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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. Jeffrey Fish - Not All Politicians Are Sisyphus - What Roman Epicureans Were Taught About Politics

    • Cassius
    • March 6, 2023 at 10:43 PM
    Well researched presentation of the argument that Epicurean philosophy can embrace, in proper circumstances, prudent participation in political affairs. I think this document is likely to become one of our key references on "engagement with society."
    • Thanks 1
    • 397 Downloads

  2. Epicurean Verses For When You're Feeling...

    • Eikadistes
    • March 6, 2023 at 9:17 AM
    The intention of this document is to be used as a functional instrument toward reinforcing the health of one's soul.
    • Love 1
    • 37 Downloads

  3. Epicurean Prolepsis - David Glidden

    • Cassius
    • February 21, 2023 at 8:00 PM
    Excellent article on Epicurean Prolepsis, arguing that both the account of Cicero and of Diogenes Laertius give distorted views of preconceptions.
    • 477 Downloads

  4. Method and Evidence - Epicurean Proconceptions - Morel - Konstan

    • Cassius
    • February 21, 2023 at 7:55 PM
    Morel and Konstan paper on Preconceptions
    • 367 Downloads

  5. Norman DeWitt - "Epicurus - All Sensations Are True"

    • Cassius
    • December 29, 2022 at 12:23 PM
    DeWitt's interpretation of the "all sensations are true" controversy.
    • 377 Downloads

  6. 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
    • 535 Downloads

  7. Norman DeWitt - Philosophy For The Millions (1947)

    • Cassius
    • July 11, 2022 at 12:04 PM
    Norman DeWitt's 1947 article summarizing he significance of Epicurus and his philosophy.
    • 424 Downloads

  8. 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...
    • 708 Downloads

  9. 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.
    • 489 Downloads

  10. David Sedley - The Ethics of Brutus and Cassius

    • Cassius
    • April 12, 2022 at 5:12 PM
    Discussion of the philosophical underpinnings (Epicurean, Platonist, and Stoic) of the Assassination of Julius Caesar
    • Thanks 2
    • 9 Downloads

  11. Significance of Worship And Prayer Among the Epicureans - Hadzits

    • Cassius
    • March 3, 2022 at 4:31 PM
    Significance of Worship And Prayer Among the Epicureans - Hadzits
    • 381 Downloads

  12. Thus Purred Catius' Cat

    • Cassius
    • March 2, 2022 at 6:21 AM
    2016 Cassius Amicus poem for children.
    • Like 1
    • 446 Downloads

  13. Catius' Cat And The Forty Mice

    • Cassius
    • March 2, 2022 at 6:15 AM
    2016 Children's Poem By Cassius Amicus
    • Like 1
    • 458 Downloads

  14. 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
    • 562 Downloads

  15. CIcero's Presentation of Epicurean Ethics - By Mary Porter Packer (1938)

    • Cassius
    • February 16, 2022 at 1:27 PM
    A study based primarily on De Finibus I and II
    • Like 1
    • 457 Downloads

  16. 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.
    • 786 Downloads

  17. Joshua's Reading of The Torquatus Narrative of Epicurean Ethics - From Cicero's "On Ends"

    • Cassius
    • January 27, 2022 at 9:02 AM
    One of the best summaries of Epicurean Philosophy available anywhere.
    • Like 1
    • 8 Downloads

  18. Epicurus's Letter to Menoikeus - A New Translation with Commentary

    • Don
    • July 19, 2023 at 11:25 PM
    An in-depth translation and commentary of Epicurus's Letter to Menoikeus.
    • Love 2
    • 142 Downloads

  19. Epicurean Conturbernium - Essay By Norman DeWitt

    • Cassius
    • December 28, 2021 at 7:01 PM
    VI.-Epicurean Contubernium NORMAN W. DEWITT - UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    • Like 1
    • 396 Downloads

  20. Tyndal - Address at Belfast

    • Cassius
    • November 1, 2021 at 8:05 PM
    TXT version of file for cleanup for use in text-to-speech engines
    • 0 Downloads

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