Reference Material For The Wednesday Night Epicurea Zooms - Find The Latest Copy of The Usener's Epicurea PDF Here!

Great! Yes we can keep using that link, and I can update it going forward.

We are on page 248! EPICUREA 12.23.24.pdf

We are on page 310! EPICUREA 2.7.25.pdf

This version now includes book 25.

Hello Cassius. Link to update is below:

EPICUREA 3.9.25.pdf

We are on page 346, thank you!

Link to update:

EPICUREA 3.30.25.pdf

We are on Page 379.

Relevant to our last Wednesday meeting. Quick (only 4 pages) but interesting read about Diodorus Cronus.

(pages 131-135)

Thank you, TauPhi. The author is surprisingly honest about his structure: "it will perhaps be best to underrate the originality of Epicurus here rather than exaggerate it; so I shall assume, merely for the sake of argument, that Diodorus comes first." The most important point is that they were contemporaries.

The predominance of motion is an interesting angle of attack from Diodorus. Given that the atoms are totally solid, I do not imagine the minima are capable of individual movement. Even the “softest” atom is really just “smooth" but also hard. The minima are parts — but not bendable or independently moveable parts. So I think the assumption of a moving minima is where his predominance-of-motion argument fails. That is, it fails at the beginning, like most of his nonsense.

I wanted to include the Life of Philōnídēs (P.Herc. 1044). Which is quoted in part in the Epicurea at U95.

The Greek is a mix of the readings of Gallo, Assante, and Nicolardi. I have in no place added to the Greek. There is no agreement as to the order, so I have tried to make it roughly chronological.

The comments of the Italian scholars are given via computer transition. There are mistakes, please let me know if you see them.

P.Herc. 1044.pdf

I am incorporating it into the Epicurea as an addendum, it works better that way to continue editing and (more importantly) cross-referencing all the material. I've already made a few corrections on it there.

Quote from Cassius

an index or table of contents page for P. Herc.?

I am still following Usener closely. But once we are done with the Epicurea, that will probably be the best way to find and organize even more new material.