Hellenistic Philosophy

'A scholarly but readable account of Epicureanism, Scepticism and Stoicism . . . Beautifully lucid.' Greece and Rome

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Hellenistic Philosophy is a thorough introduction to the three schools of philosophy which dominated the Hellenistic era: Stoicism, Epicureanism and Scepticism. It traces the main developments in Greek Philosophy during the period which runs from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to the end of the Roman Republic 31 B.C.