The essays were published in various magazines, 1974-1994
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Methods of sophistry -- Epicurus on the truth of sense impressions -- Sceptical strategies -- The Ten Tropes of Aenesidemus -- On the difference between the Pyrrhonists and the Academics -- The problem of the criterion -- Greek ethics and moral theory -- Ataraxia : Happiness as tranquillity -- Epicurean hedonism -- Origins of the concept of natural law -- Following nature : A study in Stoic ethics -- The role of oikeiōsis in Stoic ethics -- Antipater, or the art of living -- Plato's Socrates and the Stoics