travelled ancient authors. The book both requires and rewards careful study (...). Long divides the volume into two parts: 'Immortality' and 'Death.' As I understand it, Long has at least two good reasons for inverting the order. First, Long wants to foreground the point that immortality is, to borrow Aristotle's catchphrase, 'said in many ways.' While contemporary readers might think that the immortality at stake is the everlastingness of our individual selves, the ancient poets and philosophers were willing to consider a wide range of immortalities, including the possibility that neither humans nor gods are everlasting, though their long-lastingness might make them 'immortal' in some meaningful sense. (...) A second reason Long inverts the natural order of explanation is that it allows him to trouble the simple interpretive narrative that many readers might expect. On the standard account, Plato's philosopher believes in an immaterial soul and eagerly anticipates a personal, everlasting immortality. Epicurus, on the other hand, faces death fearlessly despite certainty of annihilation, rejecting talk of immortality as bad science. With more varieties of immortality on offer, Long can draw attention to the fact that Epicurus attributes immortality to the gods and, in some sense at least, to the best living Epicureans. (...) Long's willingness to complicate traditional conceptions of Plato and Epicurus, as well as Aristotle and the Stoics, spans both sections of the book. In Part Two, 'Death,' Long explores whether doubt creeps into even Plato's paradigmatic defenses of personal immortality, and he suggests that Epicurus might think some fears of death are ineliminable and even natural.(...) The book is certainly a proper survey in that it covers a wide body of texts. Plato gets the most attention. Long engages at some length with the Phaedrus, Symposium, Timaeus, Apology, Phaedo, and Laws. (...) Long's willingness to complicate Epicurus's moral psychology is, I think, one of the strongest parts of the book. (...) In sum, Long's book offers an argumentatively rich and wide-ranging treatment of a central theme in Ancient Greek metaphysics, ethics, and psychology. It is absolutely essential for anyone interested in serious research on the topic.' (EMILY AUSTIN in Notredame Philosophical Reviews, 22.03.2020).