Contents
Preface to the Second Edition 1x
Preface to the First Edition x
Introduction xv
Abbreviations xx
I. Epicureanism 3
The Ancient Biography of Epicurus 3
The Extant Letters 5
Ancient Collections of Maxims 32
Doxographical Reports 40
The Testimony of Cicero 45
The Testimony of Lucretius 63
The Polemic of Plutarch 65
Short Fragments and Testimonia from Known Works 72
Short Fragments and Testimonia from Uncertain Works 81
Logic and Epistemology 81
Physics and Theology 85
Ethics 95II. Stoicism 103
Lives of the Stoics 103
On Philosophy 110
Logic and Theory of Knowledge 111
Physics 132
On Fate 179
Ethics 190III. Scepticism
Academic Scepticism: Arcesilaus and Carneades
Pyrrhonian Scepticism
Pyrrho
Timon
Aenesidemus
Later Pyrrhonism: Sextus Empiricus
General Principles
The Modes
Logic
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