This volume reasserts the significance of Roman philosophy by exploring how the Romans developed sophisticated forms of philosophical discourse shaped by their own history, concepts, and values, as well as, crucially, by the Latin language.
This volume reasserts the significance of Roman philosophy by exploring how the Romans developed sophisticated forms of philosophical discourse shaped by their own history, concepts, and values, as well as, crucially, by the Latin language.
Gareth D. Williams is Professor of Classics at Columbia University and a specialist in Latin literature of the early empire. Katharina Volk is Professor of Classics at Columbia University and a specialist in Latin literature and Roman culture.
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* Contents * Contributors * Preface * Introduction * Part I * 1. Philosophy and philosophi: From Cicero to Apuleius * Harry Hine * Part II * 2. Roman Pythagoras * Katharina Volk * 3. Philosophy Is in the Streets * James E. G. Zetzel * 4. To See and to Be Seen: On Vision and Perception in Lucretius and Cicero * Tobias Reinhardt * 5. Teaching Pericles: Cicero on the Study of Nature * Gretchen Reydams-Schils * Part III * 6. Tyrants, Fire, and Dangerous Things Andrew M. Riggsby * 7. Precept(or) and Example in Seneca * Matthew Roller * 8. True Greatness of Soul in Seneca's De constantia sapientis * Yelena Baraz * 9. Minding the Gap: Seneca, the Self, and the Sublime * Gareth D. Williams * 10. The Emotional Intelligence of Epicureans: Doctrinalism and Adaptation in Seneca's Epistles * Margaret Graver * Part IV * 11. "You're Playing You Now ": Helvidius Priscus as a Stoic Hero * Wolfgang-Rainer Mann * 12. Platonizing Latin: Apuleius' Phaedo * Richard Fletcher * 13. Why Ancient Skeptics Don't Doubt the Existence of the External World: Augustine and the Beginnings of Modern Skepticism * Katja Maria Vogt * Works Cited
* Contents * Contributors * Preface * Introduction * Part I * 1. Philosophy and philosophi: From Cicero to Apuleius * Harry Hine * Part II * 2. Roman Pythagoras * Katharina Volk * 3. Philosophy Is in the Streets * James E. G. Zetzel * 4. To See and to Be Seen: On Vision and Perception in Lucretius and Cicero * Tobias Reinhardt * 5. Teaching Pericles: Cicero on the Study of Nature * Gretchen Reydams-Schils * Part III * 6. Tyrants, Fire, and Dangerous Things Andrew M. Riggsby * 7. Precept(or) and Example in Seneca * Matthew Roller * 8. True Greatness of Soul in Seneca's De constantia sapientis * Yelena Baraz * 9. Minding the Gap: Seneca, the Self, and the Sublime * Gareth D. Williams * 10. The Emotional Intelligence of Epicureans: Doctrinalism and Adaptation in Seneca's Epistles * Margaret Graver * Part IV * 11. "You're Playing You Now ": Helvidius Priscus as a Stoic Hero * Wolfgang-Rainer Mann * 12. Platonizing Latin: Apuleius' Phaedo * Richard Fletcher * 13. Why Ancient Skeptics Don't Doubt the Existence of the External World: Augustine and the Beginnings of Modern Skepticism * Katja Maria Vogt * Works Cited
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