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Proceedings of the Symposium Hellenisticum

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Hellenistic Philosophy

List of the Proceedings of the "Symposium Hellenisticum"

  1. Schofield, Malcolm, Burnyeat, Myles, and Barnes, Jonathan, eds. 1980. Doubt and Dogmatism. Studies in Hellenistic Epistemology. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

    First Symposium Hellenisticum, Oxford, 1978.

    Contents: G. E. L. Owen: Preface V; Acknowledgements VII; Note to the Reader XI-XII; 1. David Sedley: The Protagonists 1; 2. M. F. Burnyeat: Can the Sceptic Live his Scepticism? 20; 3. Gisela Striker: Sceptical Strategies 54; 4. Julia Annas: Truth and Knowledge 84; 5. C.C. W. Taylor: 'All Perceptions are True' 105; 6. Jacques Brunschwig: Proof Defined 125; 7. Jonathan Barnes: Proof Destroyed: 161; 8. Claude Imbert: Stoic Logic and Alexandrian Poetics 182; 9. Michel Frede: The Original Notion of Cause 217; 10. Richard Sorabji: Causation, Laws, and Necessity 250; 11. Malcolm Schofield: Preconception, Argument, and God 283; Select Bibliography 309; Index Locorum 317; Index of Greek Words 333; General Index 335-342.

  2. Barnes, Jonathan, Brunschwig, Jacques, Burnyeat, Myles, and Schofield, Malcolm, eds. 1982. Science and Speculation. Studies in Hellenistic Theory and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Second Symposium Hellenisticum, Paris, 1980.

    Contents: Victor Goldschmidt: Preface IX; Acknowledgements XVII; Jonathan Barnes: Introduction XIX; Bibliographical note XXV; Chronological table XXVII; 1. Michael Frede: The method of the so-called Methodical school of medicine 1; 2. Jonathan Barnes: Medicine, experience and logic 24; 3. Ian Mueller: Geometry and scepticism 69; 4. François De Gandt: Force et science des machines 96; 5. G. E. R. Lloyd: Observational error in later Greek science 128; 6. A. A. Long: Astrology: arguments pro and contra 165; 7. M. F. Burnyeat: The origins of non-deductive inference 193; 8. David Sedley: On Signs 239; 9. Jean-Paul Dumont: Confirmation et disconfirmation 273; 10. Victor Goldschmidt: La théorie épicurienne du droit 304; Indexes (i) Passages 327, (ii) General index 341, (iii) Index and glossary of Greek terms 349-351.

  3. Schofield, Malcolm, and Striker, Gisela, eds. 1986. The Norms of Nature. Studies in Hellenistic Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Third Symposium Hellenisticum, Bad Homburg, 1983.

    Contents: Acknowledgements; G. Patzig: Preface;

    Part I. Argument, belief and emotion.

    1. J. Annas: Doing without objective values: ancient and modern strategies 3; 2. M. Nussbaum: 2 Therapeutic arguments: Epicurus and Aristotle 31; 3. D. Furley: Nothing to us? 75; 4. M. Frede: The Stoic doctrine of the affections of the soul 93;

    Part II. Ethical foundations and the summum bonum.

    5. J. Brunschwig: The cradle argument in Epicureanism and Stoicism 113; 6. T. Engberg-Pedersen: Discovering the good: oikeiosis and katheconta in Stoic ethics 145; 7. G. Striker: Antipater, or the art of living 185; 8. T. H. Irwin: Stoic and Aristotelian conceptions of happiness 205; 9. M. Hossenfelder: Epicurus - hedonist malgré lui 245;

    Bibliography 265; Index of passages 271; Glossary of Greek and Latin terms 281;

    General index 283.

  4. Barnes, Jonathan, and Mignucci, Mario, eds. 1988. Matter and Metaphysics. Napoli: Bibliopolis.

    Proceedings of the fourth Symposium Hellenisticum, Pontignano, Italy 1986.

    Contents: Richard Sorabji: The Lays of Ancient Tuscany 9; Gabriele Giannantoni: Introduzione 11; Jacques Brunschwig: La théorie stoïcienne du genre suprême et l'ontologie platonicienne 19; Mario Mignucci: The Stoic notion of relatives 129; Jonathan Barnes: Bits and pieces 223; David Sedley: Epicurean anti-reductionism 295; Malcolm Schofield: The retrenchable present 329; Nicholas Denyer: Stoicism and token reflexivity 375; Anna Maria Ioppolo: Le cause antecedenti in Cicero De fato 40 397; Fernanda Decleva Caizzi: La "materia scorrevole". Sulle tracce di un dibattito perduto 425; Michael Wolff: Hipparchus and the Stoic theory of motion 471; Index locorum 549; Index of names 573; Index of subjects 581; Index of Greek and Latin terms 591-596.

  5. Brunschwig, Jacques, and Nussbaum, Martha, eds. 1993. Passions and Perceptions. Studies in Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Fifth Symposium Hellenisticum, Champagnole, 1989.

    Contents: Preface IX; Avant-propos XI-XII;

    Part I. Ethics and Psychology of Edonism 1.

    1. G. Striker: Epicurean hedonism 3; 2. A. Laks: Annicéris et les plaisirs psychiques: quelques préalables doxographiques 7;

    Part II. Atomism and Epichurean Psychology 51.

    3. J. Annas: Epicurus on agency 53; 4. D. Furley: Democritus and Epicurus on sensible qualities 72;

    Part III. The Passions 95.

    5. M. C. Nussbaum: Poetry and the passions: two Stoic views 97; 6. B. Inwood: Seneca and psychological dualism 150; 7. J. Hankinson: Actions and passions: affection, emotion and moral self-management in Galen's philosophical psychology 184;

    Part IV. Stoic Psychological Concepts 223.

    8. J.-L. Labarrière: De la 'nature phantastique' des animaux chez les Stoiciens 225; 9. C. Levy: Le concept de doxa des Stoiciens à Philon d'Alexandrie: essai d'étude diachronique 250; 10. P. Mitsis: Seneca on reason, rules and moral development 285; 11. D. Sedley: Chrysippus on psychophysical causality 313; Bibliography 332; Subject index 334; Name index 346; Index of passages cited 351-364..

  6. Laks, André, and Schofield, Malcolm, eds. 1995. Justice and Generosity. Studies in Hellenistic Social and Political Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Sixth Symposium Hellenisticum, Cambridge, 1992.

    Contents: Preface IX; Introduction 1;

    Part I. Political Philosophy: Development and Transformation.

    1. David E. Hahm: Polybius' applied political theory 7; 2. Jean-Louis Ferrary: The statesman and the law in the political philosophy of Cicero 48; 3. Julia Annas: Aristotelian political theory in the Hellenistic period 74; 4. Carlo Natali: Oikonomia in Hellenistic political thought 95; 5. J. L. Moles: The Cynics and politics 129;

    Part II. The Ethical Framework of Politics and Society.

    6. Antonina Alberti: The Epicurean theory of law and justice 161; 7. Malcolm Schofield: Two Stoic approaches to justice 191; 8. A. A. Long: Cicero's politics in De officiis 213; 9. Brad Inwood: Politics and paradox in Seneca's De beneficiis 249; Bibliography 266; General index 280; Index of Greek and Latin words 285; Index of ancient names and philosophical schools 287; Index of passages 290-291.

  7. Inwood, Brad, and Mansfeld, Jaap, eds. 1997. Assent and Argument. Studies in Cicero's Academic Books. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Seventh Symposium Hellenisticum, Cambridge, 1992.

    Contents: Preface VII; Introduction IX-XI; M. Griffin: The composition of the Academica : motives and versions 1; W. Gõrler: Cicero's philosophical stance in the Lucullus 36; J. Glucker: Socrates in the Academic books and other Ciceronian works 58; T. Dorandi: Gli Academica quale fonte per la storia dell' Academia 89; K. A. Algra: Chrysippus, Carneades, Cicero: the ethical divisiones in Cicero's Lucullus 107; J. Barnes: Logic in Academica I and the Lucullus 140; R. J. Hankinson: Natural criteria and the transparency of judgement: Antiochus, Philo and Galen on epistemological justification 161; J. Allen: Carneadean argument in Cicero's Academic books 217; G. Striker: Academics fighting Academics 257; M. F. Burnyeat: Antipater and self-refutation: elusive arguments in Cicero's Academica 277; Index Nominum et rerum 311; Index locorum potiorum 316-323.

  8. Frede, Dorothea, and Laks, André, eds. 2002. Traditions of Theology. Studies in Hellenistic Theology, Its Background and Aftermath. Leiden: Brill.

    Eighth Symposium Hellenisticum, Villeneuve-d'Asq, 1998.

    Contents: D. Frede, André Laks: Introduction VII-XIV; R. Sharples: Aristotelian Theology after Aristotle 1; D. Sedley: The Origins of Stoic God 41; D. Frede: Theodicy and Providential Care in Stoicism 85; B. Inwood: God and Human Knowledge in Seneca's Natural Questions 119; M. Erler: Epicurus as deus mortalis. Homoiosis theoi and Epicurean Self cultivation 159; D. Obbink: 'All Gods are True' in Epicurus 183; J. Dillon: Plutarch and God: Theodicy and Cosmogony in the Thought of Plutarch 223; E. Spinelli: Sesto Empirico e l'astrologia 239; D. Runia: The beginnings of the end: Philo of Alexandria and Hellenistic Theology 281; Indexes compiled by S. Fazzo and A. Laks: Index Nominum 317; Index Rerum 321; Index Locorum 325-348.

  9. Frede, Dorothea, and Inwood, Brad, eds. 2005. Language and Learning. Philosophy of Language in the Hellenistic Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Ninth Symposium Hellenisticum, Hamburg, 2001.

    Contents: List of ontributors VII; Preface IX; List of abbreviations XI; Introduction 1; 1. J. Allen: The Stoics on the origin of language and the foundations of etymology 14; 2. A. A. Long: Stoic linguistics, Plato's Cratylus, and Augustine's De dialectica 36; 3. A. Verlinsky: Epicurus and his predecessors on the origin of language 56; 4. C. Atherton: Lucretius on what language is not 101; 5. I. Sluiter: Communicating Cynicism: Diogenes' gangsta rap 139; 6. C. Brittain: Common sense: concepts, definition and meaning in and out of the Stoa 164; 7. D. Blank: Varro's anti-analogist 210; 8.S. Bobzien: The Stoics on fallacies of equivocation 239; 9. J. Barnes: What is a disjunction? 274; 10. S. Ebbesen: Theories of language in the Hellenistic age and in the twelfth and thirteeenth centuries 299; References 320; Index nominum et rerum 336; Index locorum 341-353.

  10. Ioppolo, Anna Maria, and Sedley, David, eds. 2007. Pyrrhonists, Patricians, Platonizers. Hellenistic Philosophy in the Period 155-86 BC. Napoli: Bibliopolis.

    Tenth Symposium Hellenisticum, Roma, 2004.

    Contents: A.M. Ioppolo and D. N. Sedley: Introduction 9; J.-L. Ferrary: Les philosophes grecs à Rome (155-86 A V. J.-C.) 17; D. E. Hahm: Critolaus and Late Hellenistic Peripatetic Philosophy 47; T. Tieleman: Panaetius' Place in the History of Stoicism with Special Reference to His Moral Psychology 103; F. Alesse: Il concetto di ousia nel pensiero metafisico e cosmologico di Posidonio: alcune considerazioni su F 92 e 96 EK (= 267 e 268 Th.) 143; J. Annas: Carneades' Classification of Ethical Theories 187; A.M. Ioppolo: L'assenso nella filosofia di Clitomaco: un problema di linguaggio? 225; M. Schofield: Aenesidemus: Pyrrhonist and "Heraclitean" 269; V. Tsouna: Philodemus and the Epicurean Tradition 339; Chronological Table 398; Index locorum 403; Index of ancient names 421; Index of modern authors 427-430.

  11. Algra, Keimpe, and Ioerodakonou, Katerina, eds. 2015. Sextus Empiricus and Ancient Physics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Eleventh Symposium Hellenisticum, Delphi, 2007.

    M = Adversus Mathematicos.

    Contents: Keimpe Algra and Katerina Ierodiakonou: Introduction; 1. Richard Bett: God: M 9.13–194; 2. Michael J. White: Cause: M 9.195–330; 3. Katerina Ierodiakonou: Wholes and parts: M 9.331–358; 4. Gábor Betegh: Body: M 9.359–440; 5. Keinpe Algra: Place: M 10.1–36; 6. R. J. Hankinson: Motion: M 10.37–168; 7. Susanne Bobzien: Time: M 10.169–247; 8. Tad Brennan: Number: M 10.248–309; 9. James Warren: Coming-to-be and passing-away: M 10.310–351.

  12. Annas, Julia, and Betegh, Gábor, eds. 2016. Cicero's De Finibus: Philosophical Approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Twelfth Symposium Hellenisticum, Budapest, 2010.

    Contents: List of contributors VII; Julia Annas: Introduction 1; Charles Brittain: 1. Cicero’s sceptical methods: the example of the De Finibus 12; 2. James Warren: Epicurean pleasure in Cicero’s De Finibus 41; 3. Pierre-Marie Morel: Cicero and Epicurean virtues (De Finibus 1–2) 77; 4. Dorothea Frede: Epicurus on the importance of friendship in the good life (De Finibus 1.65–70; 2.78–85) 96; 5. Margaret Graver: Honor and the honorable: Cato’s discourse in De Finibus 3 118; 6. Brad Inwood: The voice of nature 147; 7. Anna Maria Ioppolo: Sententia explosa : criticism of Stoic ethics in De Finibus 4 167; 8. Thomas Bénatouïl: Structure, standards and Stoic moral progress in De Finibus 4 198; 9. Christopher Gill: Antiochus’ theory of oikeiōsis 221; Bibliography 248; Subject index 259; Index locorum 262.

  13. Bénatouil, Thomas, and Ierodiakonou, Katerina, eds. 2018. Dialectic after Plato and Aristotle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Thirteeenth Symposium Hellenisticum, Abbaye des Prémontrés at Pont-à-Mousson (Lorraine, France), 15-19 July 2013.

    Contents: List of Contributors VII; Preface IX, List of Abbreviations X; Thomas Bénatouïl: Introduction: Dialectics in Dialogue 1; James Allen: Megara and Dialectic 17; Paolo Crivelli: Dialectic in the Early Peripatos 47; David Sedley: Epicurus on Dialectic 82; Katerina Ierodiakonou: Dialectic as a Subpart of Stoic Philosophy 114; Jean-Baptiste Gourinat: Stoic Dialectic and Its Objects 134; Luca Castagnoli: Dialectic in the Hellenistic Academy 168; Tobias Reinhardt: Pithana and probabilia 218; Sophie Aubert-Baillot: Terminology and Practice of Dialectic in Cicero’s Letters 254; Benjamin Morison: The Sceptic’s Modes of Argumentation 283; Riccardo Chiaradonna: Galen and Middle Platonists on Dialectic and Knowledge 320; Bibliography 350; Index of Names 371; Index of Passages 376-391.

  14. Inwood, Brad, and Warren, James, eds. 2020. Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University press.

    Fourteenth Symposium Hellenisticum.

    Contents: List of Contributors VI; List of Abbreviations VII; Brad Inwood, James Warren: Introduction 1;

    1. Sylvia Berryman: Hellenistic Medicine, Strato of Lampsacus, and Aristotle's Theory of Soul 9; David Leith:

    2. Herophilus and Erasistratus on the Hegemonikon 30; 3. Philip van der Eijk: Galen on Soul, Mixture and Pneuma 62; 4. The Partition of the Soul: Francesco Verde: Epicurus, Demetrius Lacon, and Diogenes of Oinoanda 89; 5. Francesco Ademollo: Cosmic and Individual Soul in Early Stoicism 113; 6. Christelle Veillard: Soul, Pneuma , and Blood: The Stoic Conception of the Soul 145; 7. Jan Opsomer: The Platonic Soul, frorn the Early Academy to the First Century CE 171; 8. J. P. F. Wynne: Cicero on the Soul's Sensation of Itself: Tusculans 1.49-76 199; Bibliography 231; Index Locorum 252; Subject Index 262.