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cover of L. Annaeus Cornutus: Greek Theology, Fragments, and Testimonia

L. Annaeus Cornutus

Greek Theology, Fragments, and Testimonia

George Boys-Stones

SBL Press, 2018

The first English translation of Greek Theology

The first-century CE North African philosopher Cornutus lived in Rome as a philosopher and is best known today for his surviving work Greek Theology, which explores the origins and names of the Greek gods. However, he was also interested in the language and literature of the poets Persius and Lucan and wrote one of the first commentaries on Virgil. This book collects and translates all of our evidence for Cornutus for the first time and includes the first published English translation of Greek Theology. This collection offers entirely fresh insight into the intellectual world of the first century.

Features

  • Translation based on the latest critical text
  • The first truly holistic picture of Cornutus’s intellectual profile
  • A new account of the early debate over Aristotle’s Categories and the Stoic contribution to it
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cover of Persius: A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural

Persius

A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural

Shadi Bartsch

University of Chicago Press, 2015

The Roman poet and satirist Persius (34–62 CE) was unique among his peers for lampooning literary and social conventions from a distinctly Stoic point of view. A curious amalgam of mocking wit and philosophy, his Satires are rife with violent metaphors and unpleasant imagery and show little concern for the reader’s enjoyment or understanding.

In Persius, Shadi Bartsch explores this Stoic framework and argues that Persius sets his own bizarre metaphors of food, digestion, and sexuality against more appealing imagery to show that the latter—and the poetry containing  it—harms rather than helps its audience. Ultimately, he encourages us to abandon metaphor altogether in favor of the non-emotive abstract truths of Stoic philosophy, to live in a world where neither alluring poetry, nor rich food, nor sexual charm play a role in philosophical teaching.
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