The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (HPC Classics) - Hardcover

Epicurus; Gerson, Lloyd P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0872202429 ISBN 13: 9780872202429

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc, 1994

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

About this title

About the Author

Brad Inwood is Professor of Philosophy and Classics, University of Toronto. Lloyd P. Gerson is Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0872202429
• ISBN 13: 9780872202429
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128