The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought
ISBN13: 9780199564378ISBN10: 019956437X
Paperback,
544 pages
May 2009,
In Stock
Price:
$55.00 (06)Description
Christopher Gill offers a new analysis of what is innovative in Hellenistic - especially Stoic and Epicurean - philosophical thinking about selfhood and personality. His wide-ranging discussion of Stoic and Epicurean ideas is illustrated by a more detailed examination of the Stoic theory of the passions and a new account of the history of this theory. His study also tackles issues about the historical study of selfhood and the relationship between philosophy and literature, especially the presentation of the collapse of character in Plutarch's Lives, Senecan tragedy, and Virgil's Aeneid. As all Greek and Latin is translated, this book presents original ideas about ancient concepts of personality to a wide range of readers.Features
- Explores themes and issues concerning selfhood and personality, and about the history and reception of ancient ideas in antiquity, which are of current intellectual and scholarly interest
- Offers new insights on a Hellenistic-Roman theory - the Stoic theory of the passions - now recognized as exceptionally important
- Includes a chapter on literature (Virgil's Aeneid) and its relationship to philosophy
