Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Autodidact and student: on the relationship of authority and autonomy in Epicurus and the Epicurean tradition
- 3 Epicurus' theological innatism
- 4 Epicurus on the gods
- 5 Not all politicians are Sisyphus: what Roman Epicureans were taught about politics
- 6 Epicurean virtues, Epicurean friendship: Cicero vs the Herculaneum papyri
- 7 Cicero's use and abuse of Epicurean theology
- 8 The necessity of anger in Philodemus' On Anger
- 9 Philodemus, Seneca and Plutarch on anger
- 10 Philodemus and the fear of premature death
- Bibliography
- General index
- Index of passages
List of Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Autodidact and student: on the relationship of authority and autonomy in Epicurus and the Epicurean tradition
- 3 Epicurus' theological innatism
- 4 Epicurus on the gods
- 5 Not all politicians are Sisyphus: what Roman Epicureans were taught about politics
- 6 Epicurean virtues, Epicurean friendship: Cicero vs the Herculaneum papyri
- 7 Cicero's use and abuse of Epicurean theology
- 8 The necessity of anger in Philodemus' On Anger
- 9 Philodemus, Seneca and Plutarch on anger
- 10 Philodemus and the fear of premature death
- Bibliography
- General index
- Index of passages
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- Epicurus and the Epicurean Tradition , pp. x - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011