| Physical description |
xix, 284 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and index. |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Athens. 1. Epicurus' Last Will and Testament. 2. Epicurus' [Kyria Doxa] XVII. 3. Epicurus in the Archives of Athens. 4. Individual and Community in the First Generation of the Epicurean School. 5. The Cults of Epicurus -- Ch. 2. Italy. 6. Philodemus on the Plain Speaking of the Other Philosophers. 7. De Rerum Natura: Greek Physis and Epicurean Physiologia (Lucretius 1.1-148). 8. The Sources of Lucretius' Inspiration. 9. An Anatomy of Lucretian Metaphor. 10. Lucretius' Gigantomachy -- Ch. 3. Oenoanda. 11. Sailing to Lampsacus: Diogenes of Oenoanda, New Fragment 7. 12. The Means to Epicurus' Salvation: The "Crux" at Diogenes of Oenoanda, NF 7 II 12. 13. Philippson's "Basilica" and Diogenes' Stoa (Diogenes of Oenoanda, Fr. 51). 14. An Epicurean Interpretation of Dreams. 15. A Lost Epicurean Community. |
| Summary |
Paradosis and Survival presents fifteen essays devoted to recovering the three main phases of Epicurean philosophy in antiquity: its origin in the first generation of the school in Athens; its spread to Italy in the first century B.C.; and its arrival in Lycia in the second century A.D. |
| Subject |
Epicurus.
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Epicureans (Greek philosophy)
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| ISBN |
0472108964 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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