William W. Fortenbaugh is Emeritus Professor of Classics at Rutgers University, USA.

• PrefaceContributors1 Didymus’ Epitome of Peripatetic Ethics, Household Management, and Politics: An Edition with TranslationGeorgia Tsouni2 The Quest for an AuthorDavid E. Hahm3 Moral Virtue in Didymus’ Epitome of Peripatetic EthicsWilliam W. Fortenbaugh4 Intrinsic Worth of Others in the Peripatetic Epitome, Doxography CStephen A. White5 Two Conceptions of "Primary Acts of Virtue" in Doxography CJan Szaif6 Bodily and External Goods in Relation to Happiness Myrto Hatzimichali7 Didymus on Types of LifeWilliam W. Fortenbaugh8 Didymus’ Epitome of the Economic and Political Topic Eckart Schutrumpf9 Von Arnim, Didymus and Augustus: Three Related Notes on Doxography C Peter L. P. Simpson10 Seneca’s Peripatetics: Epistulae Morales 92 and the Stobaean Doxography C Margaret R. Graver

This volume is a welcome contribution to the study of Arius Didymus’ challenging compendium of Hellenistic ethics and only the second study to focus on this work since 1981. It offers a new edition of ‘section C’ on Peripatetic ethics, a discussion of the author’s identity, and a well-selected set of aspects examined by experts in the field, exploring various themes and connections with Aristotle’s works, ethical concepts such as virtue, the worth of others, external goods and types of life. The volume closes with a masterful essay in which Seneca’s Letter 85 is used as indirect evidence for Peripatetic ethics in the first century. While not all questions on this work can be resolved, this volume certainly assists in a more detailed understanding of the complexities, questions and transmission of Peripatetic ethics in the early Empire.- Han Baltussen, University of Adelaide, Australia