On Stoic and Peripatetic Ethics: The Work of Arius Didymus (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities)

Providing the only full-length study of the compendium of Greek philosophy attributed to Arius Didymus, court philosopher to the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus, this volume elucidates Stoic and Peripatetic ethics for classicists and philosophers. The authors provide careful textual analysis of important passages by this synthesizer of the major schools of Greek thought. Essays include translations of major passages. Contents and Contributors: Charles H. Kahn, "Arius as a Doxographer"; David E. Hahm, "The Diaeretic Method and the Purpose of Arius' Doxography"; Anthony A. Long, "Arius Didymus and the Exposition of Stoic Ethics"; Margaret E. Reesor, "On the Stoic Goods in Stobaeus, Eclogue 2"; George B. Kerferd, "Two Problems Concerning Impulses"; Ian G. Kidd, "Euemptosia-Proneness to Disease"; Pamela M. Huby, "Peripatetic Definitions of Happiness"; Robert W. Sharpies, "The Peripatetic Classification of Goods"; Herwig Goregemanns, "Oikiosis in Arius Didymus"; William W. Fortenbaugh, "Arius, Theophrastus, and the Eudemian Ethics."