Stoic Studies

A. A. Long is Irving Stone Professor of Literature in the Department of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. His earlier works include Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics (California, second edition 1986) and, in collaboration with John Dillon, The Question of Eclecticism: Studies in Later Greek Philosophy (California, 1988).

• PrefaceAcknowledgements1 Socrates in Hellenistic philosophy2 Heraclitus and Stoicism3 Stoic readings of Homer4 Dialectic and the Stoic sage5 Arius Didymus and the exposition of Stoic ethics6 The logical basis of Stoic ethics7 Greek ethics after Macintyre and the Stoic community of reason 8 Stoic eudaimonism 9 The harmonics of Stoic virtue 10 Soul and body in Stoicism 11 Hierocles on oikeiosis and self-perception 12 Representation and the self in Stoicism BibliographyIndex of subjectsIndex of namesIndex of passages cited

"Long's discussions enjoy consistently thorough contextualization; psychology cannot be understood without natural philosophy, nor dialectic without ethics, and Long's case studies show both that and how that is the case, in persuasive detail and with enviable clarity. The pieces fall into three subject areas: intellectual and cultural inheritance, ethics, and psychology." - Catherine Atherton, New College, Oxford "A. A. Long's Stoic Studies does far more than bring together a set of important papers on Stoicism. Read together, the papers in this collection paint two pictures. One is of the author and his broad-minded pursuit of an intellectual 'fascination,' a pursuit carried out with historical and literary rigour as well as considerable philosophical ingenuity. The other is of the Stoic school itself, emerging from a passion for Socratic arguments.... It is a long and remarkably rich philosophical history, and Tony Long has done a very great deal to help others feel its fascination." - Brad Inwood, University of Toronto "Long writes in a lucid, engaging way, even when treating difficult subjects or referring to complex scholarly and philosophical debates. He has a special gift for combining, in thirty pages or so, an illuminating survey of a topic with at least one sustained analysis of a key text or theory. As a result, this collection has a coherence and internal development that makes it comparable with a good monograph." - Christopher Gill, University of Exeter