Roman Reflections

John Sellars, Language and Literature the quality of the papers is consistently high (the acknowledgements at the end of each chapter suggest that all underwent substantial review and revision before publication). They also cohere surprisingly well. Although not always explicitly so, many of the chapters inform one another. Taken together they offer a fine overview of both the ancient material and the concerns of current scholarship. All texts quoted are helpfully given in both Latin and English translation throughout. Anyone interested in Roman philosophy will want to have a copy of this book.

Gareth D. Williams is Professor of Classics at Columbia University and a specialist in Latin literature of the early empire. Katharina Volk is Professor of Classics at Columbia University and a specialist in Latin literature and Roman culture.

Contents ; Contributors ; Preface ; Introduction ; Part I ; 1. Philosophy and philosophi: From Cicero to Apuleius ; Harry Hine ; Part II ; 2. Roman Pythagoras ; Katharina Volk ; 3. Philosophy Is in the Streets ; James E. G. Zetzel ; 4. To See and to Be Seen: On Vision and Perception in Lucretius and Cicero ; Tobias Reinhardt ; 5. Teaching Pericles: Cicero on the Study of Nature ; Gretchen Reydams-Schils ; Part III ; 6. Tyrants, Fire, and Dangerous Things Andrew M. Riggsby ; 7. Precept(or) and Example in Seneca ; Matthew Roller ; 8. True Greatness of Soul in Seneca's De constantia sapientis ; Yelena Baraz ; 9. Minding the Gap: Seneca, the Self, and the Sublime ; Gareth D. Williams ; 10. The Emotional Intelligence of Epicureans: Doctrinalism and Adaptation in Seneca's Epistles ; Margaret Graver ; Part IV ; 11. <"You're Playing You Now>": Helvidius Priscus as a Stoic Hero ; Wolfgang-Rainer Mann ; 12. Platonizing Latin: Apuleius' Phaedo ; Richard Fletcher ; 13. Why Ancient Skeptics Don't Doubt the Existence of the External World: Augustine and the Beginnings of Modern Skepticism ; Katja Maria Vogt ; Works Cited