The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-815268-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 977 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of classics, ancient history, philosophy and the history of ideas, the history of psychological ideas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gill, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Gill is Professor of Ancient Thought, University of Exeter.