The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy* Presents authoritative and timely treatments of Roman philosophy from top scholars in their respective fields*nUtilises a wide range of methodologies* Provides readers with the best resources available to dateContentsPART I. THE ROMAN PHILOSOPHER: AFFILIATION, IDENTITY, SELF, AND OTHER1: Italic Pythagoreanism in the Hellenistic Age.2: Epicurean Orthodoxy and Innovation: From Lucretius toDiogenes of Oenoanda.3: Ethical Argument and Epicurean Subtext in Horace, Odes 1.1 and 2.16.4: Seneca and Stoic Moral Psychology.5: Marcus Aurelius and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises.6: Apuleius and Roman Demonology.7: Philosophers and Roman Friendship.8: Debate or Guidance? Cicero on PhilosophyPART II. WRITING AND ARGUING ROMAN PHILOSOPHY9: The Epicureanism of Lucretius.10: Cicero and the Evolution of Philosophical Dialogue.11: The Stoic Lesson: Cornutus and Epictetus.12: Persius's Paradoxes.13: Plutarch.14: Parrhēsia: Dio, Diatribe, and Philosophical Oratory.15: Consolation.16: The Shape of the Tradition to Come: Academic Arguments in Cicero.17: Persius on Stoic PoeticsPART III. INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF ROMAN PHILOSOPHY18: Translation.19: Roman Philosophy in Its Political and Historiographical Context.20: Rhetoric.21: Self and World in extremis in Roman.22: Medicine.23: Sex.24: Time.25: Death.26: Environment.PART IV. AFTER ROMAN PHILOSOPHY: TRANSMISSION AND IMPACT27: Roman Presocratics: Bio-Doxography in the Late Republic. 28: Reading Aristotle at Rome, 29: Christian Ethics: The Reception of Cicero in Ambrose's De officiis. 30: Augustine's Reception of Platonism. 31: Roman Quasity: A Matrix of Byzantine Thought and History. 32: Latin Neoplatonism: The Medieval Period. 33: Transmitting Roman Philosophy: The Renaissance. 34: "The Art of Self-Deception": Libertine Materialism and Roman Philosophy.In