What is happiness? How is it related to pleasure? Is it within everyone's power to achieve? Or is the good life available only to those who are rich and powerful? This volume contains penetrating studies of these topics in ancient philosophy deriving from two recent inter-national academic conferences. Part of the stimulus to such work today is our own need to confront the same questions that the ancients did. Many Greek philosophers answered: happiness depends upon virtue. Conceptions of virtue and vice throw significant light on Graeco-Roman achievements, while recently moral philosophers have been comparing ancient virtue ethics with modern alternatives. These papers address both those interested in classical antiquity and philosophy today.

Contributors: Benjamin Gibbs, Dougal Blyth, Patrick Yong, Sumi Sivaratnam, Julie Vaux, Fiona Leigh, Harold Tarrant, Dirk Baltzly, T.D.J. Chappell, Soon Ng, Stephen Gardiner, Adriane Rini, R.G. Tanner, Arthur Pomeroy & Joseph Shaw.

xiii plus 390 pages; ISBN 0-9582211-5-4; Publication July 2001

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