Tomorrow I will have the chance to attend a meeting organized by the "La Sapienza" University of Rome entitled "The Epicureism in the Imperial Age". There will be very important professors, such as Francesco Verde, certainly the most important Epicurean scholar in Italy. I asked permission to resume the speeches, so I will share them with you, at least with those who understand Italian.

Epicureanism in the Imperial Age
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sounds fascinating! Anything in writing you send we can try to run through Google translate.
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Here the titles:
Francesco Verde: Epicureism in the imperial age: an introductory sketchJurgen Hammerstaedt: Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria against Epicurean atomism
Enrico Piergiacomi (http://epicuro.org/liberta-piacer…-piergiacomi/): The Epicurean Damide and the Zeus tragedo of Luciano. Epicurean rhetoric and theology in Imperial Rome
Alison Keith: Epicurean currents in Martial's Epigrams
Selene I.S. Brumana: Epicurus's "non-philosophy" according to the Platonist Maximus of Tire
Federico Giulio Corsi: The Epicureism of Diogenes of Enoanda
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Anything you can learn about the "suppression" of Epicurean thought would be of interest too. I think I keep reading that Octavian clamped down on "private associations" but i have never been clear about the evidence or relevance of that
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I'll write somothing about it later, but most of the relators agree about Epicureism was very popular until IV century.
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Cassius
November 22, 2019 at 7:04 PM Changed the title of the thread from “The Epicureism in the Imperial Age” to “Epicureanism in the Imperial Age”.
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