John Cooper, the Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, and renowned interpreter of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, died at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center on Aug. 8 ...

Meet the Stoics Stoicism is a Greco-Roman philosophy that began around 300 BCE with Zeno of Citium (modern-day Cyprus). Zeno was a merchant who lost all of his goods in a shipwreck and arrived in ...

That is why it is surprising to discover that in a regime as autocratic as the Roman Empire, where the Senate’s functions were sidelined, a peculiar opposition movement emerged in the 1st century AD, ...

As a scholar of ancient philosophy and a practicing stoic, I have found great solace in the works of Roman stoic philosophers such as Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome, and Epictetus, teacher of ...

Stoicism was the ancient Greek and then Roman philosophy founded in the last decades of the fourth century BCE by a merchant, Zeno of Citium (modern Cyprus). The latter’s vessel had sunk on ...

Scott LaBarge is a specialist in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, offering both survey courses on the ancient Western tradition in general and more focused courses on specific topics and figures, ...