Ebook: Death And Immortality In Ancient Philosophy

Death and immortality played a central role in Greek and Roman
thought, from Homer and early Greek philosophy to Marcus
Aurelius. In this book A. G. Long explains the significance of death
and immortality in ancient ethics, particularly Plato’s dialogues,
Stoicism and Epicureanism; he also shows how philosophical cosmology
and theology caused immortality to be reimagined. Ancient
arguments and theories are related both to the original literary and
theological contexts and to contemporary debates on the philosophy
of death. The book will be of major interest to scholars and students
working on Greek and Roman philosophy, and to those wishing to
explore ancient precursors of contemporary debates about death and
its outcomes.