Subtitle
Author
Peter Adamson
Full Title
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds
Genre
History
Page Count
455
Pages Read
65
Progress
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Reading Status
Paused
Rating
Read Dates
Feb 16, 2026
ISBN_10
0198728026
ISBN_13
9780198728023
Notes, Highlights & Quotes
“These four schools — the Cynics, the Stoics, the Skeptics, and the Epicureans — are the main philosophical traditions of what we call the Hellenistic period. This is often defined as the time beginning with the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC, and ending wherever the historian you’re talking to decides it should end, one popular choice being the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC.”“The schools built allegiance over generations in part by devoting themselves to the authority of their founders. In the case of the Stoics this meant giving an authoritative position to Zeno of Citium. For the Skeptics, the founding father was Pyrrho; Sextus Empiricus calls himself not a “Skeptic” but a “Pyrrhonist.” The Cynics looked back to Diogenes of Sinope, while in the case of the Epicureans it was, of course, Epicurus.”