thought they inherited from the Greeks, and that, taken together, they offer many perspectives that are of philosophical interest in their own right. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy explores a range of such Roman philosophical perspectives through thirty-four newly commissioned essays. Where Roman philosophy has long been considered a mere extension of Hellenistic systems of thought, this volume moves beyond the search for sources and parallels and situates Roman philosophy in its distinctive cultural context. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy emphasizes four features of Roman philosophy: aspects of translation, social context, philosophical import, and literary style. The authors adopt an inclusive approach, treating not just systematic thinkers such as Cicero and Augustine, but also poets and historians. Topics covered include ethnicity, cultural identity, literary originality, the environment, Roman philosophical figures, epistemology, and ethics.

About Myrto Garani (Professor of Latin Literature, Professor of Latin Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

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.

Table 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=esia: 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 IV. 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

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NGR9780199328383
9780199328383
0199328382
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy by Myrto Garani (Professor of Latin Literature, Professor of Latin Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
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Oxford University Press Inc
2023-05-12
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