Die Stoa zählt zu den wichtigsten philosophischen Schulen der Antike. Ihr kommt aber nicht
nur eine historisch-geistesgeschichtliche Bedeutung zu-bis heute ist das Denken der Stoa in …

" With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus
drew steadily nearer to that truth by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a …

The lectures on which this short book is based were delivered at Harvard University in April
of 2011, at the invitation of the Department of the Classics. I am grateful to the department …

This volume is the first monograph devoted to the philosophy of Taurus of Beirut, and
provides a long-awaited analysis of his texts and their first English translation. Through close …

This book offers a fresh analysis of the account of Peripatetic ethics in Cicero's On Ends 5,
which goes back to the first-century BCE philosopher Antiochus of Ascalon. Georgia Tsouni …

1. An error that is to be avoided when we talk about the rebirth of Platonism in the early
Imperial age is thinking that it was a unified and systematic process, as if all the …

The essays collected in this volume focus on the role played by the philosophy of the
Hellenistic, or post-Aristotelian age (from the school of the successors of Aristotle …

For too long, contemporary philosophers treated Cicero with disdain, thinking him at best a
source for the ideas and arguments of the Greek Hellenistic thinkers, not as a thinker worthy …

Plutarch (ca. 40 to ca. 120 ce), born in Chaeronea, in Boeotia, significantly received later in
life the full Roman name, L. Mestrius Plutarchus. He possibly traveled to Smyrna when …

In this chapter, I explore Galen's complex view of the role that nonrational motivation and
emotions play in a virtuous and fulfilling life. As has often been commented, Galen's position …