Wolfson College, Oxford

Selected Publications

Books

  • Stoicism (Chesham: Acumen / Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006) [Further Information]
  • Justus Lipsius: On Constancy, Edited with an Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography (Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press 2006) [Further Information]
  • The Art of Living: The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003 / London: Duckworth, 2009) [Further Information]

Articles and Chapters

In press

  • 'The Stoic Tradition', in K. Pollmann, W. Otten, eds, The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), in press [Further information]
  • 'Seneca's Philosophical Predecessors and Contemporaries', in G. Damschen, A. Heil, eds, Brill’s Companion to Seneca (Leiden: Brill, 2013), in press [Further information]

Published

  • 'Renaissance Philosophy', British Journal for the History of Philosophy 20/6 (2012), 1195-1204 [DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2012.718256]
  • 'Stoics Against Stoics in Cudworth's A Treatise of Freewill', British Journal for the History of Philosophy 20/5 (2012), 935-52 [DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2012.718870]
  • 'The Meditations and the Ancient Art of Living', in M. van Ackeren, ed., A Companion to Marcus Aurelius (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 453-64 [DOI: 10.1002/9781118219836.ch29]
  • 'Marcus Aurelius in Contemporary Philosophy', in M. van Ackeren, ed., A Companion to Marcus Aurelius (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 532-44 [DOI: 10.1002/9781118219836.ch34]
  • 'Is God a Mindless Vegetable? Cudworth on Stoic Theology', Intellectual History Review 21/2 (2011), 121-33 [DOI: 10.1080/17496977.2011.574339]
  • 'Stoic Ontology and Plato's Sophist', in V. Harte, M.M. McCabe, R.W. Sharples, A. Sheppard, eds, Aristotle and the Stoics Reading Plato, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Suppl. 107 (2010), 185-203 [Further information]
  • 'Epictetus', in A. Grafton, G. Most, S. Settis, eds, The Classical Tradition (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), 319-20 [Further information]
  • 'Marcus Aurelius: The Philosopher', in M. Gagarin, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, 7 vols (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), vol. 4, 345-6 [Further information]
  • 'Justus Lipsius's De Constantia: A Stoic Spiritual Exercise', Poetics Today 28/3 (2007), 339-62 [DOI: 10.1215/03335372-2007-001]
  • 'Stoic Practical Philosophy in the Imperial Period', in R. Sorabji, R.W. Sharples, eds, Greek and Roman Philosophy, 100 BC-200 AD, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Suppl. 94/1 (2007), 115-40 [Further information | Review at BMCR]
  • 'Techne peri ton bion. Zur stoischen Konzeption von Kunst und Leben', in W. Kersting, C. Langbehn, eds, Kritik der Lebenskunst (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2007), 91-117 [Further Information]
  • 'Stoic Cosmopolitanism and Zeno's Republic', History of Political Thought 28/1 (2007), 1-29 [Access online]
  • 'The Aristotelian Commentators: A Bibliographical Guide', in P. Adamson, H. Baltussen, M. Stone, eds, Philosophy, Science, and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Commentaries, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Suppl. 83/1 (2004), 239-68 [DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-5370.2004.tb02305.x | Further information | Review at BMCR]
  • 'Thomas Gataker', in R.B. Todd, ed., The Dictionary of British Classicists, 3 vols (Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004), vol. 2, pp. 359-61 [Further information]
  • 'Simon the Shoemaker and the Problem of Socrates', Classical Philology 98/3 (2003), 207-16 [DOI: 10.1086/420717]

Reviews

  • Review of B. Inwood, L. P. Gerson, The Stoics Reader, in Journal of Hellenic Studies 130 (2010), 280-81 [DOI: 10.1017/S0075426910000947]
  • Review of W. Desmond, Cynics, in Classical Review 60/1 (2010), 56-8 [DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X09990357]
  • Review of H. Baltussen, Philosophy and Exegesis in Simplicius, for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2009) [Access Online]
  • Review of W. O. Stephens, Stoic Ethics: Epictetus and Happiness as Freedom, in Classical Review 59/1 (2009), 79-80 [DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X08001935]
  • Review of C. Gill, The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought, in British Journal of the History of Philosophy 16/4 (2008), 811-14 [DOI: 10.1080/09608780802407878]
  • Review of T. Brennan, The Stoic Life, in Philosophical Books 49/2 (2008), 145-7 [DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0149.2008.459_3.x]
  • Review of W. Detel, Foucault and Classical Antiquity, in Philosophie antique 5 (2005), 248-50
  • Review of M.-O. Goulet-Cazé, Les Kynica du stoicisme, in Classical Review 55/1 (2005), 69-70 [DOI: 10.1093/clrevj/bni041]
  • Review of B. Inwood, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics, in Journal of the History of Philosophy 42/3 (2004), 337-38 [DOI: 10.1353/hph.2004.0056]
  • Review of K. Ierodiakonou, ed., Byzantine Philosophy and its Ancient Sources, in British Journal for the History of Philosophy 12/2 (2004), 341-44 [DOI: 10.1080/09608780410001676520]
  • Review of P. Hadot, What is Ancient Philosophy?, in Classical Review 54/1 (2004), 69-70 [DOI: 10.1093/cr/54.1.69]
  • Review of R. M. van den Berg, Proclus' Hymns, in Classical Review 53/1 (2003), 85-86 [DOI: 10.1093/cr/53.1.85]
  • Review of A. A. Long, Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life, in Classical Review 53/1 (2003), 65-67 [DOI: 10.1093/cr/53.1.65]

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