The Elements in Ancient Philosophy series deals with a wide variety of topics and texts in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, written by leading scholars in the field.

Some Elements will take a theme, question, or type of argument and explore it across antiquity and beyond. Others will look in detail at a particular ancient author, a specific work, or some significant part of a longer work, considering its structure, content, and significance. Still others will explore more directly ancient perspectives on modern philosophical questions. 

These authoritative but accessible studies are aimed at an audience of scholars, graduate students, and more advanced undergraduates in the areas of classics and philosophy. All original Greek and Latin texts will be accompanied by a translation into English.

Series Editor

James Warren is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.  He is the author of Epicurus and Democritean Ethics (Cambridge, 2002), Facing Death: Epicurus and his Critics (2004), Presocratics (2007), The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle and the Hellenistic Hedonists (Cambridge, 2014), Regret: A Study in Ancient Moral Psychology (forthcoming), and a number of articles on a range of topics in ancient philosophy. He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Epicurus (Cambridge, 2009), and joint editor of The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy (2014) and Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy (Cambridge, 2018).

Potential authors for future Elements are encouraged to contact James by email at [email protected].