Roman philosophy developed from Greek
Hellenistic philosophy,chiefly of the Academic, Stoic and Epicurean schools.
In 155 BCE anembassy of Athenian philosophers so impressed its Roman audiencesthat Roman philosophy can be said to have developed from that event.Mark Morford makes the huge output of the Roman philosophicalauthors (notably Cicero, Lucretius and Seneca) manageable for readersunfamiliar with the field, quoting extensively from original texts, inreadable and accurate translations. He introduces figures such asEpictetus and Marcus Aurelius, whose names are well known butwhose works can be hard to read, and others including the poets Manil-ius, Lucan and Persius, and the philosopher Musonius, who were signif-icant in the tradition of Roman philosophy.
The Roman Philosophers is the ideal route to understanding thisimportant era in the history of thought.
Mark Morford is Professor of Classics at the University of Vir-ginia and at Ohio State University.
He is the author of books on theNeostoic scholar Justus Lipsius and the Roman Stoic poets Lucan andPersius. He is also the co-author of Classical Mythology, and teaches and researches at Smith College,Northampton, Massachusetts. THE ROMANPHILOSOPHERS
From the time of Cato the Censor to the death of Marcus Aurelius. Mark Morford.
LONDON. 2002. Routledge, London
In 155 BCE anembassy of Athenian philosophers so impressed its Roman audiencesthat Roman philosophy can be said to have developed from that event.Mark Morford makes the huge output of the Roman philosophicalauthors (notably Cicero, Lucretius and Seneca) manageable for readersunfamiliar with the field, quoting extensively from original texts, inreadable and accurate translations. He introduces figures such asEpictetus and Marcus Aurelius, whose names are well known butwhose works can be hard to read, and others including the poets Manil-ius, Lucan and Persius, and the philosopher Musonius, who were signif-icant in the tradition of Roman philosophy.
The Roman Philosophers is the ideal route to understanding thisimportant era in the history of thought.
Mark Morford is Professor of Classics at the University of Vir-ginia and at Ohio State University.
He is the author of books on theNeostoic scholar Justus Lipsius and the Roman Stoic poets Lucan andPersius. He is also the co-author of Classical Mythology, and teaches and researches at Smith College,Northampton, Massachusetts. THE ROMANPHILOSOPHERS
From the time of Cato the Censor to the death of Marcus Aurelius. Mark Morford.
LONDON. 2002. Routledge, London
CONTENTS
Philosophia Togata
The arrival of the Greek philosophers in Rome
Cicero and his contemporaries
Lucretius and the Epicureans
Philosophers and poets in the Augustan Age
Seneca and his contemporaries
Stoicism under Nero and the Flavians
From
Epictetus to Marcus Aurelius
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