The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (Hackett Classics)

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UPC:
9780872202412
Maximum Purchase:
3 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1994-03-15
Author:
Epicurus;Lloyd P. Gerson
Language:
english,greek
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction
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

Short fragments and testimonia from known works:
* From On Nature
* From the Puzzles
* From On the Goal
* From the Symposium
* From Against Theophrastus
* Fragments of Epicurus' letters

Short fragments and testimonia from uncertain works:
* Logic and epistemology
* Physics and theology
* Ethics

Index