In this volume scholars from all three disciplines investigate the interaction of philosophy and Roman political and cultural life in the late Republic and early Empire, with particular emphasis on the first century BC which can be seen as the formative period.

M. Griffin: Philosophy, politics, and politicians at Rome; I. G. Kidd: Posidonius as Philosopher-Historian; J. Barnes: Antiochus of Ascalon; D. Sedley: Philosophical allegiance in the Greco-Roman world; D. P. Fowler: Lucretius and politics; J. Annas: Cicero on stoic moral philosophy and private property; P. A. Brunt: Philosophy and religion in the late republic; C. Pelling: Plutarch: Roman heroes and Greek culture; E. Rawson: Roman rulers and the philosophic adviser