Author: Reinhold Urmetzer

Dear Andrew Walsh, I’ve also written a Foreword for the English-language edition of my blog texts for you to translate, attached here. Please also write an Afterword on your own translations, including the problems you had (or didn’t have) with my language. We’ll have to wait a bit more for the dual-language edition and the reprinting of your questions, and...

Xenocrates Collected Writing (after Diogenes Laërtius) Instead of Chrysippus, a later leader of the Stoic School, I’m appending here Xenocrates as an example of the (often abstract) primary topics of Classical philosophy. While the Stoics often gladly occupied themselves with linugistic-analytical studies, the Platonic Academy (at least in its early days) discussed every subject of interest to its founder. The...

In my readings of Aulus Gellius’ Attic Nights (ca. 150AD) I stumbled upon a citation of the Greek master thinkers  Chrysippus of Soli (one of the founders of the Stoic School) with the title On Beauty and Pleasure. Beauty and Pleasure were two essential values in the ancient world and are (or have become) equally so today. For do beauty and...