Cyrenaic School

The Cyrenaic school of classical Greek thought (aka Cyrenaicism) was founded by Aristippus of Cyrene and flourished during the fourth century BC. Its principal teaching was hedonism. No Cyrenaic writings survive.

Cyrenaic School of Philosophy - So called from the city of Cyrene, in which it was founded, flourished from about 400 to about 300 B.C., and had for its most distinctive tenet Hedonism, or the doctrine that pleasure is the chief good.
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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Cyrenaics - Detailed survey of this school of thought, by Tim O'Keefe.
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Hellenicdata: Cyrenaic - A concise article drawn from the online Britannica.
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Voula Tsouna, The Epistemology of the Cyrenaic School - A review by Robert Todd of this scholarly work. Published in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review in 1999.
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Columbia Encyclopedia: Cyrenaics - Concise paragraph from the 2001 edition.
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