Focusing on the history of ancient philosophy between the 3rd and 1st centuries BC, this study is based on the primary Greek and Latin writings of the philosophers involved, and the fragments, paraphrases and testimonies from their lost works.

Greek Philosophers of the Hellenistic Age examines an important but frequently neglected group of philosophers writing after Aristotle between the third and first centuries B.C. The work of a distinguished intellectual historian, this book is based on an erudite reading of a vast number of primary sources: the Greek and Latin writings of the philosophers, and the fragments, paraphrases, and testimonies from their lost works.