Anthony A. Long

Anthony Arthur Long , informally also Tony Long , FBA (born August 17, 1937 ) is a British and naturalized American classical philologist and historian of philosophy . He is the retired Irving Stone Professor of Literature at the University of California, Berkeley .

Life

After attending the Manchester Grammar School from 1948 to 1955, Long studied from 1957 to 1960 Classics at University College London . After graduating with first class honors, he earned his PhD there .

Between 1961 and 1971 he was Lecturer in Classics at the University of Otago , New Zealand , the University of Nottingham and University College London, where he was promoted to Reader in 1971 . In 1973 he accepted the position of Gladstone Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool . In 1982 he moved to the University of California at Berkeley as Professor of Classics. In 2013 he retired there, but continues to work scientifically.

In 1992 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy and in 1989 a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2009 he was admitted to the American Philosophical Society .

His PhD candidate during his time at University College London was David Sedley , who later became the seventh Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University .

Long is one of the world's leading specialists in the field of Hellenistic philosophy ( Stoa with Epictetus , Epicurus and Epicureanism , Skepticism ).

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Language and Thought in Sophocles. A Study of Abstract Nouns and Poetic Technique. Athlone Press, London 1968.
• Hellenistic Philosophy. Stoics, Epicureans, Skceptics. Gerald Duckworth and Charles Scribner's Sons, London / New York 1974.
• with David Sedley: The Hellenistic Philosophers. Volume 1: The principal sources in translation with philosophical commentary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1987.
• with David Sedley: The Hellenistic Philosophers. Volume 2: Greek and Latin texts with notes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1987.
  • German translation of Volume 1: The Hellenistic Philosophers. Texts and comments. Translated by Karlheinz Hülser . JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2000.
• with Pamela M. Huby and William Wall Fortenbaugh : Theophrastus of Eresus. On His Life and Work. New Brunswick / Oxford, 1985.
• with Guido Bastianini : Ierocle. In: Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e Latini . Volume 1, Florence 1992, pp. 268-441.
• Stoic Studies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996.
• Epictetus. A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life. Clarendon Press, Oxford 2002.
• From Epicurus to Epictetus: Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Greek Models of Mind and Self. Harvard University Press, 2015.
• with Margaret Graver: Seneca: Letters on Ethics. Chicago University Press, 2015.

Editorships

• (Ed.): Problems in Stoicism. Athlone Press, London 1971.
• (Ed. With John M. Dillon ): The Question of Eclecticism. Studies in later Greek Philosophy. University of California Press, Berkeley 1988.
• (Ed. With AW Bulloch, ES Gruen, A. Stewart): Images and Ideologies: Self-definition in the Hellenistic World. University of California Press, Berkeley 1994, (online) .
• (Ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999.
  • German translation: Handbook of Early Greek Philosophy. From Thales to the Sophists. Translated from the English by Karlheinz Hülser . JB Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2001.

Web links

• Personal page on the University of California at Berkeley website (with photograph)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berkeley Classics News - Tony Long retires July 29, 2013
2. ^ Member History: Anthony A. Long. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 5, 2019 (with biographical notes).