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Hellenistic philosophy is a category for books on the schools and thinkers that flourished from the aftermath of Alexander the Great (323 BCE) into the early Roman Empire, with a strong focus on practical ethics and the art of living. It covers Stoicism, Epicureanism, Skepticism (Academic and Pyrrhonian), later Platonist and Aristotelian traditions, and related currents such as Cynicism. The category includes primary texts (letters, discourses, didactic poems, handbooks, and ancient doxographies), Roman-era expositions, and modern translations, commentaries, and scholarship. Common themes are happiness (eudaimonia), virtue and emotion, friendship, freedom and fate, logic and knowledge, atomist physics and cosmology, and philosophical “therapy.” Representative authors include Epicurus and Lucretius; Zeno, Chrysippus, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius; Sextus Empiricus; Cicero and Diogenes Laertius; and Plutarch.

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