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Studies in Stoicism (Hardcover)
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Studies in Stoicism (Hardcover)
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This important volume fulfills one of Peter Brunt's (1917 - 2005)
last wishes: a collection of his most important papers in the area
of scholarship that had occupied him in his earliest years of
research, and which largely absorbed his attention after his
retirement from the Camden Chair of Roman History at Oxford
University in 1982. Brunt was interested primarily in Stoicism in
the Roman period, and his chief concern was the practical influence
of its ethical teaching on political and social life. Although his
investigations were historical, they required a complete mastery of
the Stoic texts and doctrine. Basing his work almost entirely on
the ancient sources, Brunt provides the most complete account and
comparison available today not only of the ideas of the Roman Stoic
moralists, but also of the political philosophy of the Greek
founders of the Stoa. He believed that the ideas of the Stoics of
the Roman period were essentially continuous with the thinking of
the founders, and he did not accept that the concern with practical
everyday morality in later Stoicism was a new development. Studies
in Stoicism contains six unpublished and seven republished essays,
the latter incorporating additions and changes which Brunt wished
to be made. The papers have been integrated and arranged in roughly
chronological order and by subject matter, with an accessible
lecture to the Oxford Philological Society serving as Brunt's own
introduction.
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