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Sources
Collections of Philo’s fragments
- Brittain, Charles, 2001, Philo of Larissa: The Last of the Academic Sceptics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 345–370.
[The evidence on Philo in Greek and Latin, with English translations.]
(Scholar)
- Inwood, Brad and Lloyd P. Gerson (eds.), 1997, Hellenistic
Philosophy: Introductory Readings, second edition, Indianapolis:
Hackett. (Scholar)
- Long, A. A. and D. N. Sedley (eds.), 1987, The Hellenistic Philosophers, Volume 1: Translations of the Principal Sources with Philosophical Commentary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511808050
[Both Inwood & Gerson and Long & Sedley have useful Academic texts, but are limited on Philo himself.]
(Scholar)
- Mette, Hans Joachim, 1986–7, “Philon von Larisa und
Antiochus von Askalon”, Lustrum, 28–9:
9–63.
[The evidence on Philo in Greek and Latin, with German
translations.]
(Scholar)
Primary sources
- Anonymous, Prolégomènes à la Philosophie
de Platon, Leendert Gerrit Westerink (ed.), Jean Trouillard &
Alain Philippe Segonds (trans.), Paris: Collection des
Universités de France, 1990.
[Greek text with French translation of the Introduction to
Plato.]
- Augustine, Aurelius Augustinus: Contra Academicos, De beata
vita, De ordine, Therese Fuhrer and Simone Adam (eds), Berlin: De
Gruyter, 2017. doi:10.1515/9783110445244
- –––, Contra Academicos Libri Tres
(Corpus Christianorum SL 29), W. M. Green (ed.), Turnholt: Brepols,
1970.
- –––, Augustine Against the Academicians and
The Teacher, Peter King (trans.), Indianapolis: Hackett,
1995.
- Cicero, [Ac] On Academic Scepticism, Charles
Brittain (trans.), Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006.
- –––, Tusculan Disputations (Loeb
Classical Library 141/Cicero XVIII), John Edward King (trans.),
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927.
[Loeb edition with English translation.]
- –––, On the Nature of the Gods,
Academics (Loeb Classical Library 268/Cicero XIX), H. Rackham
(trans.), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1933.
[Loeb edition with English translation.]
- –––, On Ends (De finibus bonorum et
malorum), (Loeb Classical Library 40/Cicero XVII), H. Rackham
(trans.) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1914.
[Loeb edition with English translation.]
- –––, De Oratore [= On the
Orator] Book III, in On the Orator: Book 3. On Fate. Stoic
Paradoxes. Divisions of Oratory (Loeb Classical Library
349/Cicero IV), H. Rackham (trans), Cambridge MA: Harvard University
Press, 1942.
[Loeb edition with English translation.]
- –––, On Moral Ends, Raphael Woolf
(trans.), Julia Annas (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2002. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511803659
[A translation of De finibus.]
- Galen, Favorino di Arelate, A. Barigazzi (ed.), Florence:
le Monnier, 1966.
[Greek text with Italian translation of Galen’s On the Best
Method of Teaching.]
- Gellius, Attic Nights, Volume III: Books 14–20
(Loeb Classical Library 212), J. C. Rolfe (trans.), Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1927.
[Loeb edition with English translation.]
- Numenius, Eusebii Pamphili Evangelicae Praeparationis Libri
XV, 4 vols., E. H. Gifford, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1903.
[Greek text with English translation of Eusebius; book 14.4–9
contains Numenius’ fragments.]
(Scholar)
- ––– Numenius, E. Des Places (ed.),
Paris: Belles Lettres, 1973.
[Greek text with French translation.]
- Philodemus, Storia dei filosofi [.] Platone e
l’Academia, Tiziano Dorandi (ed.), Naples: Bibliopolis,
1991.
[Greek text with Italian translation of Philodemus’
Catalogue of Academic Philosophers.]
(Scholar)
- Photius, Photius: Bibliothèque, R. Henry (ed.),
Paris: Belles Lettres, 1959–67.
[Greek text with French translation.]
- –––, Photius: The Bibliotheca, N. G.
Wilson (trans.), London: Bristol Classical Press, 1994.
[A selection in English.]
- Plutarch, Plutarch Moralia XIII Part 2: Stoic Essays
(Loeb Classical Library 470), Harold Cherniss (trans.), Cambridge MA:
Harvard University Press, 1976.
[Loeb edition with English translation of Plutarch’s Stoic
Contradictions and Common Conceptions]
- Sextus Empiricus, [PH] Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of
Scepticism [Pyrrhōneioi hypotypōseis]
(Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy), Julia Annas and
Jonathan Barnes (trans.), New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994,
second edition 2000.
- –––, [M] Sextus Empiricus: Against
the Logicians, Richard Bett (trans.), Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511815232
- –––, Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Loeb
Classical Library 273/Sextus Empiricus I), R. G. Bury (trans.),
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1933.
[Loeb edition of PH.]
- –––, Against the Logicians
[Adversus Mathematicos 7–8] (Loeb Classical Library
291/Sextus Empiricus II), R. G. Bury (trans.), Cambridge MA: Harvard
University Press, 1935.
[Loeb edition of M.]
- Stobaeus, Joannis Stobaei Anthologium, Wachsmuth, Curt
and Otto Hense (ed.), Berlin: Weidmannsche, 1884–1909.
[The excerpt about Philo’s ethics is translated in Brittain 2001
and Schofield 2002.]
Edited volumes and monographs
- Algra, Keimpe, Jonathan Barnes, Jaap Mansfeld, and Malcolm Schofield (eds.), 1999, The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/chol9780521250283 (Scholar)
- Brittain, Charles, 2001a, Philo of Larissa: The Last of the Academic Sceptics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Dorandi, Tiziano, 1991a, Storia dei filosofi [.] Platone e
l’Academia, Naples: Bibliopolis. (Scholar)
- Griffin, Miriam and Jonathan Barnes (eds), 1989, Philosophia
Togata: Essays on Philosophy and Roman Society, Oxford: Clarendon
Press. (Scholar)
- Inwood, Brad and Jaap Mansfeld (eds.), 1997, Assent and Argument: Studies in Cicero’s Academic Books. Proceedings of the 7th Symposium Hellenisticum (Utrecht, August 21–25, 1995), Leiden: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004321014 (Scholar)
- Machuca, Diego E. and Baron Reed (eds.), 2018, Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present, London: Bloomsbury. (Scholar)
- Popkin, Richard H. (ed.), 1996, Scepticism in the History of Philosophy, Dordrecht: Kluwer. doi:10.1007/978-94-017-2942-0 (Scholar)
Philo’s life and philosophical activity
- Barnes, Jonathan, 1989, “Antiochus of Ascalon”, in
Griffin and Barnes 1989: 51–96. (Scholar)
- Brittain, Charles, 2001b, “Philo’s Life”, in
Brittain 2001a: 38–72. (Scholar)
- Cappello, Orazio, 2019, The School of Doubt: Skepticism,
History and Politics in Cicero’s “Academica”,
Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
- Dorandi, Tiziano, 1991b, “Introduzione”, in Dorandi
1991a: 23–99. (Scholar)
- Fleischer, Kilian, 2017a, “New Evidence on the Death of
Philo of Larissa (PHerc. 1021, Cols. 33.42–34.7)”, The
Cambridge Classical Journal, 63: 69–81.
doi:10.1017/s175027051700001x (Scholar)
- –––, 2017b, “Starb Philo von Larisa im
Alter von 63 Jahren?”, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und
verwandte Gebiete, 63: 335–66. (Scholar)
- –––, 2017c, “The Pupils of Philo of
Larissa and Philodemus’ Stay in Sicily (PHerc. 1021,
col. XXXIV 6–19)”, Cronache ercolanesi, 47:
73–85. (Scholar)
- Fleischer, Kilian, 2018, “Philon of Larissa”, in
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Roger S Bagnall, Kai
Brodersen, Craige B Champion, Andrew Erskine, and Sabine R Huebner
(eds.), Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2 pages.
doi:10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah30445 (Scholar)
- Görler, Woldemar, 1994, “Älterer
Pyrrhonismus—Jüngere Akademie, Antiochos aus
Askalon”, in Die Philosophie der Antike 4: Die
Hellenistische Philosophie, Helmut Flashar (ed.), Basel: Schwabe
& Co., pp. 915–937. (Scholar)
- Glucker, John, 1978, Antiochus and the Late Academy, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 13–31, 64–90. (Scholar)
- Goulet, Richard, 2012, “Philon de Larissa”, in
Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques, vol. v.1, Richard
Goulet (ed.), Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, pp.
404–24. (Scholar)
- Mette, Hans Joachim, 1985, “Weitere Akademiker heute: von
Lakydes bis zu Kleitomachos”, Lustrum, 27:
39–148. (Scholar)
- –––, 1986–7, “Philon von Larisa und
Antiochus von Askalon”, Lustrum, 28–9:
9–63. (Scholar)
- Puglia, Enzo, 2000, “Le biografie di Filone e di Antioco
nella Storia dell’Academia di Filodemo”,
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 130:
17–28. (Scholar)
- Striker, Gisela, 2012, “Philon (3), of Larissa, last
undisputed head of the Academy, 159/158–84/83 BCE”, in
The Oxford Classical Dictionary, fourth edition, Simon
Hornblower and Antony Spawforth (gen. eds), Oxford: Oxford University
Press, pp. 1133–34.
doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.5005 (Scholar)
Philo’s epistemological positions
Philo’s relation to other philosophers
- Annas, Julia, 1990, “Stoic Epistemology”, in
Epistemology, Stephen Everson (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, pp. 184–203 (Scholar)
- Barnes, Jonathan, 1989, “Antiochus of Ascalon”, in
Griffin and Barnes 1989: 51–96. (Scholar)
- Bonazzi, Mauro, 2003, Academici e Platonici. Il dibattito
antico sullo scetticismo di Platone, Milan: LED. (Scholar)
- Brittain, Charles, 2001d, “The Unity of the Academy:
Philo’s Roman Books”, in Brittain 2001a:
169–254. (Scholar)
- –––, 2007, “Middle Platonists on Academic
scepticism”, in Richard Sorabji and R. W. Sharples (eds.),
Greek and Roman Philosophy, 100 BC–200 AD (BICS
Supplement 94), London: Institute of Classical Studies, vol. 2, pp.
297–315. (Scholar)
- –––, 2016, “Cicero’s Sceptical
Methods: The Example of the De Finibus”, in
Cicero’s “De Finibus”: Philosophical
Approaches, Julia Annas and Gábor Betegh (eds.),
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 12–40.
doi:10.1017/CBO9781139871396.002 (Scholar)
- Decleva Caizzi, Fernanda, 1992, “Aenesidemus and the Academy”, The Classical Quarterly, 42(1): 176–189. doi:10.1017/s0009838800042671 (Scholar)
- Frede, Dorothea, 1996, “How Sceptical Were the Academic
Sceptics?”, in Popkin 1996: 1–25.
doi:10.1007/978-94-017-2942-0_1 (Scholar)
- Frede, Michael, 1999, “Stoic Epistemology”, in Algra et al. 1999: 295–322. doi:10.1017/chol9780521250283.010 (Scholar)
- Hankinson, R. J., 1995, The Sceptics (Arguments of the Philosophers), London: Routledge. (Scholar)
- Ioppolo, Anna Maria, 1993, “The Academic Position of Favorinus of Arelate”, Phronesis, 38(2): 183–213. doi:10.1163/156852893321052389 (Scholar)
- Lévy, Carlos, 2005, “Les Petits Académiciens:
Lacyde, Charmadas, Métrodore de Stratonice”, in Mauro
Bonazzi and Vincenza Celluprica (eds.), L’eredita
platonica, Naples: Bibliopolis, pp. 55–77. (Scholar)
- Mansfeld, J., 1995, “Aenesidemus and the Academics”,
in Lewis Ayres (ed.), The Passionate Intellect: Essays on the
Transformation of Classical Traditions presented to Professor I.G.
Kidd, London: Routledge, pp. 235–248. (Scholar)
- Opsomer, Jan, 1998, In search of the truth: Academic tendencies in Middle Platonism, Brussels: Paleis der Academiën. (Scholar)
- Sedley, David, 1996, “Three Platonist Interpretations of theTheaetetus”, in Christopher Gill and Mary Margaret McCabe (eds.), Form and Argument in Late Plato, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 79–103. (Scholar)
- Tarrant, Harold, 1985, Scepticism or Platonism. The Philosophy of the Fourth Academy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Wynne, J. P. F., 2018, “Cicero”, in Machuca and Reed
2018: 93–101. (Scholar)
- –––, 2021, “Cicero’s Tusculan
Disputations: A Sceptical Reading”, Oxford Studies in
Ancient Philosophy 58: 205–238. (Scholar)
Philo’s ethics
Philo’s rhetoric
- Brittain, Charles, 2001f, “Rhetoric”, in Brittain
2001a: 296–342. (Scholar)
- Lévy, Carlos, 2010, “La rhétorique et son
contexte: quelques remarques sur l’enseignement
rhétorique de Philon de Larissa”, in Luc Brisson and
Pierre Chiron (eds), Rhetorica philosophans: Melanges offerts a
Michel Patillon, Paris: Vrin, pp. 95–106. (Scholar)
- Reinhardt, Tobias, 2000, “Rhetoric in the Fourth Academy”, The Classical Quarterly, 50(2): 531–547. doi:10.1093/cq/50.2.531 (Scholar)
- –––, 2003, Cicero’s
“Topica”, Oxford: Oxford University Press, especially
pp. 3–17. (Scholar)
- Wisse Jakob, 2002, “The Intellectual Background of
Cicero’s Rhetorical Works”, in James M. May (ed.),
Brill’s Companion to Cicero: Oratory and Rhetoric,
Leiden: Brill, pp. 331–74. doi:10.1163/9789047400936_012 (Scholar)