Julia Annas gives a succinct account of ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, emphasizing its freshness and variety of themes, and its approach of lively discussion and argument.

Julia Annas is Regents Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona. She is an Honorary Fellow of St. Hugh's College, Oxford, a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was President of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association 2004-5. She was the founding editor of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. She has published 16 books (8 edited or translations) and many articles, mainly on ethics in the ancient Greco-Roman world, and contemporary ethics, especially virtue ethics.

• 1: How to live a happy life


• 2: Humans and beasts: understanding ourselves


• 3: Reason, knowledge and scepticism


• 4: Logic and reality


• 5: When did it begin? (and what is it anyway?)