What is Ancient Philosophy? by Pierre Hadot; translated by Michael Chase, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. 352 pp. PIERRE HADOT, emeritus professor of classical history at the College de France, is highly regarded among scholars of ancient philosophy for his authoritative commentaries on Plotinus and for an outstanding study of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations (The Inner Citadel, Harvard, 1998). In broader intellectual circles, however, he is better known for a thesis, presented schematically in earlier essays, that receives magisterial treatment in What is Ancient Philosophy?
