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1281From Epicurus to Epictetus: studies in Hellenistic and Roman philosophyOxford University Press. 2006.A. A. Long, one of the world's leading writers on ancient philosophy, presents eighteen essays on the philosophers and schools of the Hellenistic and Roman periods--Epicureans, Stoics, and Sceptics. The discussion ranges over four centuries of innovative and challenging thought in ethics and politics, psychology, epistemology, and cosmology.
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118Epictetus: a Stoic and Socratic guide to lifeOxford University Press. 2002.The philosophy of Epictetus, a freed slave in the Roman Empire, has been profoundly influential on Western thought: it offers not only stimulating ideas but practical guidance in living one's life. A. A. Long, a leading scholar of later ancient philosophy, gives the definitive presentation of the thought of Epictetus for a broad readership. Long's fresh and vivid translations of a selection of the best of Epictetus' discourses show that his ideas are as valuable and striking today as they were a…Read more
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48What 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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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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45Marcello 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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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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35The modes of scepticism. Ancient texts and modern interpretationsJournal of the History of Philosophy 26 (3): 474-476. 1988.
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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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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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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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28Posidonio nei placita di Platone secondo Diogene Laerzio iii (review)The Classical Review 22 (3): 408-409. 1972.
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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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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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20Plato's First Interpreters (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 41 (1): 121-122. 2003.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 41.1 (2003) 121-122 [Access article in PDF] Harold Tarrant. Plato's First Interpreters. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. viii + 263. Cloth, $55.00. This is Tarrant's third book on the ancient Platonist tradition, following his Scepticism or Platonism? (1985) and Thrasyllan Platonism (1993). In those earlier volumes his focus was on the first centuries bc and ad. Here his scope is mu…Read more
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20The 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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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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18Colloquium 7: Eudaimonism, Divinity, and Rationality in Greek Ethics1Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 19 (1): 123-143. 2004.
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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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10European 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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