Epicureanism 1317492560, 9781317492566

Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism 9780197522004

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Epicureanism 9781844651696, 9781844651702, 184465169X, 9781315711645, 1315711648

This introduction to Epicureanism offers students and general readers a clear exposition of the central tenets of Epicur

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Diogenes of Oinoanda: Epicureanism and Philosophical Debates 9789462701014

The texts of Diogenes of Oinoanda (2nd century AD) who invited his readers to an Epicurean life is the largest ancient i

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Enlightened Pleasures: Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicureanism 9780300162851

Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue—a gift to be shared with

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The Sculpted Word: Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment in Ancient Greece 9780520312135, 0520312139

This study of the recruitment techniques used by the philosophical schools of Hellenistic Greece. Bernard Frischer focus

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Epicurus and the Singularity of Death: Defending Radical Epicureanism 9781350134041, 9781350134072, 9781350134058

In his Letter to Menoeceus, the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus states that ‘death is nothing to us’. Few philosopher

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The Sculpted Word: Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment in Ancient Greece 9780520312135, 0520312139

This study of the recruitment techniques used by the philosophical schools of Hellenistic Greece. Bernard Frischer focus

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Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity [1 ed.] 0199238812, 9780199238811

This landmark study examines the role played by the rediscovery of the writings of the ancient atomists, Epicurus and Lu

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Epicureanism and the Gospel of John: A Study of Their Compatibility 3161595459, 9783161595455

The Gospel of John and Epicureanism share vocabulary and reject the conventions of Graeco-Roman theology. Would it then

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Epicureanism and Scientific Debates. Antiquity and Late Reception: Language, Medicine, Meteorology 9789462703735, 9789461665164, 9462703736

Epicureanism is not only a defence of pleasure: it is also a philosophy of science and knowledge. This edited collection

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