Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Citations and Abbreviations
Part One: General
1: Hellenistic ethics and philosophical power
2: Hellenistics ethics as the art of life
Part Two: Scepticism
3: Aristotle and the history of Greek scepticism
4: Timon: Pyrrhonist and satirist Timon: Pyrrhonist and Timon: Pyrrhonist and satirist Timon: Pyrrhonist and satirist Timon: Pyrrhonist and satirist
5: Arcesilaus in his time and place
6: Scepticism about gods in Hellenistic philosophy
7: Astrology: arguments pro and contra
Part Three: Epicureanism
8: Chance and laws of nature in Epicureanism
9: Lucretius and the Epicurean self
10: Pleasure and social utility - the virtues of being Epicurean
Part Four: Early Stoicism
11: Zeno's epistemology and Plato's Theaetetus
12: Stoic psychology and the elucidation of language
13: The Stoics on world-Conflagration and everlasting recurrence
Part Five: Cicero, and Roman Stoicism
14: Cicero's Plato and Aristotle
15: Cicero's politics in De officiis
16: Stoic philosophers on persons, property ownership and community
17: Seneca on the self: why now?
18: Epictetus on understanding and managing emotions
Bibliography
Index of subjects
Index locorum

About the Author

A. A. Long is a Professor in the Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley. He has been a visiting professor at many other European universities, including most recently appointment as Belle van Zuylen Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utrecht. His other books include Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics (which has been translated into eight languages), the two-volume source book, The Hellenistic
Philosophers (co-authored with David Sedley), Stoic Studies, and Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life (OUP).

Reviews

...stimulaating collection of essays...[Long] has helped to make Hellenistic philosophy a required subject for every student of classics and philosophy
*Sara Ahbel-Rappe, The Classical Review*