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(Note: Loeb editions include the original Greek or Latin text with English translation on facing pages.]
Marcus Aurelius
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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MacKendrick, Paul. 1989. The Philosophical Books of Cicero. London: Duckworth. [Summaries of all Cicero’s philosophical works.]
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Walsh, P. G. 1997. Cicero: The Nature of the Gods. Oxford: Clarendon.
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Arius Didymus
Pomeroy, Arthur J. 1999. Arius Didymus, Epitome of Stoic Ethics: Text and Translation. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature.
Diogenes Laertius
Hicks, R. D. 1931. Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, Volume 2. Cambridge, MA: Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press. [Includes the biographies of the Stoic philosophers.]
Epictetus
(Note: ‘Enchiridion’, ‘Encheiridion’, ‘Handbook’, and ‘Manual’ all refer to the same work.)
Boter, Gerard. 1999. The Encheiridion of Epictetus & its Three Christian Adaptations: Transmission & Critical Editions. Leiden: Brill.
Bonforte, John. Epictetus: A Dialogue in Common Sense. New York: Philosophical Library. [Well paraphrased selections from the Discourses, The Handbook, and Fragments.]
Dobbin, Robert. 1998. Epictetus: Discourses Book 1. Oxford: Clarendon. [Includes commentary.]
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———. 1948. The Enchiridion. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Lobell, Sharon. 1995. Epictetus: The Art of Living. The Classic Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness: A New Interpretation. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco. [A free paraphrase of The Handbook.]
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———. 1991. Enchiridion. Amherst, NY: Prometheus.
Matheson, P. E. 1916. Epicterus: The Discourses and Manual. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Matson, Wallace I. 1998. Epictetus: Encheiridion. in Louis P. Pojman. ed. Classics of Philosophy: Volume 1, Ancient and Medieval. New York: Oxford University Press.
Oldfather, W. A. 1925, 1928. Epictetus: The Discourses as Reported by Arrian, The Manual, and Fragments. 2 vols. Cambridge, MA: Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press.
Rolleston, T. W. 1892. The Teaching of Epictetus: Being the ‘Encheiridion of Epictetus’, with Selections from the ‘Dissertations’ and ‘Fragments’. London: George Routledge.
White, Nicholas. 1983. Handbook of Epictetus. Indianapolis: Hackett.
Musonius Rufus
Lutz, Cora E. 1947. Musonius Rufus ‘The Roman Socrates’. Yale Classical Studies 10: 3–147.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Basore, J. W. 1928, 1932, 1935. Moral Essays. 3 vols. Cambridge, MA: Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press. [The complete Moral Essays.]
Campbell, Robin. 1969. Seneca: Letters from a Stoic. Penguin. [A selection from the Moral Letters.]
Cooper, John M. and J. F. Procopé. 1995. Seneca: Moral and Political Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Includes ‘On Anger’, ‘On Mercy’, ‘On the Private Life’, and ‘On Favours’.]
Costa, C. D. N. 1988. Seneca: 17 Letters. Warminster: Aris & Phillips. [A selection from the Moral Letters.]
———. 1994. Seneca: Four Dialogues. Warminster: Aris & Phillips. [Includes ‘The Good Life’, ‘On Tranquillity of Mind’, ‘On the Steadfastness of the Wise Man’, and ‘Consolation to Helvia’.]
———. 1997. Seneca: Dialogues and Letters. London: Penguin. [Includes ‘Consolation to Helvia’, ‘On Tranquillity of Mind’, ‘On Shortness of Life’, Moral Letters 24, 57, 79 and 110, and three short selections from Natural Questions.]
Gummere, Richard M. 1917, 1920, 1925. Seneca: Epistles. 3 vols. Cambridge, MA: Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press. [The complete Moral Letters.]
Hadas, Moses. 1958. The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters of Seneca. New York: Norton. [Includes ‘On Providence’, ‘On the Shortness of Life’, ‘On Tranquillity of Mind’, ‘Consolation to Helvia’, ‘On Clemency’, and a selection from the Moral Letters.]
Timothy, H. B. 1973. The Tenets of Stoicism, Assembled and Systematized, from the Works of L. Annaeus Seneca. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert.
Anthologies of Hellenistic Philosophy, including the Stoics
Inwood, Brad and L. P. Gerson. 1997. Hellenistic Philosophy: Introductory Readings. 2nd edition. Indianapolis: Hackett. [Readings from the main schools: Epicureanism, Stoicism and Scepticism.]
Irwin, Terence. 1999. Classical Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Readings and commentary. Focuses on mainly the pre-Hellenistic period of Plato and Aristotle, but includes a few useful Stoic texts.]
Long, A. A. and D. N. Sedley. 1987. The Hellenistic Philosophers, Volume 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Readings from the main schools: Epicureanism, Stoicism, Scepticism, and the Academics. Includes commentaries on the readings. This is the standard primary source text. Volume 2 contains the original Greek and Latin.]
Malherbe, Abraham J. 1986. Moral Exhortation: A Greco-Roman Sourcebook. Philadelphia: Westminster Press.
Saunders, Jason L. ed. 1996. Greek and Roman Philosophy after Aristotle. New York: Free Press. [Readings from Epicureanism, Stoicism, Scepticism, Philo, Plotinus, and early Christian thought. Includes the complete P. E. Matheson translation of the Manual of Epictetus.]
Introductory Books on the Hellenistic Schools, including Stoicism
Kristeller, Paul Oskar. 1993. Greek Philosophers of the Hellenistic Age. trans. Gregory Woods. New York: Columbia University Press.
Long, A. A. 1986. Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics. 2nd ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Reale, Giovanni. 1985. A History of Ancient Philosophy: 3. The Systems of the Hellenistic Age. ed. & trans. John R. Catan. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
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Sandbach, F. H. 1989. The Stoics. London: Duckworth and Indianapolis: Hackett.
Sharples, R. W. 1996. Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics: An Introduction to Hellenistic Philosophy. London: Routledge.
Zeyl, Donald. ed. 1997. Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy. London: Fitzroy Dearborn.
Other Secondary Literature
Algra, Keimpe, et al. eds. 1999. The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Annas, Julia. 1992. Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
———. 1995. The Morality of Happiness. New York: Oxford University Press.
Arnold, E. Vernon, 1911. Roman Stoicism. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Becker, Lawrence C. 1998. A New Stoicism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Bobzien, Susanne. 1998. Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy. Oxford: Clarendon.
Bonhöffer, Adolf Friedrich. 1996. The Ethics of the Stoic Epictetus. trans. William O. Stephens. New York: Peter Lang.
Branham, R. Bracht and Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé. eds. The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and its Legacy. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Braund, Susanna Morton and Christopher Gill. eds. 1977. The Passions in Roman Thought and Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Brunschwig, Jacques and Martha C. Nussbaum, eds. Passions and Perceptions: Studies in Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Brunschwig, Jacques and Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd. eds. 2000 Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Bauer, Bruno. 1998. Christ and the Caesars: The Origin of Christianity from Romanized Greek Culture. trans. Frank E. Schacht. Charleston, SC: Charleston House.
Cooper, John M. 1999. Reason and Emotion: Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Christensen, Johnny. 1962. An Essay on the Unity of Stoic Philosophy. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.
Dillon, J. M. and A. A. Long. eds. 1988. The Question of ‘Eclecticism’: Studies in Later Greek Philosophy. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Dudley, Donald R. 1998 [1937] A History of Cynicism: From Diogenes to the 6th Century AD. with a foreword and bibliography by Miriam Griffin. London: Bristol Classical Press.
Edelstein, Ludwig. 1966. The Meaning of Stoicism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Engberg-Pedersen, Troels. 1990. The Stoic Theory of Oikeiosis: Moral Development and Social Interaction in Early Stoic Philosophy. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.
———. 2000. Paul and the Stoics. Edinburgh: T&T Clark.
Foucault, Michel. 1986. The Care of the Self (Volume 3 of the History of Sexuality). trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Pantheon Books.
Graver, Margaret Robson (1996) Therapeutic Reading and Seneca’s Moral Epistles. Ann Arbor, MI:UMI Dissertation Services. [PhD dissertation, Brown University: UMI number 9704034]
Griffin, Miriam. 1992. Seneca: A Philosopher in Politics. Oxford: Clarendon.
———. and Jonathan Barnes. eds. Philosophia Togata I: Essays on Philosophy and Roman Society. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Gould, Josiah B. 1970. The Philosophy of Chrysippus. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Gummere, Richard M. 1963. Seneca the Philosopher and His Modern Message. New York: Cooper Square.
Hadot, Pierre. 1995. Philosophy as a Way of Life. Oxford: Blackwell.
———. 1998. The Inner Citadel: The Mediations of Marcus Aurelius. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Ierodiakonou, Katerina, ed. 1999. Topics in Stoic Philosophy. Oxford: Clarendon.
Inwood, Brad. 1985. Ethics and Human Action in Early Stoicism. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Irwin, T. H. 1990 Virtue, Praise and Success: Stoic Responses to Aristotle. . The Monist 73–1: 59–79.
Kimpel, Ben. 1985. Stoic Moral Philosophies: Their Counsel for Today. New York: Philosophical Library.
Laks, André and Malcolm Schofield. eds. 1995. Justice and Generosity: Studies in Hellenistic Social and Political Philosophy (Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium Hellenisticum. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lesses, Glen. 1989. Virtue and the Goods of Fortune in Stoic Moral Theory. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 7: 95–127.
———.1993. Austere Friends: The Stoics and Friendship. Apeiron 26: 57–75.
Long, A. A. ed. 1996a. Problems in Stoicism. London: Athlone.
———. 1996b. Stoic Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
More, Paul Elmer. 1923. Hellenistic Philosophies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Motto, Anna Lydia and John R. Clark. 1993. Essays on Seneca. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
Motto, Anna Lydia. 2001. Further Essays on Seneca. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
Navia, Luis E. 1996. Classical Cynicism: A Critical Study. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
———. 1998. Diogenes of Sinope: The Man in the Tub. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Nussbaum, Martha C. 1994. The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Powell, J. G. F. 1995. Cicero the Philosopher: Twelve Papers. Oxford: Clarendon.
Reesor, Margaret E. 1989. The Nature of Man in Early Stoic Philosophy. London: Duckworth.
Rist, J. M. 1969. Stoic Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
———. ed. 1978. The Stoics. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Rowe, Christopher and Malcolm Schofield. eds. The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rutherford, R. B. 1989. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: A Study. Oxford: Clarendon.
Sayre, Farrand. 1948 The Greek Cynics. Baltimore: J. H. Furst.
Schofield, Malcolm and Gisela Striker. eds. The Norms of Nature: Studies in Hellenistic Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Schofield, Malcolm. 1999 [1991]. The Stoic Idea of the City. with a new foreward by Martha C. Nussbaum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Sihvola, Juha and Troels Engberg-Pedersen. eds. 1998. The Emotions in Hellenistic Philosophy. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Sorabji, Richard. 2000. Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Stephens, William O. 1990. Stoic Strength: An Examination of the Ethics of Epictetus. [PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania: UMI number 9026654]
Stephens, William O. 1996. Epictetus on How the Stoic Sage Loves. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 14: 193–210.
Stockdale, James Bond. 1993. Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus’s Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior. Stanford: Hoover Institution/Stanford University.
Stowell, Melanie Celine. 1999. Stoic Therapy of Grief: A Prolegomenon to Seneca’s ‘Ad Marciam, de Consolatore’. Ann Arbor, MI:UMI Dissertation Services. [PhD dissertation, Cornell University: UMI number 9941194]
Striker, Gisela. 1990. Ataraxia: Happiness as Tranquillity. The Monist 73–1: 97–110. also in Striker 1996.
———. 1991. Following Nature: A Study in Stoic Ethics. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 9: 1–73. also in Striker 1996.
———. 1996. Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
White, Nicholas P. 1979. The Basis of Stoic Ethics. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 83: 143–78.
———. 1990. Stoic Values. . The Monist 73–1: 42–58.
Xenakis, Jason. 1969. Epictetus: Philosopher-Therapist. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
Some books about Greek and Roman Culture
Dupont, Florence. 1992. Daily Life in Ancient Rome. Oxford: Blackwell.
Joint Association of Classical Teachers. 1984. The World of Athens: An Introduction to Classical Athenian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Jones, Peter and Keith Sidwell. 1997. The World of Rome: An Introduction to Roman Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Paoli, Ugo Enrico. 1990. Rome: Its People, Life and Customs. London: Bristol Classical Press.
Shelton, Jo-Ann. 1998. As the Romans Did: A Sourcebook in Roman Social History. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press.