pt. 1: lecture 1. The world of the Greco-Roman moralists --
lecture 2. How empire changed philosophy --
lecture 3. The great schools and their battles --
lecture 4. Dominant themes and metaphors --
lecture 5. The ideal philosopher : a composite portrait --
lecture 6. The charlatan : philosophy betrayed --
lecture 7. Philosophy satirized : the comic Lucian --
lecture 8. Cicero : the philosopher as politician --
lecture 9. Seneca : philosopher as court advisor --
lecture 10. Good Roman advice : Cicero and Seneca --
lecture 11. Musonius Rufus : the Roman Socrates --
lecture 12. Dio Chrysostom : the wandering rhetorician.
pt. 2: lecture 13. Dio Chrysostom : preaching peace and piety --
lecture 14. Epictetus : philosopher as school teacher --
lecture 15. Epictetus : the stoic path to virtue --
lecture 16. Epictetus : the messenger of Zeus --
lecture 17. Marcus Aurelius : meditations of the king --
lecture 18. Jews thinking like Greeks --
lecture 19. Philo : Judaism as Greek philosophy --
lecture 20. Plutarch : biography as moral instruction --
lecture 21. Plutarch and philosophical religion --
lecture 22. Plutarch on virtue and educating children --
lecture 23. Plutarch : envy, anger, and talking too much --
lecture 24. The missing page in philosophy's story.
