Commentary

• “Stoic Intermediates and the End for Man.”

  - Kidd, I.  “Stoic Intermediates and the End for Man” in A. A. Long (1971), 150-72., 1971.

• Problems in Stoicism

  - Arthur A. Long (ed.) Problems in Stoicism. London, 1971.
  Overview: –  A timely reappraisal of the notable contributions of the Greek Stoics to logic, metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. This collection of papers, half of which were given at the series of seminars on Stoicism at the Institute of Classical… More

• “The interpretation of Cicero’s De legibus.”

  - Elisabeth Rawson, “The interpretation of Cicero’s De legibus,” Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt 1.4: 334-56. (1985) Intellectual Life in the Late Roman Republic. Baltimore, Md., 1973.

• “The law of nature in Philo and Cicero.”

  - Richard A. Horsley, “The law of nature in Philo and Cicero,” Harvard Theological Review, 71: 35-59., 1978.
  Overview: –  “Christian Natural Law is the acceptance and reinterpretation according to Christian and ecclesiastical principles of Stoic Natural Law. …” Thus runs Troeltsch’s classic and influential formulation of the view that Stoicism… More

• “Politics and philosophy in Stoicism.”

  - Paul A. Vander Waerdt, “Politics and philosophy in Stoicism,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 9: 185-211., 1991.

• “Philosophical influence on Roman jurisprudence? The case of Stoicism and natural law.”

  - Paul A. Vander Waerdt, “Philosophical influence on Roman jurisprudence? The case of Stoicism and natural law,” ANRW 2.36.7: 4,851-900., 1994.

• “Natural law and natural right in post-Aristotelian philosophy: the Stoics and their critics.”

  - Phillip Mitsis,“Natural law and natural right in post-Aristotelian philosophy: the Stoics and their critics,” Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt 2.36.7 (1994): 4,812-50., 1994.

• Cicero the Philosopher: 12 Papers.

  - Jonathan G. F. Powell, (ed.) Cicero the Philosopher: 12 Papers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  Overview: –  Cicero may be best known as a politician, but he was also one of the few significant Roman writers of philosophy. Powell presents a new and exciting selection of current scholarly work on this neglected side of him, establishing Cicero… More

• “Natural law and poetic justice: a Carneadean debate in Cicero and Virgil.”

  - James E. G. Zetzel, “Natural law and poetic justice: a Carneadean debate in Cicero and Virgil,” Classical Philology, 91.4: 297-319., Chicago, 1996.

• “Socratic Cosmopolitanism: Cicero’s Critique and Transformation of the Stoic Ideal.”

  - Thomas L. Pangle, "Socratic Cosmopolitanism: Cicero's Critique and Transformation of the Stoic Ideal." Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 235-262., 1998.  

• The Stoic Idea of the City

  - Malcolm Schofield, The Stoic Idea of the City. Chicago, 1999.
  Overview: –  The Stoic Idea of the City offers the first systematic analysis of the Stoic school, concentrating on Zeno’s Republic. Renowned classical scholar Malcolm Schofield brings together scattered and underused textual evidence, examining… More

• The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy

  - Keimpe Algra, Jonathan Barnes, Jaap Mansfeld, and Malcolm Schofield (eds.) The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge, 1999.
  Overview: –  A full account of the philosophy of the Greek and Roman worlds from the last days of Aristotle (c. 320 BC) until 100 BC. Hellenistic philosophy, for long relatively neglected and unappreciated, has over the last decade been the object of a… More

• “Epicurean and Stoic political thought.”

  - Malcolm Schofield, “Epicurean and Stoic political thought,” in C. Rowe and M. Schofield, 435-56., 2000.

• “Were Cicero’s Laws the laws of Cicero’s Republic?”

  - Jonathan G. F. Powell, “Were Cicero’s Laws the laws of Cicero’s Republic?,” in Powell and North (2001), 17-39. 157, 2001.

• “Theodicy and providential care in Stoicism.”

  - Dorothea Frede, “Theodicy and providential care in Stoicism,” in Traditions in Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, Its Background and Aftermath, eds. D. Frede and A. Laks. Leiden: 85-117., 2002.

• The Roman Philosophers: From the Time of Cato the Censor to the Death of Marcus Aurelius.

  - Mark Morford, The Roman Philosophers: From the Time of Cato the Censor to the Death of Marcus Aurelius. London, 2002.
  Overview: –  The philosophers of the Roman world were asking questions whose answers had practical effects on people’s lives in antiquity, and which still influence our thinking to this day. In spite of being neglected in the modern era, this… More

• “Roman philosophy.”

  - Arthur A. Long, “Roman philosophy,” in The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy, ed. D. N. Sedley. Cambridge: 184-210., 2003.   “Roman philosophy.”

• Lectures in the History of Political Thought

  - Michael Oakeshott, Lectures in the History of Political Thought, eds. T. Nardin and L. O’Sullivan. Exeter, 2006.
  Overview: –  Oakeshott’s memorable lectures on the history of political thought, delivered each year at the London School of Economics, will now be available in print for the first time as Volume II of his Selected Writings. Based on manuscripts in… More

• Law, Reason, and the Cosmic City

  - Katja M. Vogt, Law, Reason, and the Cosmic City. Oxford University Press, 2008.
  Overview: –  The book is a comprehensive study of early Stoic political philosophy. It considers the conceptions of the cosmic city and the common law as central to the Stoics’ theory, and discusses how these conceptions are integral to Stoic… More

• “L’argument du De Republica et le Songe de Scipion.”

  - Jed W. Atkins, “L’argument du De Republica et le Songe de Scipion.”, 2011.