Death and immortality played a central role in Greek and Roman thought, from Homer and
early Greek philosophy to Marcus Aurelius. In this book AG Long explains the significance of …

Belief, is the fortuitous product of retirement. The windfall of an unforeseen teaching
opportunity, and a precious gift of time, free of pastoral and administrative responsibilities of …

The middle of the second until the middle of the first century BCE is one of the most creative
periods in the history of human thought, and an important part of this was the interaction …

The Hellenistic era refers to the period between the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE)
and the Battle of Actium (31 BCE), where the Roman leader Octavian defeated the last …

This book provides a study of regret (metameleia) in the moral psychology of Plato, Aristotle,
and the Stoics. It was important for all these philosophers to insist that regret is a …

Is it possible to overcome grief after years of mourning? What should a Roman woman do to
regain control of her thoughts? This book–which is the first commentary in English on …

This volume, edited by René Brouwer and Emmanuele Vimercati, deals with the debate
about fate, providence and free will in the early Imperial age. This debate is rekindled in the …

In Saving One Another: Philodemus and Paul on Moral Formation in Community Justin Reid
Allison compares how the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus and the Christian apostle …

This book offers a new explanation for Paul's puzzling use of λογικὴ λατρεία (Rom 12.1).
Based on a detailed investigation of ancient philosophical parallels, it argues that Paul here …

In any discussion of the Johaninneliterature in a Greek context, the first choice concerns the
aspects of Greek culture to be considered. In a trajectory that continues Tertullian's (c. 160 …