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6The Passions in Roman Thought and LiteratureCambridge University Press. 1997.Essays by an international team of scholars in Latin literature and ancient philosophy explore the understanding of emotions (or 'passions') in Roman thought and literature. Building on work on Hellenistic theories of emotion and on philosophy as therapy, they look closely at the interface between ancient philosophy (especially Stoic and Epicurean), rhetorical theory, conventional Roman thinking and literary portrayal. There are searching studies of the emotional thought-world of a range of writ…Read more
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34Stoicism - A. A. Long: Stoic Studies. Pp. xvi + 309. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1996. £37.50/$59.95. ISBN: 0-521-48263-1 (review)The Classical Review 48 (1): 90-92. 1998.
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28J.-B. Gourinat: Les stoïciens et l''me. (Philosophies, 75.) Pp. 126. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1996. Paper, frs. 45. ISBN: 2-13-047808-5 (review)The Classical Review 48 (1): 212-212. 1998.
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18Personhood and personality: the four-personae theory in Cicero, De Officiis IOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 6 169-99. 1988.
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1Stoicism and EpicureanismIn Peter Goldie (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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35The Stoic Theory of Ethical Development:In What Sense is Nature a Norm?In Matthias Lutz-Bachmann & Jan Szaif (eds.), Was Ist Das Für den Menschen Gute? / What is Good for a Human Being?: Menschliche Natur Und Güterlehre / Human Nature and Values, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 101-125. 2004.
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12GALEN. S.P. Mattern The Prince of Medicine. Galen in the Roman Empire. Pp. xxiv + 334, maps, pls. New York: Oxford University, 2013. Cased, £20, US$29.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-976767-0 (review)The Classical Review 65 (1): 85-87. 2015.
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55.1 cynicismIn Roger Crisp (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 93. 2013.
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49Marcus Aurelius: Meditations, Books 1-6 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2013.Christopher Gill provides a new translation and commentary on the first half of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, and a full introduction to this unique and remarkable work: a reflective diary or notebook by a Roman emperor, whose content is based on Stoic philosophy but presented in a highly distinctive way.
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86Cynicism and stoicismIn Roger Crisp (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2013.This chapter discusses the ethical theories of Cynics and Stoics. Cynicism traces its origins to Diogenes of Sinope, the most colourful and outrageous of all such founders of philosophical movements. The core Cynic doctrines articulate the principles embodied in Diogenes' way of life. The central theme is that of following nature, understood as leading a life of extreme primitiveness or self-chosen bestiality. Stoicism offers an alternative to Aristotle, who has been the main Classical source of…Read more
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The transformation of Aristotle's Ethics in Roman philosophyIn Jon Miller (ed.), The Reception of Aristotle's Ethics, Cambridge University Press. 2012.