This collection makes available in English, twelve papers by the distinguished French scholar, Professor Jacques Brunschwig. They deal with problems arising in the texts and doctrines of the three philosophical schools of the Hellenistic period - Epicureanism, Stoicism and Scepticism.

Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I. Epicureanism: 1. Epicurus' argument on the immutability of the all; 2. Epicurus and the problem of private language; Part II. Stoicism: 3. Remarks on the Stoic theory of the proper noun; 4. Remarks on the classification of simple propositions in Hellenistic logics; 5. The conjunctive model; 6. The Stoic theory of the supreme genus and Platonic ontology; 7. On a Stoic way of not being; 8. Did Diogenes of Babylon invent the ontological argument?; Part III. Scepticism: 9. Once again on Eusebius on Aristocles on Timon on Pyrrho; 10. The title of Timon's Indalmoi: from Odysseus to Pyrrho; 11. Sextus Empiricus on the kriterion: the Sceptic as conceptual legatee; 12. The hoson epi toi logoi formula in Sextus Empiricus; Bibliography; Index of subjects; Index of names; Index of passages cited.