Studies in Stoicism
ISBN: 9780199695850 | 0199695857
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 5/19/2013
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This important volume fulfills one of Peter Brunt's (1917 - 2005) last wishes: a collection of his most important papers in the area of scholarship that had occupied him in his earliest years of research, and which largely absorbed his attention after his retirement from the Camden Chair of Roman History at Oxford University in 1982. Brunt was interested primarily in Stoicism in the Roman period, and his chief concern was the practical influence of its ethical teaching on political and social life. Although his investigations were historical, t... MORE
Editors' Introduction Miriam Griffin & Alison Samuels
1. Chrysippus on Practical Morality
2. Political Attitudes of the Old Stoa
3. Morality and Social Convention in Stoic Thought
4. Aspects of the social thought of Dio Chrysostom and the Stoics
5. Panaetius in De Officiis
6. Cicero's Officium in the Civil War
7. Stoicism and the Principate
8. High Ranking Stoics under the Principate
9. From Epictetus to Arrian
10. Marcus Aurelius in his Meditations
11. Marcus Aurelius and Slavery
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P. A. Brunt was formerly Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford.
Miriam Griffin is Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.
Alison Samuels is Associate Lecturer at the Open University.
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