Philosophy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23730834 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leofranc Holford‐Strevens (0009-0000-4671-7806, corresponding author), Leofranc Holford-Strevens |
| Year | 2003 |
| Pages | 260-289 |
| Publication date | 2003-11-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Aulus Gellius (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199263196.003.0015 |
| OpenAlex | W4237723095 |
| ISBN | 9780199263196 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 77 |
Gellius constantly expresses the Roman disdain for philosophy not directed at improving human life, yet although he lacks the aptitude for abstract speculation his interests range further than ethics. Many chapters are more concerned with philosophers' lives than their ideas. Gellius ranges over all the schools without indicating a clear preference for any, despite a mild sympathy with Stoicism or Stoicized Platonism; he can even be fair to Epicurus, and condemns Seneca the Younger, who had dared to criticize Cicero's taste for Ennius, as unfit for youth to read. He studies philosophy in Greek, making less use of Cicero than of Plutarch. An excursus finds his interest in the supernatural confined to the official Roman religion.
Art · Cicero · Epicureanism · Epistemology · Literature · Platonism · Stoicism · Sympathy · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Classics · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
History of Classical Scholarship
Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire
Higher education in the ancient world
Herophilus
Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism
Texts and Transmission
Ethics and Human Action in Early Stoicism
Roman declamation in the late Republic and early Empire.
Bildung und Macht
A Commentary on Livy, Books VI–X, Vol. 2: Books VII–VIII
Ulpian
The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman
Malaria and Rome
Commentaries on The Laws Of England
Catullus and his World
Intellectual life in the late Roman Republic
Interpreting a ClassicDemosthenes and His Ancient Commentators
Bilingualism and the Latin Language
Essays in Ancient Philosophy
The Modes of Scepticism
A History of Greek Philosophy
Boethius. The Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology, and Philosophy
Topics in Stoic Philosophy
Der Atticismus in seinen Hauptvertretern von Dionysius von Halikarnass bis auf den zweiten Philostratus
Making Men
Grammatik der griechischen Papyri aus der Ptolemäerzeit
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome
Greek Declamation
Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety
Lucian and His Influence in Europe
‘That Was No Lady, That Was …’
Imperatores Victi
A. Gellii Noctium Atticarum Liber I
The Greek Anthology
Die thrakischen Sprachreste
Storia della lingua italiana
From Ausonius' Schooldays? A Schoolbook and its Relatives
Taking Positions on the Erotic in Renaissance Culture
Pagan Rome and the Early Christians
The Arts of Suetonius
Analecta Gelliana
O egregie grammatice
Nola, Vergil, and Paulinus
Why Attic Nights? Or What's in a Name
A Misdated Manuscript of Gellius
Parva Gelliana
The Harmonious Pulse
Aulus Gellius 17.8
Latin Literature from Seneca to Juvenal
The Letters of Pliny
Images of Women in Antiquity
An anthology of early Latin epigrams? A ghost reconsidered
Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome
The Annotations of M. Valerivs Probvs
Ancient Rhetorical Theories of Simile and Comparison
Translation in Aulus Gellius
Apuleius A Latin Sophist
Seneca
Diiudicatio locorum
The Sacred and Civil Calendar of the Athenian Year
Inscripciones hispanas en verso
Determinism and freedom in stoic philosophy
The Used-Book Trade in the Roman World
The Sound of Greek
Lateinische Laut- und Formenlehre
Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts
Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |