Listen to the latest Lucretius Today Podcast! Episode 226 is now available. We begin (with the help of Cicero's Epicurean spokesman) the first of a series of episodes to analyze the Epicurean view of the nature of the gods.
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.
A compilation of translations of the Kuriai Doxai, the "Principal", "Key", or "Authorized Docrtines" by Epicurus, containing the contributions of C. D. Yonge (1853), William Wallace (1880), Robert Drew Hicks (1910), Cyril Bailey (1926), Norman W. De Witt (1954), R. M. Geer (1964), A. A. Long &, D. N. Sedley (1987), Eugene O'Connor (1993) Brad Inwood & Lloyd P. Gerson (1994), Erik Anderson (2004), Odysseus Makridis (2005), Peter Saint-Andre (2008), George K. Strodach (2012), Pamela Mensch (2018), Stephen White (2021), and N. H. Bartman (2023)
Please post comments, suggestions, proposed corrections, etc. to THIS thread (which is more easily searchable from the main Home page: Kuriai Doxai - A Compilation of Translations by Nathan Bartman
Foundations of Epicurean Philosophy
For a presentation of many details of Epicurean Philosophy assembled from a close paraphrase of passages of the ancient texts, see the slides, text, or video below. Each passage contains a citation to the text or texts from which the point is taken. For prior versions and for a discussion of this material go here.
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