The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy provides a thorough exploration of Roman philosophy as a valuable study in its own right. Topics covered include ethnicity, cultural identity, literary originality, the environment, Roman philosophical figures, epistemology, and ethics.

Preface Myrto Garani, David Konstan, and Gretchen Reydams-Schils List of Contributors PART I. THE ROMAN PHILOSOPHER: AFFILIATION, IDENTITY, SELF, AND OTHER 1. Italic Pythagoreanism in the Hellenistic Age Phillip Sidney Horky 2. Epicurean Orthodoxy and Innovation: From Lucretius to Diogenes of Oenoanda Pamela Gordon 3. Ethical Argument and Epicurean Subtext in Horace, Odes 1.1 and 2.16 Gregson Davis 4. Seneca and Stoic Moral Psychology Gretchen Reydams-Schils 5. Marcus Aurelius and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises John Sellars 6. Apuleius and Roman Demonology Jeffrey Ulrich 7. Philosophers and Roman Friendship David Konstan 8. Debate or Guidance? Cicero on Philosophy Malcolm Schofield PART II. WRITING AND ARGUING ROMAN PHILOSOPHY 9. The Epicureanism of Lucretius Tim O'Keefe 10. Cicero and the Evolution of Philosophical Dialogue Matthew Fox 11. The Stoic Lesson: Cornutus and Epictetus Michael Erler 12. Persius's Paradoxes Aaron Kachuck 13. Plutarch George Karamanolis 14. Parrh=esia: Dio, Diatribe, and Philosophical Oratory Dana Fields 15. Consolation James Ker 16. The Shape of the Tradition to Come: Academic Arguments in Cicero Orazio Cappello 17. Persius on Stoic Poetics Claudia Wiener PART III. INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF ROMAN PHILOSOPHY 18. Translation Christina Hoenig 19. Roman Philosophy in Its Political and Historiographical Context Ermanno Malaspina and Elisa Della Calce 20. Rhetoric Erik Gunderson 21. Self and World in extremis in Roman Stoicism James I. Porter 22. Medicine David Leith 23. Sex Kurt Lampe 24. Time Duncan F. Kennedy 25. Death James Warren 26. Environment Daniel Bertoni PART IV. AFTER ROMAN PHILOSOPHY: TRANSMISSION AND IMPACT 27. Roman Presocratics: Bio-Doxography in the Late Republic Myrto Garani 28. Reading Aristotle at Rome Myrto Hatzimichali 29. Christian Ethics: The Reception of Cicero in Ambrose's De officiis Ivor J. Davidson 30. Augustine's Reception of Platonism Anne-Isabelle Bouton-Touboulic 31. Roman Quasity: A Matrix of Byzantine Thought and History Anthony Kaldellis 32. Latin Neoplatonism: The Medieval Period Agnieszka Kijewska 33. Transmitting Roman Philosophy: The Renaissance Quinn Griffin 34. "The Art of Self-Deception": Libertine Materialism and Roman Philosophy Natania Meeker Index

This volume represents a magnificent treatment of a major period of European intellectual history... [It] provides a comprehensive overview of Roman philosophy, but it does much more than that. It invites a reflection on the broader nature of what Roman philosophy actually is and considers a manifold range of sources, including some more often considered literary, rather than philosophical. The volume makes a cogent argument for Roman philosophy as a distinctive phenomenon and a worthy object of study in its own right, rather than merely a poor derivative of a superior Greek original.

"This volume represents a magnificent treatment of a major period of European intellectual history... [It] provides a comprehensive overview of Roman philosophy, but it does much more than that. It invites a reflection on the broader nature of what Roman philosophy actually is and considers a manifold range of sources, including some more often considered literary, rather than philosophical. The volume makes a cogent argument for Roman philosophy as a distinctive phenomenon and a worthy object of study in its own right, rather than merely a poor derivative of a superior Greek original." -- International Philosophical Quarterly

Myrto Garani is Associate Professor of Latin Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She is the author of Empedocles Redivivus, co-editor with David Konstan of The Philosophizing Muse, and co-editor with A. N. Michalopoulos and S. Papaioannou of Intertextuality in Seneca's Philosophical Writings. David Konstan is Professor of Classics at New York University. He is the author of Friendship in the Classical World, Beauty, In the Orbit of Love, and The Origin of Sin. 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 and Calcidius on Plato's Timaeus.

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