The Epicurus Reader
Lloyd P. Gerson, Epicurus
Selected Writings and Testimonia
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Release Date: 15/03/1994
Selected Writings and Testimonia TABLE OF CONTENTS: Short fragments and testimonia from known works: Short fragments and testimonia from uncertain works: Index
A total philosophy of life, death, religion, ethics, and culture promising liberation from the obstacles that stand in the way of our happiness, the teachings of Epicurus claimed many thousand committed followers over the ancient Mediterranean world. This title fills the need for a reliable selection and translation of the main surviving evidence.
The ancient biography of Epicurus
The extant letters
Ancient collections of maxims
Doxographical reports
The testimony of Cicero
The testimony of Lucretius
The polemic of Plutarch
* From On Nature
* From the Puzzles
* From On the Goal
* From the Symposium
* From Against Theophrastus
* Fragments of Epicurus' letters
* Logic and epistemology
* Physics and theology
* Ethics