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The Epicurus Reader

Selected Writings and Testimonia

Epicurus

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Imprint: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 02/1994
Pages: 128
Print ISBN: 9781600000000
eBook ISBN: 9781603845847

DESCRIPTION

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

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