Files by Cassius

File List

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. Bernier - Gassendi's Three Discourses on Happiness, Virtue, and Liberty

    • Cassius
    • November 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
    New This book is focused on Epicurean philosophy and explaining it in context with other philosophers.
    • Like 1
    • 10 Downloads

  2. Plutarch's Essays On EpicureanIsm

    • Cassius
    • July 31, 2025 at 7:10 AM
    Plutarch's Essays On EpicureanIsm
    • 10 Downloads

  3. Epicurea - Bryan's Edition of Epicurean Fragments Based On Usener

    • Cassius
    • April 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
    Bryan's Edition of Epicurean Fragments Based On Usener
    • Thanks 2
    • 201 Downloads

  4. P. Herc. 1044 - Life of Philōnídēs

    • Cassius
    • April 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
    Bryan's Edition of the Life of Philōnídēs (P.Herc. 1044), which is quoted in part in the Epicurea at U95.
    • Thanks 1
    • 264 Downloads

  5. Diogenes Laertius Book X - Core Texts of Epicurus - Three Public Domain Versions In One PDF - By Tau Phi

    • Cassius
    • September 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
    Tau Phi's Edition of The Yonge, Bailey, and Hicks Translations of core parts of Diogenes Laertius Book X. The PDF is bookmarked with direct links to the letters of Epicurus and to the Principal Doctrines.
    • Like 1
    • 2.8k Downloads

  6. David Sedley - Epucurean vs Cyreniac Happiness

    • Cassius
    • February 23, 2025 at 6:48 AM
    Eudaimonia, happiness, is a property of a whole life, not of some portion of it. (Link to Article at the Academia.edu website.)
    • Like 1
    • 206 Downloads

  7. PROLEGOMENA AD HOMERUM - Middlebury College - William Harris

    • Cassius
    • July 1, 2024 at 6:05 AM
    A thoughtful approach to acquiring Latin and Greek.
    • 293 Downloads

  8. David Glidden - Aristotelian Perception and the Problem of Hellenistic Representation

    • Cassius
    • March 8, 2023 at 6:45 PM
    David Glidden on the view of representation in Hellenistic thought (relevant to Epicurean epistemology and anticipations).
    • 486 Downloads

  9. Jeffrey Fish - Not All Politicians Are Sisyphus - What Roman Epicureans Were Taught About Politics

    • Cassius
    • March 6, 2023 at 10:43 PM
    Well researched presentation of the argument that Epicurean philosophy can embrace, in proper circumstances, prudent participation in political affairs. I think this document is likely to become one of our key references on "engagement with society."
    • Thanks 1
    • 364 Downloads

  10. Epicurean Prolepsis - David Glidden

    • Cassius
    • February 21, 2023 at 8:00 PM
    Excellent article on Epicurean Prolepsis, arguing that both the account of Cicero and of Diogenes Laertius give distorted views of preconceptions.
    • 443 Downloads

  11. Method and Evidence - Epicurean Proconceptions - Morel - Konstan

    • Cassius
    • February 21, 2023 at 7:55 PM
    Morel and Konstan paper on Preconceptions
    • 344 Downloads

  12. Norman DeWitt - "Epicurus - All Sensations Are True"

    • Cassius
    • December 29, 2022 at 12:23 PM
    DeWitt's interpretation of the "all sensations are true" controversy.
    • 356 Downloads

  13. Norman DeWitt - Philosophy For The Millions (1947)

    • Cassius
    • July 11, 2022 at 12:04 PM
    Norman DeWitt's 1947 article summarizing he significance of Epicurus and his philosophy.
    • 392 Downloads

  14. 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...
    • 671 Downloads

  15. Epicurean Mission and Membership From The Early Garden To The Late Roman Republic

    • Cassius
    • May 8, 2022 at 6:15 AM
    A very good article covering the "missionary" aspect of the Epicurean movement.
    • 456 Downloads

  16. David Sedley - The Ethics of Brutus and Cassius

    • Cassius
    • April 12, 2022 at 5:12 PM
    Discussion of the philosophical underpinnings (Epicurean, Platonist, and Stoic) of the Assassination of Julius Caesar
    • Thanks 2
    • 7 Downloads

  17. Significance of Worship And Prayer Among the Epicureans - Hadzits

    • Cassius
    • March 3, 2022 at 4:31 PM
    Significance of Worship And Prayer Among the Epicureans - Hadzits
    • 360 Downloads

  18. Thus Purred Catius' Cat

    • Cassius
    • March 2, 2022 at 6:21 AM
    2016 Cassius Amicus poem for children.
    • Like 1
    • 387 Downloads

  19. Catius' Cat And The Forty Mice

    • Cassius
    • March 2, 2022 at 6:15 AM
    2016 Children's Poem By Cassius Amicus
    • Like 1
    • 414 Downloads

  20. 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
    • 516 Downloads

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