The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism »

James Warren is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Previous books include Facing Death: Epicurus and his Critics (2004) and Epicurus and Democritean Ethics: an Archaeology of Ataraxia (2002).

An introduction to the history of the ancient philosophical school and an account of the areas of its philosophical interest.

Introduction James Warren;
1. The Athenian garden Diskin Clay;
2. Epicureanism in the Roman Republic David Sedley;
3. Epicureanism in the Roman Empire Michael Erler;
4. Epicurean atomism Pierre-Marie Morel;
5. Epicurean empiricism Elizabeth Asmis;
6. Cosmology and meteorology Liba Taub;
7. Psychology Christopher Gill;
8. Action and responsibility Tim O'Keefe;
9. Pleasure and desire Raphael Woolf;
10. Politics and society Eric Brown;
11. Philosophy of language Catherine Atherton;
12. Poetry and rhetoric David Blank;
13. Removing fear: the gods and death James Warren;
14. Epicurean therapy: pedagogy and improvement Voula Tsouna;
15. Epicureanism in the early modern period Catherine Wilson; Bibliography; General index; Index of passages from ancient text.