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Today's episode will be an interview with Tony Long, professor of Classics and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy at University of California Berkeley.

Hi Tony, thanks for coming.

Hi Peter.

So what we're going to be talking about in this interview will be the self and Hellenistic philosophy as a kind of crowning moment for this whole series of episodes on heenistic philosophy.

Can you begin by telling us just what you mean by the self in this context?

The best way to start I think is from the Greek word

Psuke,, psyche, which has given rise to our word psychology.

To go back to the very beginning of our recorded literary history, in the poems of Homer in the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Psyche is what leaves the body when the person dies.

Psyche in the Homeric poems is something like a ghost,

except that the ghost that survives the death of the body is what we might call

an ex-person. The reason I bring this up is because self, I think, in the Greek context that we're going to talk about, is primarily thought of as something like the person, the character, rather than the fully embodied human being.

It's an aspect of the human being, what we might call the mental, the moral,

the psychological aspect of a human being.

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