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Works in Progress
  • Passions and Progress in Greco-Roman Thought. John Fitzgerald, editor. To be published by Routledge.
  • Cornutus: A Cursory Examination of the Traditions of Greek Theology (Theologiae Graecae Compendium): text, translation, and commentary, ed. by David Armstrong, Pamela Gordon, Loveday Alexander, and L. Michael White.
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Recommended Reading
Hellenistic Moral Philosophy
  • Griffin, Miriam and Jonathan Barnes, ed. Philosophia Togata: Essays on Philosophy and Roman Society. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.
  • Malherbe, Abraham J. "Hellenistic Moralists and the New Testament." Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.26.1 (1992): 267-333.
  • ________. Paul and the Thessalonians : The Philosophic Tradition of Pastoral Care. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987.
  • ________. Paul and the Popular Philosophers. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989.
  • Nussbaum, Martha C. The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Friendship
  • Fitzgerald, John T. "Philippians in the Light of Some Ancient Discussions of Friendship." In friendship, Flattery, and Frankness of Speech, 141-60.
  • ________. "Friendship in the Greek World Prior to Aristotle." In Greco-Roman Perspectives on Friendship, 13-34.
  • Konstan, David. Friendship in the Classical World, Key Themes in Ancient History. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Thom, Johan C. "'Harmonious Equality' : The Topos of Friendship in Neopythagorean Writings." In Greco-Roman Perspectives on Friendship, 77-103.
Frank Speech
  • Glad, Clarence E. Paul and Philodemus: Adaptability in Epicurean and Early Christian Psychagogy. Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 81. Leiden: Brill, 1995.
Philodemus
  • .Clay, Diskin. "The Cult of Epicurus: An Interpretation of Philodemus, on Epicurus (Pherc. 1232) and Other Texts."In Atti Del Xvii Congresso Internazionale Di Papirologia, 677-79. Napoli, 1983.
  • ________. "Individual and Community in the First Generation of the Epicurean School." In Suzhthsis Studi Sull’ Epicureismo Greco E Romano Offerti a Marcello Gigante, 255-79. Napoli: Gaetano Macchiaroli, 1983.
  • Gigante, Marcello. Philodemus in Italy: The Books from Herculaneum. Trans., Dirk Obbink. Ann Arbor: Univrsity of Michigan Press, 1995.
  • ________. La bibliothèque de Philodème et l'épicurisme romain. Préface de Pierre Grimal. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1987.
Passions/Emotions
  • Gaca, Kathy L. Making of Fornication : Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity. Berkeley: Univ of California Press, 2003.
  • Konstan, David. Pity Transformed, Classical Inter/Faces. London: Duckworth, 2001.
  • Konstan, David, and N. K. Rutter. Envy, Spite and Jealousy : The Rivalrous Emotions in Ancient Greece, Edinburgh Leventis Studies Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003.
Piety/Impiety
  • Attridge, Harold W. "The Philosophical Critique of Religion under the Early Empire." Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.16.1 (1978): 45-78.
  • Obbink, Dirk. "Poxy.215 and Epicurean Religious theuria." In Atti Del Xvii Congresso Internzionale Di Papirologia, 607-19. Napoli, 1984.
  • ________. "The Atheism of Epicurus." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 30 (1989): 187-223.
  • ________. Philodemus On Piety. Critical Text with Commentary. Oxford, New York: Clarendon Press, 1996.
Allegory
  • Dawson, David. Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
  • Most, G.W. "Cornutus and Stoic Allegoresis: A Preliminary Report." Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt II.36.3 (1989): 2014-2065.
Of Interest
  • Engberg-Pedersen, Troels. The Stoic Theory of Oikeiosis : Moral Development and Social Interaction in Early Stoic Philosophy, Studies in Hellenistic Civilization 2. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 1990.
  • ________. Paul and the Stoics. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000.
  • Fitzgerald, John T. Cracks in an Earthen Vessel : An Examination of the Catalogues of Hardships in the Corinthian Correspondence, Dissertation Series (Society of Biblical Literature) No. 99. Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press, 1988.
  • Frischer, Bernard. The Sculpted Word : Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment in Ancient Greece. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
  • Gordon, Pamela. Epicurus in Lycia : The Second-Century World of Diogenes of Oenoanda. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
  • Stowers, Stanley K. "Social Status, Public Speaking and Private Teaching: The Circumstances of Paul's Preaching Activity." Novum Testamentum 26 (1984): 59-82.
  • ________. " Paul on the Use and Abuse of Reason. ." In Greeks, Romans, and Christians, 253-86. Minneapolis: Fortress Pr, 1990.
  • ________. " Romans 7:7-25 as a Speech-in-Character Prosÿpopoia. ." In Paul in His Hellenistic Context , 180-202. Minneapolis: Fortress Pr, 1995.
  • Thom, Johan C. Cleanthes' Hymn to Zeus:Text, Translation, and Commentary (Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity). Mohr Siebeck, 2005.
  • ________. "Don't Walk on the Highways": The Pythagorean Akousmata and Early Christian Literature." Journal of Biblical Literature 113 Spr (1994): 93-112.
  • ________. The Pythagorean Golden Verses: With Introduction and Commentary religions in the Graeco-Roman World ; 123 Leiden: E J Brill, 1995.
  • White, L. Michael. The Social Origins of Christian Architecture. 2 vols. Valley Forge, Pa.: Trinity Press, 1996.
 
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