Home›Sources›Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, ScepticsSourcesHellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, ScepticsCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/hellenistic-philosophy-stoics-epicureans-sceptics.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/hellenistic-philosophy-stoics-epicureans-scepticsCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-hellenistic-philosophy-stoics-epicureans, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/hellenistic-philosophy-stoics-epicureans-sceptics}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXA. A. Long is a scholar of ancient philosophy, and this book, published by University of California Press, is a standard academic survey of the Stoic, Epicurean and Sceptic schools of Hellenistic philosophy, working from the surviving primary texts and fragments of each school's founders and later representatives. Its strength is clear, rigorous exposition of three philosophical traditions that survive mostly in fragmentary form, reconstructing each school's actual arguments from scattered ancient testimony rather than presenting a simplified popular summary. Its limit is that, because so much primary Hellenistic philosophical writing is lost and survives only through later quotation and paraphrase, any reconstruction of a school's full system necessarily involves some interpretive inference, a limit inherent to the surviving evidence rather than to Long's method.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (208 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsCitationAuthorWell-attestedA. A. LongPublisherWell-attestedUniversity of California PressPublication YearWell-attested1986URLWell-attestedhttps://archive.org/details/hellenisticphilo0000long_2ediSource TypeWell-attestedacademic monographAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1A. A. Long's standard scholarly survey of the Hellenistic philosophical schools: Stoicism, Epicureanism and Scepticism.NotesWell-attestedStandard survey of the Hellenistic philosophical schools: Stoicism, Epicureanism and Scepticism.Claims Backed By This Source (208 claims)This source backs 208 claims across the atlas. As facts: 134 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 34 holds, 4 connected, 8 held Differently. Plus 26 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicVirtues, 67 claims: 40 well-attested, 11 holds, 4 connected, 4 held Differently, 8 general references.Vices, 44 claims: 28 well-attested, 8 holds, 4 held Differently, 4 general references.Articles, 40 claims: 30 well-attested, 4 holds, 6 general references.Doctrines, 25 claims: 17 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 4 holds, 3 general references.Philosophical Schools, 16 claims: 8 well-attested, 5 holds, 3 general references.Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.Ages, 6 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 2 holds, 1 general references.Historical Figures, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Well-attested134AgesStoic Cosmic CycleArticlesA Garden Open to EveryoneA Private Notebook Never Meant to Be ReadA Skepticism Meant to Be Lived, Not ArguedAn Advisor's Philosophy, Written for Busy RomansAn Emperor at WarAndreia, the Second Stoic Cardinal VirtueAssent, Indifferents, and a Library That Did Not SurviveConflagration and RebirthDikaiosyne, the Third Stoic Cardinal VirtueEternal Recurrence and Its Ancient CriticsHellenistic Schools and the Question of How to LiveOne System in Three PartsPhronesis, the First Stoic Cardinal VirtueSlave to Teacher, and the Discourses He Never WroteSophrosyne, the Fourth Stoic Cardinal VirtueThe Death Nero OrderedThe Fire That Remakes the WorldWhat Is and Is Not Up to UsDoctrinesEkpyrosisEternal returnStoicismHistorical FiguresZeno of CitiumPhilosophical SchoolsStoicismSourcesHellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, ScepticsVicesEpithymia (Desire)Hedone (Pleasure)Lupe (Distress)Phobos (Fear)VirtuesAndreia (Courage)Dikaiosyne (Justice)FortitudeJusticePhronesis (Practical Wisdom)PrudenceSophrosyne (Temperance)TemperanceScholarly debate2AgesStoic Cosmic CycleDoctrinesEkpyrosisHolds34AgesStoic Cosmic CycleArticlesAndreia, the Second Stoic Cardinal VirtueDikaiosyne, the Third Stoic Cardinal VirtuePhronesis, the First Stoic Cardinal VirtueSophrosyne, the Fourth Stoic Cardinal VirtueDoctrinesEkpyrosisStoicismPhilosophical SchoolsEpicureanismPyrrhonismStoicismVicesEpithymia (Desire)Hedone (Pleasure)Lupe (Distress)Phobos (Fear)VirtuesAndreia (Courage)Dikaiosyne (Justice)FortitudeJusticePhronesis (Practical Wisdom)PrudenceSophrosyne (Temperance)TemperanceConnected4VirtuesAndreia (Courage)Dikaiosyne (Justice)Phronesis (Practical Wisdom)Sophrosyne (Temperance)Held Differently8VicesEpithymia (Desire)Hedone (Pleasure)Lupe (Distress)Phobos (Fear)VirtuesFortitudeJusticePrudenceTemperanceGeneral References26AgesStoic Cosmic CycleArticlesAndreia, the Second Stoic Cardinal VirtueDikaiosyne, the Third Stoic Cardinal VirtueHellenistic Schools and the Question of How to LivePhronesis, the First Stoic Cardinal VirtueSophrosyne, the Fourth Stoic Cardinal VirtueThe Fire That Remakes the WorldDoctrinesEkpyrosisEternal returnStoicismHistorical FiguresZeno of CitiumPhilosophical SchoolsEpicureanismPyrrhonismStoicismVicesEpithymia (Desire)Hedone (Pleasure)Lupe (Distress)Phobos (Fear)VirtuesAndreia (Courage)Dikaiosyne (Justice)FortitudeJusticePhronesis (Practical Wisdom)PrudenceSophrosyne (Temperance)TemperanceComments (0)No comments yet. 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