April 2005
PLS professor writes new book on Roman Stoics
By: Susan Guibert
“The Roman Stoics: Self, Responsibility, and Affection,”
by Gretchen Reydams-Schils from the University of Notre Dame, has been published by the University of Chicago Press.
The rigorous self-examination, reason and virtue practiced by the Roman Stoics allowed them to integrate philosophy into the practice of living. Reydams-Schils shows how they applied their distinct brand of social ethics to everyday relationships that guided their roles as friends, spouses and parents.
A member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1994, Reydams-Schils is an associate professor in the Program of Liberal Studies, specializing in ancient philosophy with a particular focus on Stoicism and Platonists. She also has written “An Anthology of Snakebites” and edited “Plato’s Timaeus as Cultural Icon.”
Reydams-Schils also serves as director for Notre Dame’s Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts.
Contact Gretchen Reydams-Schils at Gretchen.J.Reydams-Schils.1@nd.edu