A pag. ix: "This volume and its companions together contain most of the papers I have published on ancient philosophy over the last forty odd years. Short reviews of books have, almost all, been excluded; so have articles for encyclopaedias and the like; and also one or two items which repeat or anticipate what I have written elsewhere. The pieces are organized thematically rather than chronologically [...] The essays which were originally published in French (and in one case in Italian) are here done into English".

Bibliografia: pagine 561-580.

Ancient philosophers. -- The history of philosophy. -- Philosophy within quotation marks? -- Anglophone attitudes. -- Brentano's Aristotle. -- Heidegger in the cave. -- 'There was an old person from Tyre'. -- The Presocratics in context. -- Argument in ancient philosophy. -- Philosophy and dialectic. -- Aristotle and the methods of ethics. -- Metacommentary. -- An introduction to Aspasius. -- Parmenides and the Eleatic One. -- Reason and necessity in Leucippus. -- Plato's cyclical argument. -- Death and the philosopher. -- Aristotelian arithmetic. -- The principle of plenitude. -- 'Aristotle's opinion concerning destiny and what is up to us'. -- 'Belief is up to us'. -- The same again : the Stoics and eternal recurrence. -- Bits and pieces. -- Partial wholes. -- 'Drei Sonnen sah ich ...' : Syrianus and astronomy. -- Immaterial causes.