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The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy

Online ISBN:
9780197639832
Print ISBN:
9780199328383
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
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The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy

David Konstan (ed.),
David Konstan
(ed.)
Classics, New York University
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David Konstan is Professor of Classics at New York University. He is the author of Friendship in the Classical World (1997), The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature (2006), and most recently The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity (2022). He is a past president of the American Philological Association (now the Society for Classical Studies), and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an honorary fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Myrto Garani (ed.),
Myrto Garani
(ed.)
Latin Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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Myrto Garani is Associate Professor of Latin Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She is the author of Empedocles Redivivus: Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius (2007), coeditor with David Konstan of The Philosophizing Muse: The Influence of Greek Philosophy on Roman Poetry (2014), and coeditor with A. N. Michalopoulos and S. Papaioannou of Intertextuality in Seneca’s Philosophical Writings (2020). She is currently working on a monograph on Seneca’s Naturales quaestiones Book 3 (for the Pierides series) and a commentary on Lucretius’s De rerum natura 6 (for the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla series).

Gretchen Reydams-Schils (ed.)
Gretchen Reydams-Schils
(ed.)
Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame
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Gretchen Reydams-Schils is Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and holds concurrent appointments in Classics, Philosophy, and Theology. She is the author of The Roman Stoics; Self, Responsibility, and Affection (2005) and, most recently, Calcidius on Plato’s Timaeus: Greek Philosophy, Latin Reception, and Christian Contexts (2020). She directs the Notre Dame Workshop on Ancient Philosophy.

Published online:
22 March 2023
Published in print:
24 March 2023
Online ISBN:
9780197639832
Print ISBN:
9780199328383
Publisher:
Oxford University Press

Abstract

Several decades of scholarship by now have demonstrated that Roman thinkers have developed in new and stimulating directions the systems of thought they inherited from the Greeks, and that, taken together, they offer a range of perspectives that are of philosophical interest in their own right. This collection of essays pursues a maximally inclusive approach, covering not only authors such as Augustine but also poets or historians. It pays attention to the mode in which these works were written (giving rhetoric too its due) and their often conscious reflections on the process of translating, or transferring Greek ideas to Roman contexts.

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