| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 267 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Jeffrey Fish and Kirk R. Sanders -- Autodidact and student: on the relationship of authority and autonomy in Epicurus and the Epicurean tradition / Michael Erler -- Epicurus' theological innatism / David Sedley -- Epicurus on the gods / David Konstan -- Not all politicians are Sisyphus: what Roman Epicureans were taught about politics / Jeffrey Fish -- Epicurean virtues, Epicurean friendship: Cicero vs the Herculaneum papyri / David Armstrong -- Cicero's use and abuse of Epicurean theology / Holger Essler -- The necessity of anger in Philodemus' On anger / Elizabeth Asmis -- Philodemus, Seneca and Plutarch on anger / Voula Tsouna -- Philodemus and the fear of premature death / Kirk R. Sanders |
| Summary |
Demonstrates the vitality and development of Epicureanism after Epicurus, and especially the dynamic interplay between tradition and innovation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Epicurus.
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Epicurus |
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Epikur. |
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Epicureans (Greek philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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Epicureans (Greek philosophy)
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Epikureismus
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Epicurisme.
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Epikureer.
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Philosophie.
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Griechenland (Altertum)
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| Genre/Form |
Congressen (vorm)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fish, Jeffrey.
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Sanders, Kirk R., 1966-
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| ISBN |
9781139041102 |
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113904110X |
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9781139045285 |
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1139045288 |
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