The Stoics Reader
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 3rd century BCE to 2nd century CE, collected 2008
- Form
- Treatise
- Language
- Greek
- Length
- Medium · 240 pp120 to 300 pages
- Difficulty
- Difficult4 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendThe Stoics Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia, translated by Brad Inwood and Lloyd P. GersonHackett, 2008The edition Yale assigns; the numbered texts make it easy to find the passages on the syllabus.
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A collection of the surviving evidence for early and middle Stoicism, whose founders' books are lost. Inwood and Gerson translate and number the fragments and reports from Diogenes Laertius, Cicero, Plutarch, Stobaeus, Sextus Empiricus and others, arranged by topic: logic, physics, ethics, and the lives of Zeno, Cleanthes and Chrysippus. It is the standard way for students to read what the Stoics actually argued about fate, the passions, virtue and the rational cosmos.
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The catalogue entry above is complete: the dates, the form, the themes and every program that assigns The Stoics Reader are verified against each program's published list.
What is missing is the part that takes real work: the summary, the key passages, and a recommended translation. The edition named below is the one most programs assign, so the buy links are useful already.
