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

✍ Scribed by Epicurus, Lloyd P. Gerson

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 129
• Edition: New Ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Suggestions for further reading
Abbreviations
The Epicurus Reader
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
Short fragments and testimonia from uncertain works
Index