The Stoic tradition from antiquity to the early middle ages.

The Stoic tradition from antiquity to the early middle ages. / Volume 1, : Stoicism in classical Latin literature / / by Marcia L. Colish.

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Superior document:Studies in the History of Christian Traditions
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Colish, Marcia L.,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, New York ;, Kobenhavn : : E. J. Brill,, [1990]
©1990
Year of Publication:1990
Language:English
Series:Studies in the History of Christian Traditions
Physical Description:1 online resource (471 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Preface to the Paperback Edition
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE: STOICISM IN ANTIQUITY
  • I. Historical Introduction
  • II. The Teachings of the Stoics
  • A) Physics
  • 1. Cosmology
  • 2. Psychology
  • 3. Natural Law, Logoi Spermatikoi, Divination, Theodicy, Free Will
  • B) Ethics
  • 1. Slavery, Sexual Equality
  • 2. The Cosmopolis, the Active and Contemplative Life, Friendship
  • 3. Vice and Virtue, The Passions, Apatheia
  • C) Logic
  • 1. Theory of Knowledge
  • 2. Dialectic, the Categories
  • 3. Language, Grammar, Literary Theory
  • CHAPTER TWO: CICERO
  • I. Life and Writings
  • II. The Critical Background
  • III. Rhetorical Theory
  • IV. Political Theory
  • V. Epistemology
  • VI. Theology and Cosmology
  • VII. Ethics
  • VIII. Conclusion
  • CHAPTER THREE: THE SATIRISTS
  • I. Horace
  • II. Persius
  • III. Juvenal
  • CHAPTER FOUR: THE EPIC POETS
  • I. Vergil
  • II. Lucan
  • III. Statius
  • IV. Silius Italicus
  • CHAPTER FIVE: HISTORIANS, LESSER POETS, SCHOLIASTS, PEDAGOGUES AND ENCYCLOPEDISTS
  • I. The Historians
  • A) Sallust
  • B) Livy
  • C) Tacitus
  • II. Minor Poets: Manilius
  • III. The Scholiasts
  • A) Servius
  • B) Macrobius
  • IV. The Grammarians
  • A) Varro
  • B) Nigidus Figulus
  • C) Lesser and Later Grammarians
  • V. Rhetoricans, Dialecticians, and other Pedagogues
  • A) Quintilian
  • B) Augustine
  • C) Martianus Capella
  • D) Cassiodorus
  • VI. The Encyclopedists: Aulus Gellius
  • CHAPTER SIX: STOICISM IN ROMAN LAW
  • I. Historiographical Introduction
  • II. The Development of Roman Jurisprudence
  • III. Definitions of Abstract Legal Principles
  • IV. Legal Principles in Practice
  • V. Legal Reforms
  • VI. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Bibliographical Addendum
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects
  • Errata.

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