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General Index

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2023

Edited by
Sergio Yona  and
Gregson Davis
Sergio Yona
Affiliation:
University of Missouri, Columbia
Gregson Davis
Affiliation:
Duke University, North Carolina

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Epicurus in Rome
Philosophical Perspectives in the Ciceronian Age
 , pp. 204 - 208
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

General Index

Aeschylus, 152–153, 159
Algra, Kiempe, 170, 172, 175–176, 179, 184
Amafinius, 14
ancestors
achievements of, 15, 26–30
representations of, 141
Anderson, W. S., 5, 142–143
animals
and transmigration of souls, 164–166
resemblance of Epicureans to, 45–46
Antiochus of Ascalon, 64
Aristippus, 15–16
Aristotle, 16, 18, 67, 140
Asmis, Elizabeth, viii, 1, 5, 50, 71, 75, 79, 91, 93, 99, 114, 121, 137, 174, 180–181, 183
Atticus
Epicureanism of, 18, 36, 58–60, 98, 140
Aulus Gellius, 148, 151
Auvray-Assayas, Clara, 3
Bailey, Shackleton, 59
Bakker, Frederik, 174–176
Barnes, Jonathan, 2, 169–170, 173–174, 180, 183–184
Benferhat, Yasmina, 33, 35, 39, 57, 59, 61, 64, 67, 72–73, 75, 77–78, 97, 99–100
Beretta, Marco, 175
Boissier, Gaston, 59
Boyle, Rebecca, 168
Caesar
and ambition, 72
and death, 75–81
and familiarity with Lucretius, 73–74
as threat to the Republic, 38–39, 52
education of, 73–74
calculus, See measurement
Callimachus
as model for Catullus, 92
as model for Philodemus, 92
Carneades, 16, 26, 55, 60, 62–63
Cassandra, 160–161
Cassius, 23, 31, 33, 36, 41, 56–57, 61, 69, 71, 86, 98, 144
Castner, C. J., 35, 57, 59, 65–68, 73–74, 77, 83, 99
Catiline, 75
Cato, 55, 70–71, 76–77, 82
Catullus
and criticism of patrons, 95
and friendship compared to Lucretius, 97–100
as crazed, 101–107
as hostile to Epicureanism, 88–89
as rival of Philodemus, 90–94
pessimism of, 100–101
Chrysippus, 15–16, 82
Cicero
and anti-Epicurean rhetoric, 39–44
and conversion tactics, 60–68
and criticism of Caesar, 76–80
and criticism of Piso, 33–34, 72–73, 94
and criticism of Torquatus, 30–32, 34–35
and Greek intellectual framework, 14–22
and his sources, 22–23
and Roman achievements, 26–28
and Roman virtue, 24–26
and the Garden, 28–29
as opposed to measurement, 48–53
as translator, 24
circumlocution
as rhetorical strategy, 39–42, 44, 46, 54
coniunctum
vs. eventum, 158
convivium, 94
Crassus, 26, 37, 40–42, 64
criteria
and philosophical allegiance, 54
criticism
of Epicurus, 4–8, 14, 23, 34–36, 38–42, 49–54, 67, 69–70
Dale, F. R., 74
Delattre, Daniel, 3, 16, 18, 93, 174
Demetrius Lacon, 12, 173, 176, 183–184
Democritus, 15–16, 39, 44, 173–174, 181
desire
categories of, 114–118, 126–128
Diana, 152, 158
diatribe, 6, 78, 114, 129, 132, 136, 144–145
Dicaearchus, 45, 67
dichotomy
between Greek and Roman thought as false, 3, 18
between philosohy and politics, 32, 71
Diodorus, 16
education, See paideia
Ennius
and Greek tragedy, 154
and Pyrrhus, 148–151
as presented by Lucretius, 163–167
Epictetus, viii, 26, 61–62
Epicureanism
as a threat to the Republic, 39, 47–50
universality of, 2
Epicurus
and death, 75, 111–112
and diversity of thought, 21–23
and education, 92–94
as explained by Torquatus, 15
as object of worship, 42–44, 56
house of, 64–66
universality of, 11–14, 106
eventum
and the Trojan War, 158–159
vs. coniunctum, 163
excess
of desire for life, 115
of grief, 6, 115
Fabullus, 87–90, 93, 95–96, 104
false belief, 6–7, 113, 176
Fannius, 51
fiction
of Cicero’s literary works, 23, 34
First Triumvirate, 72
founding fathers
of the Garden, 16
fourfold remedy, See tetrapharmakos
Fowler, Don, 143
frank criticism, 6, 129, 145
friendship, 20–22
and politics, 94–98
commercialization of, 49–53
Frischer, Bernard, 140
Furley, David, 170
Gale, Monica, viii, 5, 55, 128, 158
Garani, Myrto, 2
Garden, 2, 4, 7, 19–20, 28, 31, 55, 61, 63–64, 66–67, 72, 75, 78, 85, 140, 142, 144
Gilbert, Nathan, viii, 4, 55, 72, 84
Giuffrida, Pasquale, 89
gods
as vengeful, 7
not concerned with human affairs, 1, 63
Görler, Woldemar, 64
Griffin, Miriam, 2, 59, 84
Hardie, Philip, 43
Hariman, Robert, 38
Harrison, Stephen, 153
Heraclitus, 11, 17, 91, 173
Herculaneum, 19
Holmes, Brooke, 3
Horace, 5, 46, 82, 105–106, 132, 142–143
inconstantia
of Cicero according to Atticus, 69–70
innovation, 19–20, 26, 35
Iphigenia, 151–160
Jeffrey Fish, 3, 84
Kenney, 102, 131–134, 136, 141, 147, 164
kitsch
and death, 135–138
defined, 129–131
Konstan, David, 1–2, 56, 100–101
Krebs, Christopher, 74
Kulka, Thomas, 135–136
Kundera, Milan, 130, 135, 137
L. Papirius Paetus, 61
L. Saufeius, 58, 66
Laelius, 40–41, 45–46, 51
language, 65
and Lucretius, 154–161
as rhetorical device, 48
as sentimental, 134–139
complications of, 177
in Lucretius, 145–146
in Roman discourse, 24–26
Lehoux, Daryn, 3
leisure, 23, 74, 96, 123
Lloyd, Geoffrey, 184
Lucretius
and Catullus, 102–107
and Memmius, 64–65, 96–98
critical of excessive grief, 111–112, 133–137
graphic clarity of, 131–132
ludi, 148, 151, 155, 161, 165–166
Marcellus, 78, 80
Marcus Aurelius, viii, 144
marginalization
of Epicureans, 44
McConnell, 58, 61, 67, 84, 97
measurement
as threat to the Republic, 49
of pleasure and pain, 33–34, 47
Memmius, 64–65
and Catullus, 94–100
and Lucretius, 145
Menander, 12
Merlan, Philip, 138
Metrodorus of Lampsacus, viii, 13, 16, 34, 39, 127, 140
Mitsis, Phillip, 2, 20, 24, 112
Morrison, A. D., 3
mortality
of the soul, 32, 44–45, 131, 145
mos maiorum, 3, 30, 36, 39, 88
Muses, 90, 105
Nagel, Thomas, 112, 127
nature
abundance of, 116–119
and the sameness of things, 119–123
personified, 78, 111–115
otium, See leisure
P. Sextilius Rufus, 25–26, 96, 132
paideia, 37, 42
Patro, 60, 64–66
patronage, 42, 91, 94–95, 97
Perlwitz, Olaf, 57, 59, 71
Phaedrus, 17, 55, 61, 65, 70
Philodemus, viii, 1, 5–6, 13–14, 18, 20, 28, 32, 34, 39, 42, 56–57, 66, 71–72, 84–85, 87–95, 97, 99–100, 102–104, 106–107, 114–115, 118, 126–127, 137–138, 144–145
Piso
and Epicureanism, 32–35
and Philodemus, 90–92
as recipient of political advice, 98–100
attack against, 66, 87–89
attack on, 94–95
platitude, See kitsch
Plato, viii, 16, 62
pleasure
and friendship, 97
and politics, 33–35
and security, 27–29
as basis for friendship, 19–22
categories of, 115–116
poetry
and Ennius, 147–148
and Philodemus, 91–94, 105
polemics, 12, 16, 20, 22, 28, 31
politics
and philosophy, 31–34, 68, 73
Pompeii, 156
Pompey, 26, 95, 98, 161
portrayal
of Epicurus in art, 56, 140, 142
Posidonius, 82, 185
Powell, Jonathan, 24, 29, 40–42, 49
putrefaction, 6, 131–132, 137, 145
Pyrrhus, 148–150, 166
Q. Fadius Gallus, 25–26
Q. Tullius Cicero, 25, 55, 60, 62–63, 68, 74
Reinhardt, Tobias, 24, 134–135
religio, See superstition
rhetoric, 27–32, 36, 41–48, 54
Romeo, Constantina, 172, 185
Rudolph, Kelli, 174, 181
Sallust, 75, 77
Sanders, Kirk, 3, 112, 126, 137
satisfaction
of pleasure, 125
with life, 79, 111, 113
Scaevola, 42, 51, 64
Sedley, David, x, 21, 24–25, 31, 57, 99, 149, 170, 175, 179
Seneca, viii, 11, 21, 30, 33, 82, 126, 144
sense perception, 170–171, 175–185
Sharrock, Alison, 3
Shearin, W. H., 3, 58
Sider, David, 56, 66, 87–88, 90–93, 102, 105, 131, 138–139
Socrates, 16, 87, 140
sources, 1, 3–5, 21–23, 31, 37, 71, 78–79, 81–82, 117–119, 143, 169, 176, 181
Stoics, 16, 30, 42, 48, 82
Suetonius, 73, 79–80
sun
and Epicurean sources, 169–173
and heat, 8, 158, 169–172, 177–179, 182, 184
as didactic challenge, 182–183
as Epicurean shibboleth, 183–185
in Lucretius, 177–180
size of, 168–169
superstition, 13, 149, 152, 154, 175
Taormina, Daniela, 176
Taylor, Barnaby, 147, 152–153, 158, 181
tetrapharmakos, 138, 144
Thomas, Carla, 88, 127, 135
Torquatus
ancestors of, 27–30
and friendship, 50
and virtue, 24–26
as critical thinker, 20–22
inconsistency of, 30–32, 34–35
Venus, 91, 97, 106–107, 111, 128, 148
Verde, Francesco, 125, 176
virtue, 24
and pleasure, 48–51
as means for pleasure, 33
in service to the state, 37
voluptas, See pleasure
Warren, James, 5, 39, 46, 75, 80, 111–112, 126–127, 172
Williams, Bernard, ix, 73, 122, 126–127
Woolf, Raphael, 12, 36, 72, 80–81
worship
of Epicurus, 43
Xanthippe, 87, 105
Xantho, 87, 138–139
Xenophon, 17
Zeno (of Citium), 16–17, 66, 142
Zeno (of Sidon), 66, 144

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  • General Index
  • Edited by Sergio Yona, University of Missouri, Columbia, Gregson Davis, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book: Epicurus in Rome
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