About
- 1.The World of the Greco-Roman Moralists
- 2.How Empire Changed Philosophy
- 3.The Great Schools and Their Battles
- 4.Dominant Themes and Metaphors
- 5.The Ideal Philosopher — a Composite Portrait
- 6.The Charlatan — Philosophy Betrayed
- 7.Philosophy Satirized — The Comic Lucian
- 8.Cicero — The Philosopher as Politician
- 9.Seneca — Philosopher as Court Advisor
- 10.Good Roman Advice — Cicero and Seneca
- 11.Musonius Rufus — The Roman Socrates
- 12.Dio Chrysostom — The Wandering Rhetorician
- 13.Dio Chrysostom — Preaching Peace and Piety
- 14.Epictetus — Philosopher as School Teacher
- 15.Epictetus — The Stotic Path to Virtue
- 16.Epictetus — The Messenger of Zeus
- 17.Marcus Aurelius — Meditations of the King
- 18.Jews Thinking Like Greeks
- 19.Philo — Judaism as Greek Philosophy
- 20.Plutarch — Biography as Moral Instruction
- 21.Plutarch and Philosophical Religion
- 22.Plutarch on Virtue and Educating Children
- 23.Plutarch — Envy, Anger, and Talking Too Much
- 24.The Missing Page in Philosophy’s Story