Anthony Long
Chancellor's Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classics and Irving G. Stone Professor Emeritus of Literature
Research Areas
Greek and Roman Philosophy, Greek Literature
Courses taught:
In 2018-19 (for Philosophy): Hellenistic Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind (graduate seminar). In 2019 (for Classics) with Sara Magrin: Early Greek philosophical poetry and prose. In 2021 (for AGRS) Freshman Seminar on Roman Stoicism. In 2022 (for Dept. of Rhetoric) Roman Stoicism and Ecology, with James Porter. In 2023 (for AGRS) Freshman Seminar on Homer, Iliad. In 2025 (for Philosophy) Graduate Seminar on Lucretius and the Epicurean Tradition.
Recent activities: Keeling Lecture in Ancient Philosophy, University College London, 2017; Michael Frede Memorial Lecture, British School at Athens, 2017. Keynote Lectures in 2018: for Life of Breath Conference, University of Durham, and for Stoicon, University of London Senate House. UTube lectures: Socrates and Epictetus, for Stoa Nova; Stoicism Ancient and Modern, for Stoicon 2018; and Stoicism and Catastrophe for Ancient Wisdom. 2023 Irvine Memorial Lecture for the University of St Andrews, on “The Divinity of Nature in Stoicism”. Colloquium on my book, Plotinus On Matter, University of Tübingen. 2024 Annual Lecture for the American Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, on “The Stoic Zeus and the Values of Nature”.
Publications
Latest books: Epictetus.How to be Free; An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (Princeton University Press, 2018), transl. into Greek, German, Spanish, Arabic, Serbian, Indonesian, Korean, Japanese; Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic, with Margaret Graver (Chicago University Press, 2021), transl. into Vietnamese; Plotinus, On Matter, Ennead II.4 (Parmenides Publishing, 2022). Selfhood and Rationality in Ancient Greek Philosophy: From Heraclitus to Plotinus (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Books under contract: Plotinus, Ennead III.1 On Fate (Parmenides Publishing); and How to think like Plato: An Ancient Guide to the Life of the Mind (Princeton University Press).
Recent articles: "Poets as Philosophers and Philosophers as Poets: Parmenides, Plato, Lucretius.Wordsworth". in W. Wians, ed. "Logoi and Muthoi: Further Essays in Greek Philosophy and Literature" (SUNY Press, Albany, 2019", 319-34; "Introduction", in J. Miller, ed. Lives of the Eminent Philosophers. Diogenes Laertius. Compact edition (Οxford University Press, Oxford, 2020), xv-xxiv; "Politics and Theology in Plato’s Republic: the Form of the Good", in F. Leigh, ed. Themes in Plato, Aristotle and Hellenistic Philosophy. (BICS Suppl. 141, London, 2020), 63-82; "Epicureanism and Utilitarianism", in P. Mitsis, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2020), 742-60; "Natural Catastrophe in Ancient Greek and Roman Thought", in U.Coope and B. Sattler, eds., Ancient Ethics and the Natural World (Oxford University Press, 2021), 49-68; "Pneumatic Episodes from Homer to Galen in D.Fuller, C.Saunders, J. Macnaughton, eds., The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine, Classical to Contemporary (Palgrave Macmillan), 2021), 37-54.
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