Preface to the
Second Edition
This revised and expanded edition gives us the opportunity to provide
a more generous selection of texts than we were able to include in the
first edition. The expansion and consolidation of Epicurean material in
part I corresponds to the selections in The Epicurus Reader. The additional
material in part II includes the first English translation of the doxography
of Stoic ethics attributed to Arius Didymus which is preserved in the
works of John Stobaeus; substantial additional material from Plutarch,
Galen, and Seneca is also found in part II. Part III contains a comparably
expanded selection of texts. The addition of this material and some
slight rearrangements have necessitated a complete renumbering of the
selections. We are grateful to Rodney Ast for his careful work on the
adaptation of the General Index.
We would like to thank Oxford University Press for their permission
to include here several translations first published in Brad Inwood's Ethics
and Human Action (Oxford 1985).
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