This edition of volume 1 in the series Rutgers University Studies
in Classical Humanities concerns Hellenistic ethics. Its particular
focus is the compendium of Stoic and Peripatetic ethics attributed
to Arius Didymus, court philosopher to the Roman emperor Caesar
Augustus. Arius was admired in antiquity for his Consolatio
addressed to Livia, Augustus' wife, on the death of her son Drusus.
He was also known for having advised Augustus to spare the
inhabitants of Alexandria when that city fell to the army of
Augustus. Arius was, then, an important advisor to a powerful
emperor; he held the position that Plato dreamed of and Kant
recommended. He advised the ruler of the Mediterranean world and
practiced an ethics based on his knowledge of Hellenistic
philosophy. That knowledge is discussed in On Stoic and Peripatetic
Ethics.
Prior to the publication of On Stoic and Peripatetic Ethics,
Arius was best known in the English-speaking world for fragments
concerning physical philosophy. There were some works in German and
Italian but discussion in English was meager and largely
inconsequential. Within the English-speaking world, there is now a
significant and growing body of scholarly literature on Arius'
compendium. Far from supplanting the present volume, this body of
literature underlines the importance of the volume and builds on
issues raised in it.
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