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A Contested Influence. Hellenistic Philosophy and Modern Thought from Nietzsche to Nussbaum

An article on the importance of "limits" in Epicurean philosophy.

Gosling & Taylor on Katastematic and Kinetic Pleasure

Every so often I like to remind people of two particularly important articles in our "files" section here.

DeWitt on Isonomy, one of the Epicurean arguments for divinity

One of the most important articles on this site: Boris Nikolsky Details Why The Kinetic/Katestematic Distinction Is Not Epicurean

Details of the Epicurean Criticism of Socrates for his character and method of teaching.

Book One of this text, devoted to discussion of Epicurean Philosophy, is a very important source of information on ancient Epicureanism.

This text is the best available English translation of the Life and Doctrines of Epicurus by Pierre Gassendi

A History of Atomism Up To And Including Epicurus

As of 2017, probably still the best and most complete collection of core Epicurean texts freely available on the internet.

This is a list of major characteristics of the Epicurean view of life.

This is number two in a series of handouts on the Fundamentals of Nature and Key Doctrines.

DeWitt's summary of what is known about organization and procedure in ancient Epicurean Groups as published in the July 1936 edition of Classical Philology.

A single-page PDF of the 12 Fundamentals of Nature (Physics) and the 40 Key Doctrines (Canonics, Ethics).