Books in the Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers series

"The Introduction to Philosophy" written by Porphyry at the end of the second century AD gave highly influential treatments of a number of perennial philosophical questions. Presenting an English translation, this book aims to analyse and assess the philosophical theses and arguments which the "Introduction" puts forward.

The "Introduction" to philosophy written by Porphyry at the end of the second century AD is the most successful work. Porphyry's aim was modest, but he gave highly influential treatments of a number of perennial philosophical questions. This title presents an English translation, preceded by an introduction and followed by a commentary.

This volume contains a translation into clear modern English of an unjustly neglected work by Sextus Empiricus, together with introduction and extensive commentary. Sextus is our main source for the doctrines and arguments of ancient Scepticism; in Against the Ethicists he sets out a distinctive Sceptic position in ethics.

David Blank presents a new translation into clear modern English of a key treatise by one of the greatest of ancient philosophers, together with the first ever commentary on this work. Sextus Empiricus' Against the Grammarians is a polemical attack on ancient Greek ideas about grammar, and provides one of the best examples of sustained Sceptical reasoning.

John Dillon presents an English translation of Alcinous' Handbook of Platonism, accompanied by an introduction and a philosophical commentary which explain the ideas in the work and show their intellectual and historical context. The Handbook purports to be an introduction to the doctrines of Plato, but in fact gives us an excellent survey of Platonist thought in the second century AD.

New translations of significant political writings of Seneca, the most important Stoic philosopher.

Robert Dobbin presents a new translation into clear modern English of the first book of Epictetus' Discourses, accompanied by the first ever commentary on the work in English. The Discourses, composed around AD 100, are a key source for ancient Stoicism, one of the most influential schools of thought in Western philosophy.

One of the most widely read of all classical texts during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, this volume represents the distillation of Galenus' views on the nature, genesis, proper classification and treatment of disease.

Christopher Gill provides a new translation and commentary on the first half of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, and a full introduction to this unique and remarkable work: a reflective diary or notebook by a Roman emperor, whose content is based on Stoic philosophy but presented in a highly distinctive way.