Elizabeth Asmis

Professor, Department of Classics
University of Chicago
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PUBLICATIONS

Book

Epicurus' Scientific Method. Cornell University Press, 1984.

Book Reviews

Robert B. Palmer and Robert Hamerton-Kelly, eds. Philomathes: Studies and Essays in the Humanities in Memory of Philip Merlan. In Classical World 66 (1972): 179-80.

J. M. Rist. Epicurus: An Introduction. In Philosophical Review 83 (1974): 413-16.

Edward Hussey. The Presocratics. In Philosophical Review 84 (1975): 287-90.

Owsei Temkin. Galenism. Rise and Decline of a Medical Philosophy. In Philosophical Review 84 (1975): 567-70.

David E. Hahm. The Origin of Stoic Cosmology. In Philosophical Review 87 (1978): 620-23.

Diskin Clay. Lucretius and Epicurus. In Journal of the History of Philosophy 23 (1985): 424-25.

Philip De Lacy and Estelle De Lacy. Philodemus: On Methods of Inference. In Ancient Philosophy 6 (1986): 51-55.

Richard D. Mohr. The Platonic Cosmology. In Phoenix 41 (1987): 89-90.

Guido Bonelli. I motivi profondi della poesia lucreziana. In Gnomon 1987, 160-62.

Sven-Tage Teodorsson. Anaxagoras's Theory of Matter. In International Studies in Philosophy 20 (1988): 116.

G. E. R. Lloyd. Revolutions of Wisdom. In Philosophical Review 100 (1991):321-324.

M. Griffin and J. Barnes, eds. Philosophia Togata. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. In Ancient Philosophy 11 (1991):223-225.

A. S. L. Farquharson, tr. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Oxford 1989; and R. B. Rutherford, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Oxford 1989. In Ancient Philosophy 13 (1993): 475-80.

Richard Janko, ed. and tr. Philodemus'On Poems Book I. In Classical Philology 97 (2002): 383-94.

Articles

"What is Anaximander's Apeiron?". Journal of the History of Philosophy 19 (1981): 279-297.

"Lucretius' Explanation of Moving Dream Figures at 4.768-776". American Journal of Philology 102 (1981): 138-145.

"Lucretius' Venus and Stoic Zeus". Hermes 110 (1982): 458-470.

"Rhetoric and Reason in Lucretius". American Journal of Philology 104 (1983): 36-66.

"Psychagogia in Plato's Phaedrus". Illinois Studies in Classical Philology 11 (1986): 153-72.

"Roman Philosophical Movements". In Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean, edited by Michael Grant, v. 3, New York 1988, 1637-1649.

"The Stoicism of Marcus Aurelius". In Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt, part II, v. 36.3, Berlin 1989, 2228-2252.

"Philodemus' Epicureanism". In Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt, part II, v. 36.4, ed. by W. Haase, Berlin 1990, 2369-2406.

"The Poetic Theory of the Stoic 'Aristo'". Apeiron 23 (1990): 147-201.

"Seneca on the Happy Life". In The Poetics of Therapy, ed. by M. Nussbaum, Apeiron 23 (1990): 219-255.

"Free Action and the Swerve." Review article of Walter G. Englert's Epicurus on the Swerve and Voluntary Action. In Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 8 (1990): 269-285.

"Philodemus' Poetic Theory and 'On the Good King According to Homer'". Classical Antiquity, 10 (1991): 1-45.

"Epicurean Poetics". In Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 7, 1991, pp. 63-93. Reprinted in Philodemus and Poetry: Poetic Theory and Practice in Lucretius, Philodemus and Horace, ed. by D. Obbink, Oxford University Press, 1995.

"Crates on Poetic Criticism". Phoenix. 46 (1991): 138-69.

"Neoptolemus and the Classification of Poetry". Classical Philology 87 (1992): 206-31.

"Plato on Poetic Creativity". In The Cambridge Companion to Plato, edited by Richard Kraut. 338-64. Cambridge University Press, 1992.

"An Epicurean Survey of Poetic Theories (Philodemus On Poems 5, cols. 26-36)". Classical Quarterly 42 (1992): 395-415.

“Asclepiades Rediscovered?” Review article of J. T. Vallance, The Lost Theory of Asclepiades of Bithynia Oxford 1992. In Classical Philology 88 (1993): 137-48.

“Philodemus on Censorship, Moral Utility, and Formalism on Poetry”. In Philodemus and Poetry: Poetic Theory and Practice in Lucretius, Philodemus and Horace, ed. by D. Obbink. 148-77. Oxford University Press, 1995.

Foreword to: Mark Usher, Texts and Their Transformations: Continuity and Change to the Classical Tradition, Chicago 1994, pp. xi-xii.

“Epicurean Semiotics”. In Knowledge Through Signs, Ancient Semiotic Theories and Practices, ed. by G. Manetti. 155-85. Brepols, 1995.

“The Stoics on Women”. In Ancient Philosophy and Feminism, ed. by J. Ward. 68-94. Routledge, 1996.

“Lucretius on the Growth of Ideas”. In Epicureismo greco e romano,Atti del Congresso internazionale Napoli, 19-26 maggio 1993, ed. by M. Gigante. 3 vols. Vol. 2, 763-78. Naples, 1996.

Articles on Epicurus, Panaetius, Philodemus, Seneca, and Epictetus, in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. D. Zeyl, Greenwood Press, 1997

“Hellenistic Aesthetics. Philosophers and Literary Critics”. Article in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly. Vol. 2, 389-91. Oxford University Press, 1998.

“Inner Selves and Outer Selves”. Response to Burkert, W. “Towards Plato and Paul: The ‘Inner’ Human Being.” In Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Bible and Culture, ed. A. Y. Collins. 83-87. Atlanta, 1998.

"Epicurean Epistemology". Forthcoming in Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy, edited by Jonathan Barnes, Jaap Mansfeld, and Malcolm Schofield, Cambridge University Press.

“The Politician as Public Servant in Cicero's De Republica “. In Cicéron et Philodème. La Polémique en philosophie, edited by Clara Auvray -Assayas and Daniel Delattre. Paris, 2001. Pp. 109-128.

"Basic Education in Epicureanism". In Education in Greek and Roman Antiquity, edited by Yun Lee Too. Brill 2001. Pp. 209-39.

"Choice in Epictetus' Philosophy". In Antiquity and Humanity: Essays on Ancient Religion and Philosophy presented to Hans Dieter Betz on his 70th Birthday, edited by Adela Yarbro Collins and Margaret M. Mitchell, Tuebingen: 2001. Pp. 385-412.

“Epicurean Economics”. Forthcoming in Philodemus and the New Testament World, edited by John T. Fitzgerald, Glenn Holland, and Dirk Obbink. Supplements to Novum Testamentum. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2003.

"Sound and Sense in Philodemus' Poetics." Cronache Ercolanesi 34 (2004): 5-27.

"L'education épicurienne" . In Que reste-t-il de l'education classique? Edited by Jean-Marie Pailler and Pascal Payen. Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2004. Pp. 211-18.

"The State as a Partnership: Cicero's Definition of res publica in his work On the State." Forthcoming in History of Political Thought.

"A New Kind of Model: Cicero's Roman Constitution in De republica." Forthcoming in American Journal of Philology.

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