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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. Philodemus - A Study Of His Ethical Works

    • Cassius
    • March 20, 2019 at 10:26 PM
    Philodemus
    • 5.9k Downloads

  2. 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
    • 3.2k Downloads

  3. Where was the Garden of Epicurus? The Evidence from the Ancient Sources and Archaeology

    • Don
    • April 19, 2023 at 11:10 PM
    While we will probably never know the exact location of Epicurus’s Garden in ancient Athens, we can take a number of educated guesses.
    • Like 1
    • 1.3k Downloads

  4. Epicurus: The Summum Bonum Fallacy

    • Cassius
    • February 13, 2022 at 4:00 PM
    The aim of this article is to show how the lack of a definite article in Latin obliterated the doctrine of Epicurus that life itself and not pleasure is the greatest good.
    • 811 Downloads

  5. Sedley: "Epicurus' Refutation of Determinism"

    • Cassius
    • June 3, 2020 at 8:40 AM
    1983 Paper which is the one of the best treatments of Epicurus' view of the Free Will / Agency / Determinism issue available.
    • 768 Downloads

  6. Nikolsky - Epicurus On Pleasure

    • Cassius
    • January 13, 2018 at 6:54 PM
    One of the most important articles on this site: Boris Nikolsky details one theory about the history of the "Kinetic / Katestematic" distinction.
    • 759 Downloads

  7. 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...
    • 742 Downloads

  8. The Pleasure of Knowledge. Reassessing Nussbaum's Interpretation of Epicurean Therapy - Elena Nicoli

    • jbaker
    • April 11, 2018 at 8:30 PM
    A Contested Influence. Hellenistic Philosophy and Modern Thought from Nietzsche to Nussbaum
    • 687 Downloads

  9. The Hedonicon: The Holy Book of Epicurus

    • Eikadistes
    • December 21, 2023 at 4:43 PM
    The Hedonicon is an Epicurean Bible.
    • Love 3
    • 659 Downloads

  10. "Epicurus' Last Will and Testament" - by Diskin Clay

    • Cassius
    • January 23, 2021 at 3:15 PM
    Article by Diskin Clay
    • 614 Downloads

  11. Gosling & Taylor - On Katastematic and Kinetic Pleasure

    • Cassius
    • February 3, 2018 at 1:28 PM
    Gosling & Taylor on Katastematic and Kinetic Pleasure
    • 600 Downloads

  12. 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
    • 586 Downloads

  13. Epicurean Preconceptions - Tsouna

    • Cassius
    • April 13, 2019 at 11:14 PM
    Epicurean Preconceptions
    • 574 Downloads

  14. How Became Known To Us The Portrait of The Athenian Philosopher Epicurus - Takis Pangiotopoulos -

    • Cassius
    • May 26, 2021 at 8:29 AM
    Takis' summary of the history of the identification of Epicurus through artwork
    • 567 Downloads

  15. Epicurus’s Birthday: The 7th, 10th, or 20th of Gamelion - Mystery Solved

    • Don
    • December 26, 2022 at 12:07 AM
    This paper outlines the reasons to accept that Epicurus was born on the 20th day of the month of Gamelion.
    • Love 2
    • 563 Downloads

  16. Long: "Chance and Natural Law In Epicureanism"

    • Cassius
    • June 28, 2019 at 8:52 AM
    Long: "Chance and Natural Law In Epicureanism"
    • 539 Downloads

  17. 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).
    • 538 Downloads

  18. Morel - "Method and Evidence: On Epicurean Preconception"

    • Cassius
    • June 25, 2021 at 3:52 PM
    Article on Epicurean preconceptions
    • 516 Downloads

  19. DeWitt on Isonomy

    • Cassius
    • January 22, 2018 at 1:51 PM
    DeWitt on Isonomy, one of the Epicurean arguments for divinity
    • 516 Downloads

  20. 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.
    • 507 Downloads

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