From Epicurus to Epictetus

Sara Ahbel-Rappe, The Classical Review ...stimulaating collection of essays...[Long] has helped to make Hellenistic philosophy a required subject for every student of classics and philosophy

A. A. Long is a Professor in the Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley. He has been a visiting professor at many other European universities, including most recently appointment as Belle van Zuylen Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utrecht. His other books include Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics (which has been translated into eight languages), the two-volume source book, The Hellenistic Philosophers (co-authored with David Sedley), Stoic Studies, and Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life (OUP).

Preface; Acknowledgements; Citations and Abbreviations; PART ONE: GENERAL; 1. Hellenistic ethics and philosophical power; 2. Hellenistics ethics as the art of life; PART TWO: SCEPTICISM; 3. Aristotle and the history of Greek scepticism; 4. Timon: Pyrrhonist and satirist Timon: Pyrrhonist and Timon: Pyrrhonist and satirist Timon: Pyrrhonist and satirist Timon: Pyrrhonist and satirist; 5. Arcesilaus in his time and place; 6. Scepticism about gods in Hellenistic philosophy; 7. Astrology: arguments pro and contra; PART THREE: EPICUREANISM; 8. Chance and laws of nature in Epicureanism; 9. Lucretius and the Epicurean self; 10. Pleasure and social utility - the virtues of being Epicurean; PART FOUR: EARLY STOICISM; 11. Zeno's epistemology and Plato's Theaetetus; 12. Stoic psychology and the elucidation of language; 13. The Stoics on world-Conflagration and everlasting recurrence; PART FIVE: CICERO, AND ROMAN STOICISM; 14. Cicero's Plato and Aristotle; 15. Cicero's politics in De officiis; 16. Stoic philosophers on persons, property ownership and community; 17. Seneca on the self: why now?; 18. Epictetus on understanding and managing emotions; Bibliography; Index of subjects; Index locorum