A. A. Long
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Anthony Arthur Long is a British
United Kingdom
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 and naturalised American
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 classical scholar and Professor
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 of Classics
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 and Irving Stone
Irving Stone
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 Professor of Literature at the University of California, Berkeley
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.

Long was educated at Manchester Grammar School
Manchester Grammar School
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 (1948–1955) and University College, London (1957–1960) where he took a first class honours degree
Academic degree
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 in Classics and was subsequently awarded a PhD
Doctor of Philosophy
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 degree.

Between 1961 and 1971 he held lecturer
Lecturer
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 positions in Classics at University of Otago
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, New Zealand, the University of Nottingham
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 and University College, London, where in 1971 he was promoted to the position of Reader
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. In 1973 Long moved to the University of Liverpool
University of Liverpool
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 to take up the post of Gladstone Professor of Greek
Gladstone Professor of Greek
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, a position he held until assuming his current position of Professor of Classics at University of California, Berkeley in 1982. While at University College, London he supervised the doctoral thesis of David Sedley
David Sedley
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, the seventh Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy
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 at Cambridge University.

He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1992.

Publications

Books
  • Language and Thought in Sophocles. A Study of Abstract Nouns and Poetic Technique (Athlone Press, London, 1968)
  • Problems in Stoicism
    Stoicism
    Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early . The Stoics taught that destructive emotions resulted from errors in judgment, and that a sage, or person of "moral and intellectual perfection," would not suffer such emotions.Stoics were concerned...

    , (editor) (Athlone Press, London, 1971)
  • Hellenistic Philosophy. Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics (Gerald Duckworth and Charles Scribner's Sons, London and New York, 1974)
  • The Hellenistic Philosophers. vol. 1 The principal sources in translation with philosophical commentary with D.N.Sedley
    David Sedley
    David Neil Sedley is the seventh Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University.Sedley was educated at Trinity College, Oxford where he was awarded a first class honours degree in Literae Humaniores in 1969...

     (Cambridge University Press, 1987)
  • The Hellenistic Philosophers Vol. 2 Greek and Latin texts with notes with D.N.Sedley (Cambridge University Press, 1987)
  • Theophrastus
    Theophrastus
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    of Eresus. On His Life and Work, (co-editor with P.M. Huby and W.W. Fortenbaugh), (New Brunswick and Oxford, 1985)
  • The Question of Eclecticism. Studies in later Greek Philosophy, (co-editor with J. Dillon) (University of California Press, 1988)
  • Ierocle, with G. Bastianini, in Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e Latini, vol. 1 (Florence, 1992): pp. 268–441
  • Images and Ideologies: Self-definition in the Hellenistic World, (co-editor with A.W. Bulloch, E.S. Gruen, A. Stewart) (University of California Press, 1993)
  • Stoic Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
  • The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy, (editor) (Cambridge University Press, 1999): pp. xxxii+413 translated into German (2001)
  • Epictetus
    Epictetus
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    . A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2002)
  • From Epicurus to Epictetus: Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2006)
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