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Collections of primary texts
- A. A. Long and D. N. Sedley, 1987, The Hellenistic Philosophers 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [Vol. 2 contains an extensive bibliography of scholarly books and articles.] (Scholar)
- B. Inwood and L. Gerson, 1997, Hellenistic Philosophy 2nd ed. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing 1997. [This volume is cheaper than Long and Sedley, but it lacks the valuable commentary that LS provide. On the other hand, Inwood and Gerson give you more texts on Pyrrhonism.] (Scholar)
- Hans von Arnim, Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta (Leipzig, 1903–5; vol. 4 indexes, 1924)
- Alan Bowen and Robert Todd, 2004, Cleomedes' Lectures on Astronomy Berkeley: University of California Press. [A translation of the Stoic Cleomedes' work on astronomy, together with introduction and commentary.] (Scholar)
- B. Inwood, 2007, Seneca: Selected Philosophical Letters translated with introduction and commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [The Roman Stoics are now rightly a topic of study on their own.] (Scholar)
- A. Pomeroy, 1999, Arius Didymus: Epitome of Stoic Ethics, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature. [Translation and commentary on one of our fullest sources on Stoic ethical theory.]. (Scholar)
Introductions to Stoicism
- Brennan, T., 2005, The Stoic Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press. [A clear and thought-provoking discussion.] (Scholar)
- Inwood, B., 2003, The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Long, A. A., 2002, Epictetus: a Stoic and Socratic guide to life, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Long, A. A., 1986, Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Skeptics, 2nd edition, London: Duckworth. (Scholar)
- Nussbaum, M., 1994, The Therapy of Desire, Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Not really an introduction, but a splendid book accessible to a wide readership. Considers the important therapeutic element in Hellenistic philosophy.] (Scholar)
- Rist, J. M., 1969, Stoic Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Includes a discussion of the Stoic views on suicide.] (Scholar)
- Sambursky, S., 1959, The Physics of the Stoics, London: Routledge. [An interesting book insofar as it attempts to connect aspects of the Stoics physical theory to many contemporary scientific notions. It might be best to read it alongside the review by Wasserstein in Journal of Hellenic Studies, 83 (1963) before you make up your mind.] (Scholar)
- Sandbach, F. H., 1994, The Stoics, 2nd edition, London: Duckworth. (Scholar)
- Sharples, R. W., 1996, Stoics, Epicureans and Skeptics, London: Routledge. [A thematic treatment of the competing Hellenistic schools.] (Scholar)
A few collections, monographs, and some individual articles referred to above
- Algra, K., and J. Barnes, J. Mansfeld and M. Schofield (eds.), 1999, The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [A monumental work of scholarship.] (Scholar)
- Annas, J., 1993, The Morality of Happiness, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. [A very influential book. See the review by B. Inwood in Ancient Philosophy, 15 (1995): 647–665, and Cooper 1996.] (Scholar)
- Baltzly, D., 2003, ‘Stoic Pantheism’, Sophia, 34: 3–33. (Scholar)
- Bobzien, S., 2001, Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy, Oxford: Clarendon. (Scholar)
- Betegh, G., 2003, ‘Cosmological Ethics in the Timaeus and Early Stoicism’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 24: 273–302. (Scholar)
- Brunschwig, J., 1994, Papers in Hellenistic Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Collected papers of one of the foremost scholars in the field.] (Scholar)
- Cooper, J. M., 1996, ‘Eudaimonism, the Appeal to Nature, and “Moral Duty” in Stoicism’, in Engstrom and Whiting 1996, pp. 261–84. Reprinted in J. Cooper, Reason and Emotion, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. (Scholar)
- Cooper, J. M., 2004, ‘Stoic Autonomy’, in J. Cooper (ed.), Knowledge, Nature and the Good: Essays on Ancient Philosophy, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
- Frede, M., 1987, Essays in Ancient Philosophy, Minneapolis: University of Minnnesta Press. [Contains Frede's influential paper on the cognitive impression.] (Scholar)
- Hankinson, R. J., 1998, Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought, Oxford: Clarendon. [Includes an extensive treatment of the Stoics on causation.] (Scholar)
- Inwood, Brad, 2005, Reading Seneca: Stoic Philosophy at Rome, Oxford: Oxford University Press. [A collection of Inwood's essays on Seneca as Stoic philosopher] (Scholar)
- Long, A. A., 1996, Stoic Studies, Berkeley: University of California Press. [Collected papers of one of the foremost scholars on Stocism. see especially ‘The logical basis of Stoic ethics’ and ‘Stoic eudaimonism’.] (Scholar)
- Reydams-Schils, Gretchen, The Roman Stoics, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Rist, J. M., 1978, The Stoics, Berkeley: University of California Press. [Now somewhat dated, but an enjoyable read.] (Scholar)
- Salles, R., 2005, The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism, Burlington VT: Ashgate. (Scholar)
- Schofield, M., and M. Burnyeat and J. Barnes (eds.), 1980, Doubt and Dogmatism: Studies in Hellenistic Epistemology, Oxford: Clarendon. (Scholar)
- Schofield, M. and G. Striker (eds.), 1986, The Norms of Nature, Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press. (Scholar)
- Striker, G., 1996, Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [The collected papers of one of the most influential scholars in the field.] (Scholar)
- Sorabji, R., 1988, Matter, Space and Motion: theories in antiquity and their sequel, London: Duckworth. [Examines the view that the Stoics located bodies in the same place everywhere.] (Scholar)
- Sorabji, R., 2000, Emotion and Peace of Mind: from Stoic agitation to Christian temptation, Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press. [A clear and accessible book on the Stoic theory of the passions and its influence on Christian thought.] (Scholar)
- Taylor, R., 1974, Metaphysics, 2nd edition, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. (Scholar)
- Stockdale, James, 1984, In Love and War, New York: Harper and Row. (Scholar)
Historical context and subsequent influence of Stoicism
- Colish, M., 1985, The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages, 2 volumes, Leiden: E.J. Brill. (Scholar)
- Cooper, J. M., 2004, ‘Justus Lipsius and the Revival of Stoicism in Late-Sixteenth-Century Europe’, in N. Brender and L. Krasnoff (eds.), New Essays on the History of Autonomy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 7–29. (Scholar)
- Engberg-Pedersen, T., 2000, Paul and the Stoics, Westminster: John Knox Press. [Specifically on the alleged correspondence between Paul and Seneca, see J. B. Lightfoot, The Letters of Paul and Seneca, London: Macmillan, 1890, and Aldo Moda, ‘Seneca e il Cristianesimo’, Henoch, 5 (1983):93–109. (Scholar)
- Engstrom S., and J. Whiting (eds.), 1996, Aristotle, Kant and the Stoics, Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press. (Scholar)
- Green, P., 1990, Alexander to Actium, Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
- Osler, M. J., 1991, Atoms, pneuma and tranquillity: Epicurean and Stoic themes in European thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Shifflett, A., 2004, Stoicism, Politics and Literature in the Age of Milton, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Strange, S. and J. Zupko (eds.), 2004, Stoicism: traditions and transformations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Verbeke, G., 1983, The Presence of Stoicism in Medieval Thought, Washington: Catholic University of America Press. (Scholar)
- Zanta, L., 1914, La renaissance du Stoicisme au XVIe siecle, Paris: Champion. (Scholar)
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