My Publications

You can find more details and links to some of these papers on my Academia.edu page.


Books

2002
Epicurus and Democritean ethics: an archaeology of ataraxia, Cambridge Classical Studies, Cambridge University Press (Paperback edition, 2006)

2004
Facing death: Epicurus and his critics, Oxford University Press (Paperback edition, 2006)

2007
Presocratics, published in the UK by Acumen Press and the US by University of California Press
(Italian translation by Guido Bonino, I Presocratici, published by Einaudi in 2009)

2009
The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism, Cambridge University Press (editor)

2014
The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy, Routledge (joint editor with Frisbee C. C. Sheffield)


The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists, Cambridge University Press

Articles

2000
a. “Diogenes Epikourios: keep taking the tablets” in Journal of Hellenic Studies 120: 144-8
b. “Epicurean Immortality” in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 18: 231-61
c. “Aristocles' refutations of Pyrrhonism (Eus. PE 14.18.1-10)” in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 46: 140-64

2001
a. “Lucretian palingenesis recycled” in Classical Quarterly 51: 499-508
b. “Socratic suicide” in Journal of Hellenic Studies 121: 91-106
c. “Epicurus' dying wishes” in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 47: 23-46
d. “Lucretius, Symmetry arguments, and fearing death” in Phronesis 46: 466-91
e. “Epicurus and the pleasures of the future” in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 21: 135-79

2002
a. “Democritus, the Epicureans, death, and dying” in Classical Quarterly 52: 193-206
b. “Socratic scepticism in Plutarch's adversus Colotem” in Elenchos 23: 333-56
c. “Lucretius the Epicurean poet” in Omnibus 44: 24-5

2003
“Sextus Empiricus and the tripartition of time” in Phronesis 48: 313-43

2004
a. “Ancient atomists on the plurality of worlds” in Classical Quarterly 54: 354-65
b. “Socrates and Colotes” in V. Karasmanis ed. Socrates, 2400 years since his death (International Symposium Proceedings, Athens-Delphi 13-21 July 2001) Delphi: 419-27 (an early version of 2002b)

2006
a. “Psychic disharmony: Epicurus and Philoponus on Plato's Phaedo” in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 30: 235-59
b. Bibliographical note to P. De Lacey, “The Epicurean school” in D. Borchert ed. Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2nd edition) Macmillan Reference , Detroit
c. “Epicureans and the present past” in Phronesis 51: 362-87
d. “Cynicism”, “Diotima”, “Divisibility”, “Emotion”, “Epicureanism”, “Epicurus”, “Ethics”, “Fear”, “Free will”, “Herakleitos”, “Immortality”, “Kosmos”, “Xenophanes” – entries in L. Foxhall, D. Mattingley, and G. Shipley eds. The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilisation Cambridge University Press
e. “Democritus on social and psychological harm” in P.-M. Morel and A. Brancacci eds. Democritus: science, the arts, and the care of the soul , E. J. Brill: 87-104

2007
a. “Anaxagoras on perception, pleasure and pain” in Oxford studies in Ancient Philosophy 33: 19-54
b. “Diogenes Laërtius, biographer of philosophy” for J. König and T. J. G. Whitmarsh eds. Ordering knowledge in the Roman empire, Cambridge University Press: 133-149
c. “Lucretius and Greek philosophy” in S. Gillespie and P. Hardie eds. The Cambridge companion to Lucretius, Cambridge University Press:
d. “L'éthique” in A. Gigandet and P.-M. Morel eds. Lire Épicure et les épicuriens, PUF: 117-43

2008
a. “Philosophy as a preparation for death in Plato’s PhaedoOmnibus 55
b. “On defending Socrates” in Think 17/18: 99–101

2009
a. “Aristotle on Speusippus on Eudoxus on pleasure” in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 36: 249–81
b. “Introduction” ” in J. Warren ed. The Cambridge companion to Epicureanism, Cambridge University Press: 1–8
c. “Removing fear” in J. Warren ed. The Cambridge companion to Epicureanism, Cambridge University Press: 234–48

2010
“Plato on the pleasures and pains of knowing” in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 39: 1–32

2011
a.  “Socrates and the patients: Republic IX 583c–585a” in Phronesis 56: 113–37
b.  “Pleasure, Plutarch’s Non Posse, and Plato’s Republic” in Classical Quarterly 61: 278–93
c.  “What god didn’t know: Sextus Empiricus AM 9.162–6” in D. Machuca ed. New Essays on Ancient Pyrrhonism. Brill: 41-68
d. “La filosofia ellenistica: luoghi, modi e caratteristiche ” in U. Eco ed. La Grande Storia: L’Antichità,  05 Grecia: filosofia, Milan: 464-81
e.  “Epicureismo” in U. Eco ed. La Grande Storia: L’Antichità,  05 Grecia: filosofia, Milan: 482-97

2012
a. "Foreword" to W. K. C. Guthrie The Greek Philosophers, Routledge, vii-xiii
b. “Plato and marshmallows” in Omnibus 64: 13-14

2013
a. “Gods and men in Xenophanes” in V. Harte and M. Lane eds. Politieia in Greek and Roman Philosophy (Festschrift for Malcolm Schofield), Cambridge, CUP: 294–312
b. Plutarch's Adversus Colotem and the Cyrenaics: 1120C-1121E”, Aitia [En ligne], 3 | 2013, mis en ligne le 30 mai 2013, URL : http://aitia.revues.org/706 ; DOI : 10.4000/aitia.706
c. “The harm of death in Cicero’s first Tusculan Disputation” in J. Stacey Taylor ed. The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death, Oxford, OUP: 44-70
d. “Comparing lives in Plato Laws V” in Phronesis 58: 319-46
e. “Epicureans and Cyrenaics on pleasure as a pathos” in Stéphane Marchand and Francesco Verde (eds.) Épicurisme et Scepticisme, Rome: Sapienza Università Editrice: 127-45


2014
a. “Introduction” in J. Warren and F. C. C. Sheffield eds. The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy, London: xxiii-xxvi
b. “Hellenistic philosophy: places, institutions, character” in J. Warren and F. C. C. Sheffield eds. The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy, London (English version of 2011d): 393-8
c. “Cyrenaics” in J. Warren and F. C. C. Sheffield eds. The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy, London: 409-22
d. “The Symmetry Problem” in Stephen Luper ed. The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death, Cambridge, CUP: 165-80
e. “Epicurus and the unity of the virtues” in B. Collette-Dučić and S. Delcomminette eds. Unité et origine des vertus dans la philosophie de l’Antiquité, Ousia/Vrin: 213-36


2015
a. “Precursors of Pyrrhonism: DL 9.67–73” in K. Vogt ed. Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius (SAPERE 25), Mohr-Siebeck, Göttingen: 105–122
b. “Coming-to-be and passing-away” in K. Algra and K. Ierodiakonou eds. Sextus Empiricus and Ancient Physics, Cambridge, CUP: 365-402
c. “The bloom of youth” in Apeiron 48: 327-45

2016
“Epicurean pleasure in Cicero’s De Finibus” in J. Annas and G. Betegh eds. Cicero’s De Finibus. Philosophical Perspectives, Cambridge, CUP: 41–76

forthcoming:
a. “Memory, anticipation, pleasure” in F. Leigh ed. Moral Psychology in Ancient Thought (the 2011 UCL Keeling Colloquium)
b. “Plato” in S. Golob and J. Timmermann eds. The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy, Cambridge, CUP
c. “Death” in R. Fletcher and W. H. Shearin eds. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy, Oxford, OUP
d. “Epicureans on hidden beliefs” in F. Leigh ed. Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy, Oxford, OUP
e. “Demetrius of Laconia and Epicurus On the Telos (Us. 68)” in J. Bryan, R. Wardy and J. Warren eds. Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy, Cambridge, CUP
f. “Socrates and the symmetry argument” in A. G. Long ed. Immortality and its Alternatives in Ancient Thought
g. “Early learning in Plato Republic VII” in G. Betegh and V. Tsouna eds. The Notion of Concept in Greek Philosophy