Post-Hellenistic Philosophy

G. R. Boys-Stones is Professor of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Toronoto. He was previously Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Durham, and founding Co-Director of the Durham Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy.

• Part I:. Ancient Wisdom: Stoic Exegesis1: The Outlook of Primitive Man: Beginnings of a Theory2: The Recovery of Primitive Wisdom in Early Stoicism3: Primitive Wisdom and Stoic Exegesis after Posidonius4: Antiquity in Graeco-Egyptian Anti-Semitism5: Antiquity in Jewish ApologeticPart II: Ancient Tradition: Post-Hellenistic Philosophy6: The Authority of Plato and Primitive Wisdom7: Divergence and Disagreement: The Platonist Alternative to Scepticism8: The Invention of Hebraeo-Christian Orthodoxy9: The 'Dependency Theme'

Post-Hellenistic Philosophy has much to offer students of ancient philosophy and intellectual history, and offers interesting and for the most part plausible ideas about the ways in which a new Platonic philosophy came into existence.