by Herman Shapiro & Edwin M. Curley, Ed.

Preface by Herman Shapiro & Edwin M. Curley

 

I. EPICUREANISM

Introduction
Epicurus	Letter to Menoeceus
Epicurus	Leading Doctrines
Lucretius	On the Nature of Things (selections from Books I-V

 

II. STOICISM

Introduction
Seneca	On Providence
Epictetus	Discourses (About Freedom, Book IV, Ch. I)
Marcus Aurelius	The Meditations (Books IV, VI, XII)

 

III. SKEPTICISM

Introduction
Sextus Empiricus	Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Book I, Ch. 1-33)
Lucian	Hermotimus

 

IV. NEOPLATONISM

Introduction
Plotinus	The Enneads (Selections from I, III, IV, V, VI)

 Appendix

Introduction
Cicero	On the Nature of the Gods (Selections from Books I, II, III)
Cicero	The Offices (Selections from Books I, III)