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A ncient greek philosophy, logic, ethics, philosophy of science Hellenistic is a chronological term for the period dating from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 bc to the end of the Roman Republic in 31 bc. Hellenistic philosophy was the development of post Aristotelian philosophy in a period that ended with the revival of interest in Plato and Aristotle in the first century bc, roughly corresponding to the political period. Its main philosophical trends were Stoicism, founded by Zeno of Citium , Epicureanism , founded by Epicurus , and Skepticism , founded by Pyrrho . Philosophy in this period narrowed its scope to logic, ethics, and philosophy of nature, and Hellenistic philosophy contributed significantly in each of these areas. Traditionally, Hellenistic philosophy has been thought to concentrate on ethics and to lack originality, but much recent scholarship has given a more positive account of its wide-ranging philosophical achievements. “These [Stoicism, Scepticism and Epicureanism] are the movements of thought which define the main line of philosophy in the Hellenistic world, and ‘Hellenistic philosophy’ is the expression I use … to refer to them collectively.” A. A. Long, Hellenistic Philosophy ... log in or subscribe to read full text