[New Entry by Voula Tsouna on March 31, 2026.]
The Cyrenaics are one of the so-called Socratic schools, namely schools which, according to the doxographical tradition, were founded by prominent figures of the Socratic circle, were active during the Hellenistic period each under the leadership of a succession of scholarchs, and advanced different or even diametrically opposed interpretations of Socrates' philosophical ideas and interests. Unlike the Cynics, however, whose connection to their alleged founder, Antisthenes the Socratic, is tenuous and whose succession is an...