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David Sedley's publications relevant to this project include: 'Philosophical allegiance in the Greco-Roman world', in M. Griffin, J. Barnes (eds.), Philosophia Togata (Oxford 1989), 97-119; 'Plato's auctoritas and the rebirth of the commentary tradition', in J. Barnes, M. Griffin (eds.), Philosophia Togata II, Plato and Aristotle at Rome (Oxford 1997), 110-29; 'The ethics of Brutus and Cassius', Journal of Roman Studies 87 (1997), 41-53; Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom (Cambridge, 1998); and 'Philodemus and the decentralisation of philosophy', Cronache Ercolanesi 33 (2003), 31-41.

For a full list, see his web page: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sedley/index.html

A well-known writer on many areas of ancient philosophy. His most recent publication on philosophy in the first century BC is 'Aenesidemus: Pyrrhonist and "Heraclitean"', in A.M. Ioppolo & D.N. Sedley (eds.), Pyrrhonists, Patricians, Platonizers: Hellenistic Philosophy in the period 155-86 BC (Rome 2007) 269-338. He is currently working mainly on Cicero, where his most recent publications are 'Cicero, Zeno of Citium, and the vocabulary of philosophy', in M.Canto-Sperber & P.Pellegrin (eds.), Le Style de la pensée: Recueil de textes en hommage à J.Brunschwig  (Paris 2002) 412-28, and 'Academic therapy: Philo of Larissa and Cicero's project in the Tusculans', in E.G.Clark and T.Rajak (eds.), Philosophy and Power: Festschrift M.Griffin  (Oxford 2002) 91-109. More Cicero articles are in the pipeline, and slightly further down the road will be a general book on the philosophy of Cicero commissioned by Polity Press.

Roberto Polito's publications include studies on the supposedly first-century BC physician Asclepiades of Bithynia ('Frail or Monolithic? A note on Asclepiades' corpuscles', Classical Quarterly (forthcoming); 'Matter. Medicine and the Mind: Asclepiades versus Epicurus', OSAP 30 (2006), 285-336; 'On the Life of Asclepiades of Bithynia', JHS 119 (1999), 48-66, and on the Sceptic philosopher Aenesidemus of Cnossus ( The Sceptical Road: Aenesidemus' appropriation of Heraclitus , Leiden, 2004; 'Enesidemo e Tuberone', Hyperboreus 8 (2002), 145-158). He is currently working on an edition of the fragments of Aenesidemus.