English Epicures and Stoics
Ancient Legacies in Early Stuart Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16348396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Reid Barbour (corresponding author), Margaret J Osler |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 99-100 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance and Reformation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-429X • E-ISSN: 2293-7374 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Libraries - UOTL (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.33137/rr.v36i1.8594 |
| OpenAlex | W629129602 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
For 17th-century English intellectuals, the ancient Epicureans and Stoics spoke clearly and forcefully to the kinds of problems they most wanted to solve. Whether seeking to define divinity, kingship, nobility or liberty, to determine how people should live, govern, worship, form societies and interpret nature, or to mediate between pleasure and virtue - early Stuart writers time and again adapted and transformed the rival yet crossbred legacies of Epicureanism and Stoicism. In this book, Reid Barbour offers a full account of the lively but hazardous transmission of these Hellenistic philosophers over the first half century of Stuart rule, including the cataclysmic years of civil war that forever changed the role of classical culture in English intellectual life. Ranging from science and ethics to politics and religion, he shows how in many discourses - plays and poems, biblical commentaries, political essays, scientific treatises, texts about health and the good life - the Epicureans and Stoics seemed to spring as many traps as they posed solutions. In response to these dangers, English writers from Francis Bacon and Robert Burton to John Milton and Lucy Hutchinson revised and at times resisted the very philosophies they cared most about
Aristocracy (class · Art · Divinity · Epicureanism · Gentry · Literature · Monarchy · Nobility · Pleasure · Politics · Stoicism · Theology · Virtue · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Shakespeare and Republicanism
The Classical Heritage in Adam Smith's Ethics
The Natural Philosophy in Smith's Essays
Conclusion
The Division of Labour and the Theory of Value
Adam Smith and Ancient Literature
Postscript
The Lectures on Jurisprudence and Roman Law
Hydrography as Poetics
Happy Violence
Epictetus
Joseph Mead, Novellante
David Hume Is Pontiff of the World
Francis Bacon's doctrine of idols
Of Cyder and Sallets
Poetry and Atomism in the Civil War and Restoration
Gardens of happiness
In the Bosome of a Shaddowie Grove”
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2021 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |