This word is the third and last part of a research on “The desire in Ancient Greece”. In the first part we gathered the manifestation of the desire in the epic, lyric and tragic poems, as well as in the seven wises’ maxims and in the Archaic Greece presocratic philosophers’ doctrine. In the second one, we presented the core of the theoretical sistematizations that, in the Classic Greece, Socrate, Plato and Aristotle provided to those first manifestations of the desire. In the last part, after reminding the origin and characteristics of the Helenistic culture, we shall see what the epicureans and the stoics said, in the context of their respective philosophies, about the desire at the Epicure’s Garden and at the Zeno and Chrisipo’s Ancient Portico.
Helenistic culture; art of living; pleasure; virtue; happiness