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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. David Sedley - "Epicurean Anti-Reductionism" - 1988

    • Cassius
    • March 30, 2026 at 2:44 PM
    New Epicurean philosophy, although grounded in atomism, cannot be understood as a purely reductionist system.
    • Like 2
    • 19 Downloads

  2. "The Inferential Foundations of Epicurean Ethics" - Article By David Sedley

    • Cassius
    • January 23, 2026 at 11:29 AM
    David Sedley compares Epicurus' arguments in favor of atomism in physics with his arguments in favor of pleasure as the focus of ethics.
    • Like 1
    • 40 Downloads

  3. Antiochus IV Epiphanes And Jerusalem

    • Cassius
    • December 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
    A collection of information about what is known of the Epicurean background of Antiochus IV Epiphanes.
    • Love 1
    • 91 Downloads

  4. Bernier - Gassendi's Three Discourses on Happiness, Virtue, and Liberty

    • Cassius
    • November 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
    This book is focused on Epicurean philosophy and explaining it in context with other philosophers.
    • Like 1
    • 10 Downloads

  5. Plutarch's Essays On EpicureanIsm

    • Cassius
    • July 31, 2025 at 7:10 AM
    Plutarch's Essays On EpicureanIsm
    • 10 Downloads

  6. Epicurea - Bryan's Edition of Epicurean Fragments Based On Usener

    • Cassius
    • April 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
    Bryan's Edition of Epicurean Fragments Based On Usener
    • Thanks 2
    • 250 Downloads

  7. P. Herc. 1044 - Life of Philōnídēs

    • Cassius
    • April 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
    Bryan's Edition of the Life of Philōnídēs (P.Herc. 1044), which is quoted in part in the Epicurea at U95.
    • Thanks 1
    • 317 Downloads

  8. 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
    • 3.3k Downloads

  9. David Sedley - Epicurean vs Cyreniac Happiness

    • Cassius
    • February 23, 2025 at 6:48 AM
    Eudaimonia, happiness, is a property of a whole life, not of some portion of it. (Link to Article at the Academia.edu website.)
    • Like 2
    • 262 Downloads

  10. PROLEGOMENA AD HOMERUM - Middlebury College - William Harris

    • Cassius
    • July 1, 2024 at 6:05 AM
    A thoughtful approach to acquiring Latin and Greek.
    • 338 Downloads

  11. 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).
    • 544 Downloads

  12. 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
    • 412 Downloads

  13. 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.
    • 492 Downloads

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

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

  15. 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.
    • 395 Downloads

  16. 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.
    • 440 Downloads

  17. 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...
    • 746 Downloads

  18. 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.
    • 511 Downloads

  19. 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

  20. 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
    • 402 Downloads

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