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Studies in Stoicism

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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, they required a complete mastery of the Stoic texts and doctrine. Basing his work almost entirely on the ancient sources, Brunt provides the most complete account and comparison available today not only of the ideas of the Roman Stoic moralists, but also of the political philosophy of the Greek founders of the Stoa. He believed that the ideas of the Stoics of the Roman period were essentially continuous with the thinking of the founders, and he did not accept that the concern with practical everyday morality in later Stoicism was a new development. Studies in Stoicism contains six unpublished and seven republished essays, the latter incorporating additions and changes which Brunt wished to be made. The papers have been integrated and arranged in roughly chronological order and by subject matter, with an accessible lecture to the Oxford Philological Society serving as Brunt's own introduction.

Author Biography:

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
Release date Australia
March 28th, 2013
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Contributors
  • Edited by Alison Samuels
  • Edited by Miriam Griffin
Pages
528
Dimensions
162x240x33
ISBN-13
9780199695850
Product ID
19842228

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