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22The eclectic Pythagoreanism of Alexander PolyhistorIn Malcolm Schofield (ed.), Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the first century BC: new directions for philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 139. 2013.
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In and out of the stoa: Diogenes Laertius on ZenoIn Jenny Bryan, Robert Wardy & James Warren (eds.), Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2018.
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6Plotinus Ennead II.4 On matter: translation with an introduction and commentaryParmenides Publishing. 2022.A new translation, with an introduction and philosophical commentary, of Plotinus' Ennead II.4 On Matter, discussing the philosopher's view on intelligible beings and the nature of the physical world.
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31Posidonio nei placita di Platone secondo Diogene Laerzio iii (review)The Classical Review 22 (3): 408-409. 1972.
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11European and American PhilosophersIn Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Blackwell. 2017.Peter Abelard (1079–1142 ce) was the most wide‐ranging philosopher of the twelfth century. He quickly established himself as a leading teacher of logic in and near Paris shortly after 1100. After his affair with Heloise, and his subsequent castration, Abelard became a monk, but he returned to teaching in the Paris schools until 1140, when his work was condemned by a Church Council at Sens. His logical writings were based around discussion of the “Old Logic”: Porphyry's Isagoge, aristotle'S Categ…Read more
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7How Does Socrates' Divine Sign Communicate with Him?In Sara Ahbel‐Rappe & Rachana Kamtekar (eds.), A Companion to Socrates, Blackwell. 2005.
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3Plato and Hellenistic PhilosophyIn Hugh H. Benson (ed.), A Companion to Plato, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Orientation Plato in Stoicism Plato in Academic Scepticism Plato in early Pyrrhonism Plato in Epicureanism Conclusion.
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22Greek Models of Mind and SelfHarvard University Press. 2015.A. A. Long’s study of Greek notions of mind and human selfhood is anchored in questions of universal interest. What happens to us when we die? How is the mind or soul related to the body? Are we responsible for our own happiness? Can we achieve autonomy? Long shows that Greek thinkers’ modeling of the mind gave us metaphors that we still live by.
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35The modes of scepticism. Ancient texts and modern interpretationsJournal of the History of Philosophy 26 (3): 474-476. 1988.
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31Heraclides of Pontus H. B. Gottschalk: Heraclides of Pontus. Pp. vi + 178. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. £12.50The Classical Review 32 (02): 200-202. 1982.
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43Epicurean Psychology and Theology - David Konstan: Some Aspects of Epicurean Psychology. (Philosophia Antiqua, 25.) Pp. x + 83. Leiden: Brill, 1973. Paper, fl. 28. - Dietrich Lemke: Die Theologie Epikurs. Versuch einer Rekonstruktion. (Zetemata, 57.) Pp. 118. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1973. Paper, DM.25.50 (review)The Classical Review 26 (2): 215-217. 1976.
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50What is the Matter with Matter, According to Plotinus?Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 78 37-54. 2016.Modern science is not linguistically original in hypothesizing the existence of dark matter. For Plotinus, the matter that underlies all perceptible objects, is essentially obscure and describable only in the negative terms of what it lacks by way of inherent properties. In formulating this theory of absolute matter, Plotinus took himself to be interpreting both Plato and Aristotle, with the result that his own position emerges as a highly original and equivocal synthesis of this tradition. Plot…Read more
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49Marcello Gigante: Diogene Laerzio. Vite dei filosofi. Seconda edizione riveduta e accresciuta. . 2 vols. Pp. lxxvi + 320, 321–638. Rome–Bari: Laterza, 1976. Paper, L. 2,900 per vol (review)The Classical Review 30 (1): 152-152. 1980.
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47Hellenistic philosophyScribner. 1974.This comprehensive sourcebook makes available in the original Latin and Greek the principal extant texts required for the study of the Stoic, Epicurean and sceptical schools of philosophy. The material is organized by schools, and within each school topics are treated thematically. The volume presents the same texts (with some additional passages) as are translated in The Hellenistic Philosophers, Volume 1. The authors provide their own critical apparatus, and also supply detailed notes on the m…Read more
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21Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.11.03 (review)Bryn Mawr Classical Review 11 (3). 2002.Up to now scholars have not approached E[pictetus] as author, stylist, educator, and thinker, according to the eminent scholar of Stoicism Tony L[ong]. The aim of this book is to fill precisely this gap. L wants "to provide an accessible guide to reading E, both as a remarkable historical figure and as a thinker whose recipe for a free and satisfying life can engage our modern selves, in spite of our cultural distance from him" (2). This goal is met admirably. Not only does L succeed in presenti…Read more
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1The Hellenistic Philosophers. Vol. 1: Translations of the Principal Sources with Philosophical Commentary. Vol. 2 : Greek and Latin Texts with Notes and Bibliography. vol. 1 (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 52 (1): 134-135. 1990.
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29Sellars The Art of Living. The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy. Pp. x + 228. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. Cased, £42.50. ISBN: 0-7546-3667-4 (review)The Classical Review 56 (1): 81-82. 2006.
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19Plotinus. Myth, Metaphor, and Philosophical Practice By Stephen R.L. Clark University of Chicago Press, 2016, pp. xxi–344, £30 ISBN: 9780226565057 (review)Philosophy 93 (2): 323-326. 2018.
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Plotinus, Ennead 1.4 as Critique of Earlier EudaimonismOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 245-263. 2012.
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34The Art of Living. The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy (review)The Classical Review 56 (1): 81-82. 2006.
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14A Free Will: Origins of the Notion in Ancient Thought (edited book)University of California Press. 2011.Where does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? In Michael Frede's radically new account of the history of this idea, the notion of a free will emerged from powerful assumptions about the relation between divine providence, correctness of individual choice, and self-enslavement due to incorrect choice. Anchoring his discussion in Stoicism, Frede begins with Aristotle--who, he argues, had no notion of a free will--and ends with Aug…Read more
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Les philosophes hellénistiques, 3 volRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 192 (2): 248-248. 2002.
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