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Thr Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia » (1st Edition)

Authors: Epicurus, Lloyd P. Gerson, Brad (Translator) Inwood, Lloyd P. (Translator) Gerson, Brad Inwood
ISBN-13: 9780872202412, ISBN-10: 0872202410
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Date Published: March 1994
Edition: 1st Edition

	Introduction
	The ancient biography of Epicurus	3
	The extant letters	5
	Ancient collections of maxims	32
	Doxographical reports	41
	The testimony of Cicero	47
	The testimony of Lucretius	65
	The polemic of Plutarch	68
	Short fragments and testimonia from known works	75
	From On Nature	75
	From the Puzzles	77
	From On the Goal	78
	From the Symposium	78
	From Against Theophrastus	78
	Fragments of Epicurus' letters	78
	Short fragments and testimonia from uncertain works	84
	Logic and epistemology	84
	Physics and theology	88
	Ethics	98
	Index	105