Table of Contents

Part I:. Ancient Wisdom: Stoic Exegesis 1: The Outlook of Primitive Man: Beginnings of a Theory 2: The Recovery of Primitive Wisdom in Early Stoicism 3: Primitive Wisdom and Stoic Exegesis after Posidonius 4: Antiquity in Graeco-Egyptian Anti-Semitism 5: Antiquity in Jewish Apologetic Part II: Ancient Tradition: Post-Hellenistic Philosophy 6: The Authority of Plato and Primitive Wisdom 7: Divergence and Disagreement: The Platonist Alternative to Scepticism 8: The Invention of Hebraeo-Christian Orthodoxy 9: The 'Dependency Theme'

About the Author

G. R. Boys-Stones is Professor of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Toronoto. He was previously Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Durham, and founding Co-Director of the Durham Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy.

Reviews

Post-Hellenistic Philosophy has much to offer students of ancient philosophy and intellectual history, and offers interesting and for the most part plausible ideas about the ways in which a new Platonic philosophy came into existence.
*Ancient Philosophy*

[A] relatively short but important book.
*The Philosophical Review*

Boys-Stones paints a far more exciting picture of the period than anyone else in this highly interesting and at times controversial book.
*Hermathena*