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The EpicureanFriends Files section is where our Level 3 and above participants store longer documents created offsite which are of special interest to the study of Epicurus. You can use the "Categories" box on the right to find specific sections of the library.

  1. Where was the Garden of Epicurus? The Evidence from the Ancient Sources and Archaeology

    • Don
    • April 19, 2023 at 11:10 PM
    While we will probably never know the exact location of Epicurus’s Garden in ancient Athens, we can take a number of educated guesses.
    • Like 1
    • 752 Downloads

  2. Epicurus: The Summum Bonum Fallacy

    • Cassius
    • February 13, 2022 at 4:00 PM
    The aim of this article is to show how the lack of a definite article in Latin obliterated the doctrine of Epicurus that life itself and not pleasure is the greatest good.
    • 595 Downloads

  3. Nikolsky - Epicurus On Pleasure

    • Cassius
    • January 13, 2018 at 6:54 PM
    One of the most important articles on this site: Boris Nikolsky Details The Questionable Heritage of the "Kinetic / Katestematic" Distinction.
    • 485 Downloads

  4. The Pleasure of Knowledge. Reassessing Nussbaum's Interpretation of Epicurean Therapy - Elena Nicoli

    • jbaker
    • April 11, 2018 at 8:30 PM
    A Contested Influence. Hellenistic Philosophy and Modern Thought from Nietzsche to Nussbaum
    • 403 Downloads

  5. Sedley: "Epicurus' Refutation of Determinism"

    • Cassius
    • June 3, 2020 at 8:40 AM
    1983 Paper which is the one of the best treatments of Epicurus' view of the Free Will / Agency / Determinism issue available.
    • 388 Downloads

  6. Gosling & Taylor - On Katastematic and Kinetic Pleasure

    • Cassius
    • February 3, 2018 at 1:28 PM
    Gosling & Taylor on Katastematic and Kinetic Pleasure
    • 376 Downloads

  7. Mathew Wenham - On Cicero's Interpretation of Katastematic Pleasure In Epicurus

    • Cassius
    • June 30, 2022 at 8:34 AM
    The standard interpretation of the concept of katastematic pleasure in Epicurus .... leads to fundamental contradictions in his theory. I claim that it is not Epicurus, but the standard interpretation that generates these errors...
    • 363 Downloads

  8. How Became Known To Us The Portrait of The Athenian Philosopher Epicurus - Takis Pangiotopoulos -

    • Cassius
    • May 26, 2021 at 8:29 AM
    Takis' summary of the history of the identification of Epicurus through artwork
    • 350 Downloads

  9. GRZELAK: The Presence of Ethical Teaching in De Rerum Natura of Lucretius

    • Cassius
    • February 7, 2020 at 7:05 AM
    Highlighting the Ethical Aspects of Lucretius' poem
    • 320 Downloads

  10. Philodemus - A Study Of His Ethical Works

    • Cassius
    • March 20, 2019 at 10:26 PM
    Philodemus
    • 319 Downloads

  11. Morel - "Method and Evidence: On Epicurean Preconception"

    • Cassius
    • June 25, 2021 at 3:52 PM
    Article on Epicurean preconceptions
    • 311 Downloads

  12. "Epicurus' Last Will and Testament" - by Diskin Clay

    • Cassius
    • January 23, 2021 at 3:15 PM
    Article by Diskin Clay
    • 310 Downloads

  13. Epicurean Preconceptions - Tsouna

    • Cassius
    • April 13, 2019 at 11:14 PM
    Epicurean Preconceptions
    • 306 Downloads

  14. Packer (Mary Porter) - "Cicero's Presentation of Epicurean Ethics"

    • Cassius
    • May 2, 2019 at 2:14 PM
    Packer (Mary Porter) - "Cicero's Presentation of Epicurean Ethics"
    • 304 Downloads

  15. DeWitt on Isonomy

    • Cassius
    • January 22, 2018 at 1:51 PM
    DeWitt on Isonomy, one of the Epicurean arguments for divinity
    • 300 Downloads

  16. Lion of Epicurus - Lucian And His Epicurean Passages

    • Cassius
    • March 2, 2022 at 6:10 AM
    Epub Collection of Works By Lucian Concerning Epicurus
    • Like 1
    • 295 Downloads

  17. Epicurus’s Birthday: The 7th, 10th, or 20th of Gamelion - Mystery Solved

    • Don
    • December 26, 2022 at 12:07 AM
    This paper outlines the reasons to accept that Epicurus was born on the 20th day of the month of Gamelion.
    • Love 2
    • 294 Downloads

  18. Chilton - Did Epicurus Approve of Marriage

    • Cassius
    • January 28, 2020 at 8:09 AM
    Chilton - Did Epicurus Approve of Marriage
    • 282 Downloads

  19. Frances Wright's "Course of Popular Lectures" - Volume 2 - 1836

    • Cassius
    • September 24, 2020 at 6:53 AM
    Frances Wright's "Course of Popular Lectures" - Volume 2 - 1836
    • 278 Downloads

  20. Frances Wright's "Course of Popular Lectures" - Volume 1 1829

    • Cassius
    • September 24, 2020 at 6:48 AM
    Frances Wright's "Course of Popular Lectures" 1829
    • 271 Downloads

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