About

John Sellars is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London, where he is associated with the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project, which he has worked on on-and-off since 2003. Previously he has taught at Birkbeck, University of London, both as a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and as a Fellow of the London Consortium graduate programme. From 2004 to 2007 he was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, and he remains a member of Common Room of Wolfson.

His first book, The Art of Living: The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy, was published in 2003, with a second edition in 2009. His second book, Stoicism, came out in 2006 and has been described by reviewers as ‘excellent’, ‘outstanding’, and ‘the best introduction to the subject’. His third book, Hellenistic Philosophy, is published by Oxford University Press in 2018. He has also edited a number of volumes, most recently The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition, published in 2016.

The central focus of his research has been Stoicism and its subsequent reception. He has a particular interest in Roman Stoicism and has contributed to Blackwell’s Companion to Marcus Aurelius and Brill’s Companion to Seneca, as well as compiling bibliographies on Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius for Oxford Bibliographies Online. He is also a contributor to The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy and editor of a new book series devoted to Roman Philosophy with University of Pennsylvania Press.