The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics

The Stoics have come down to us in the terms “stoic” and “stoical”, as meaning holding firm and uncomplaining in the face of adversity. Yet there is far more to it than that as this Companion makes clear. Brad Inwood (Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto, who has written on Stoic ethics and edited a useful work on introductory readings in Hellenistic philosophy) has assembled a group of strong names here in order to reveal the complexity of Stoicism as well as its transmission and heritage. What we have as a result is a first‐class introduction to the...