This course compares and contrast rival claims about ethics in ancient Greece and Rome, starting with Plato and Aristotle and encompassing later Hellenistic schools of thought such as Stoicism, Skepticism, Epicureanism, Cynicism, and Neo-Platonism. Students may consider the appropriation of classical ethics by theologians committed to Abrahamic religions such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in later antiquity, as well as the revival of classical schools of thought such as Stoicism in the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the present day. Students may also consider non-Western analogues.