Seven essays provide new and detailed explorations of the complex relationship between Plato and the Greek and Roman Stoic traditions.

This book explores the process during 100 BCE-100 CE by which dualistic Platonism became the reigning school in philosophy.

A leading philosopher shows that if the pursuit of happiness is the question, Epicureanism is the answer Epicureanism has a reputation problem, bringing to mind

Plato was central both to the genesis of Stoic theory and to subsequent debates within the Stoa. These essays provide new and detailed explorations of the compl

The Greeks and Romans have been charged with destroying the ecosystems within which they lived. In this book, however, M. D. Usher argues rather that we can fin