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The Epicurus Reader

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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

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780872202412
Publication date: 15th March 1994
Author: Epicurus, Lloyd P Gerson
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company an imprint of Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 128 pages
Series: Hackett Classics
Genres: Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy