Aulus Gellius

Holford‐Strevens, Leofranc

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“…For various aspects, see Clarke (1971), Dill (1905), Bowersock (1969), Holford-Strevens (1988), Kaster (1988), Zanker (1995), and Griffin (1996). More technical studies in Griffin and Barnes (1989) and the volumes of ANRW II.36.1-3.…”

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Review: Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life

Adamson¹

2003

Mind

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Index of Passages 291 General Index 303 end p.vii Preface The idea of writing this book began to crystallize while I was teaching a graduate seminar on Epictetus at Berkeley in the spring of 1999. My students were far more responsive to his Stoic discourses than I had dared to hope, and by the end of the semester I myself was thinking about little else. By a happy coincidence, I was about to begin a sabbatical year of research leave, generously assisted by grants from my university. My official project for this leave had not been a study of Epictetus, but now I knew that this was what I wanted to write, and so I set to work. Although the idea of this book arose only recently, Epictetus has been on or near my desk for more years than I care to recall. I have been fascinated by him ever since I began to work on Hellenistic philosophy, and I have incorporated him in much that I have previously published. But I had never devoted a whole course to Epictetus before, and I had never immersed myself in him completely. Like many others, I tended to read him piecemeal, concentrating on passages that bore on my general interests in Stoicism rather than trying to engage with his singular mind and arresting style for their own sake. Now, instead, I read him through in entirety several times. In doing so, I became especially interested in his educational strategies and his devotion to Socrates, and I also found myself increasingly impressed by the distinctive stamp of his Stoicism and by his remarkable personality. Quite coincidentally, excerpts of Epictetus were beginning to reach a large public through Tom Wolfe's brilliant novel A Man in Full. Reactions to that book in newspapers had shown that Epictetus' text, just by itself, was capable of touching modern nerves. Yet, there was no up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to Epictetus. All the more reason, I thought, to write a book that would offer a sufficiently end p.ix in-depth treatment in a manner that could attract new readers to him as well as those to whom he needs no introduction. That is what I have tried to do, with the strong encouragement of Peter Momtchiloff of Oxford University Press and his anonymous advisers, for whose advice at the planning and later stages I am most grateful. I do not presume any prior knowledge of Epictetus or Stoic philosophy, and I have liberally included my own translations of numerous passages, using these as the basis for all my detailed discussions. These excerpts are the most important part of the book, because its main purpose is to provide sufficient background and analysis to enable Epictetus to speak for himself. What he says, however, often stands in need of clarification and interpretation. Research on Epictetus has a long way to go. I hope I have contributed a number of fresh ideas, but it would defeat the purpose of this book if I defended them in the main text with a barrage of scholarship. At the end of chapters I append bibliographical details and provide guidelines on various details and points of controversy. My wa...

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Review: Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life

Adamson¹

2003

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“…Instead they build upon research that reviewed Roman state intervention in organizing the colonies (Crawford, 1995; Fentress, 2000a; Bispham, 2006; Bradley, 2006; Pelgrom, 2008). Fentress (2000a: 19) argued that Brown's (1980) reconstruction of Cosa as a ‘Little Rome’ was strongly coloured by the expectations based on the text of Aulus Gellius (16.13.8–9), writing in the second century ad (Holford-Strevens, 2003) some 400–500 years later, despite the archaeological evidence showing that early Cosa was a military camp. Pelgrom (2008: 368) suggested that we replace this fixed model with more localized models of settlement organization (for example, Stek and Pelgrom, 2014), especially given the lack of evidence for third-century settlement in the territories of new colonies (Fig.…”

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Pre-Colonial Latin Colonies and the Transition to the Mid-Republican Period in the Faliscan Area and South Etruria: Orientalizing, Archaic and Late Archaic Settlement and Funerary Evidence From the Nepi Survey

Rajala¹

2016

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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This paper discusses the survey evidence from the Orientalizing and Archaic settlement and funerary sites at Nepi (ancient Nepet), one of the first Latin colonies outside Latium adiectum. The comparison of its pre-Roman, pre-colonial developments to the Roman patterns from the Nepi Survey Project and the trends from other Latin colonies in southern Etruria allows the examination of the local effects of Roman colonialism. The evidence shows that Nepi seemed to develop as an independent city state in the Orientalizing period, peaked in the Archaic period and weakened before the capture of Veii in 396bc, making it easier to defeat. Rural settlement all but disappeared afterwards with similar hiatus apparent at the sister colony at Sutri as well. In the third centurybcthe first few villas near the town appeared as a sign of the establishment of a Roman settlement pattern. The extensive ‘rural colonization’ at Nepi, similarly to Sutri and Cosa, started only in the second centurybcwhen all southern Etruria had entered a colonial phase and could develop alongside Rome. Thus, Latin colonization disrupted earlier patterns and the colonies appear to have been originally outposts set up to secure new territory.

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“…11 Gellius claimed that his discussions were a shortcut to a general education for those too busy for much study, Preface, 11-12. On Aulus Gellius, see L. Holford-Strevens, 1988, esp. 27-32 (27) (rev.…”

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“In learned conversation”: Plutarch’s symposiac literature and the elusive authorial voice

Brenk¹

2009

Symposion and Philanthropia in Plutarch

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A navegação consulta e descarregamento dos títulos inseridos nas Bibliotecas Digitais UC Digitalis, UC Pombalina e UC Impactum, pressupõem a aceitação plena e sem reservas dos Termos e Condições de Uso destas Bibliotecas Digitais, disponíveis em https://digitalis.uc.pt/pt-pt/termos.Conforme exposto nos referidos Termos e Condições de Uso, o descarregamento de títulos de acesso restrito requer uma licença válida de autorização devendo o utilizador aceder ao(s) documento(s) a partir de um endereço de IP da instituição detentora da supramencionada licença.Ao utilizador é apenas permitido o descarregamento para uso pessoal, pelo que o emprego do(s) título(s) descarregado(s) para outro fim, designadamente comercial, carece de autorização do respetivo autor ou editor da obra.Na medida em que todas as obras da UC Digitalis se encontram protegidas pelo Código do Direito de Autor e Direitos Conexos e demais legislação aplicável, toda a cópia, parcial ou total, deste documento, nos casos em que é legalmente admitida, deverá conter ou fazer-se acompanhar por este aviso. AbstractThe Symposiacs offer a good entry point for understanding Plutarch's dialogues. Plato's, such as the Symposion, are often used as a model to interpret Plutarch's without consideration of the changed circumstances in the Imperial period. Also, toward the end of Plato's life, his dialogues became treatises in which the interlocutors are hardly important. Plutarch used no single character throughout his dialogues. Like Cicero he wanted to present the opinions of the philosophical schools, and often his own position is difficult to discern. The role and importance of various persons in the spirited intellectual discussions of the Symposiacs offer a clue to his intentions in the dialogues. At the same time, unlike his dialogues, his own persona appears frequently and with a surprising assertiveness. In some Symposiacs, especially the Ninth Book, as in The E at Delphoi and the Erotikos, he appears as fairly young, possibly a distancing technique. The Symposiacs in any case offered an opportunity to present his views in various shapes and sizes.

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Aulus Gellius

Cited by 254 publications

References 26 publications

Review: Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life

Review: Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life

Pre-Colonial Latin Colonies and the Transition to the Mid-Republican Period in the Faliscan Area and South Etruria: Orientalizing, Archaic and Late Archaic Settlement and Funerary Evidence From the Nepi Survey

“In learned conversation”: Plutarch’s symposiac literature and the elusive authorial voice

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