On Stoic and Peripatetic Ethics: The Work of Arius Didymus

Abstract

Providing the only full-length study of the compendium of Greek philosophy attributed to Didymus, court philosopher to the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus, this volume elucidates Stoic and ethics for classicists and philosophers. authors provide careful textual analysis of important passages by this synthesizer of the major schools of Greek thought. Essays include translations of major passages. Contents and Contributors: Charles H. Kahn, Arius as a Doxographer; David E. Hahm, The Diaeretic Method and the Purpose of Arius' Doxography; Anthony A. Long, Arius Didymus and the Exposition of Stoic Ethics; Margaret E. Reesor, On the Stoic Goods in Stobaeus, Eclogue 2; George B. Kerferd, Two Problems Concerning Impulses; Ian G. Kidd, Euemptosia-Proneness to Disease; Pamela M. Huby, Peripatetic Definitions of Happiness; Robert W. Sharpies, The Classification of Goods; Herwig Goregemanns, Oikiosis in Didymus; William W. Fortenbaugh, Arius, Theophrastus, and the Eudemian Ethics.

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