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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.

  1. Thus Purred Catius' Cat

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

  2. Catius' Cat And The Forty Mice

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

  3. 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
    • 598 Downloads

  4. 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
    • 483 Downloads

  5. 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.
    • 835 Downloads

  6. 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

  7. 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
    • 443 Downloads

  8. 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

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

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

  10. 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
    • 588 Downloads

  11. Diskin Clay - A Brief Memoir for Angelo Casanova (regarding Oinoanda)

    • Cassius
    • January 23, 2021 at 3:40 PM
    This is a document sent to me by Diskin Clay in 2013
    • 7 Downloads

  12. A Lost Epicurean Community - By Diskin Clay

    • Cassius
    • January 23, 2021 at 3:23 PM
    A Lost Epicurean Community - By Diskin Clay
    • Thanks 1
    • 20 Downloads

  13. Lucretius' Translation of Greek Philosophy - By Diskin Clay

    • Cassius
    • January 23, 2021 at 3:20 PM
    Lucretius' Translation of Greek Philosophy - By Diskin Clay
    • 94 Downloads

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

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

  15. Frances Wright's "Course of Popular Lectures" - Volume 2 - 1836

    • Cassius
    • September 24, 2020 at 6:53 AM
    Frances Wright's "Course of Popular Lectures" - Volume 2 - 1836
    • 445 Downloads

  16. Frances Wright's "Course of Popular Lectures" - Volume 1 1829

    • Cassius
    • September 24, 2020 at 6:48 AM
    Frances Wright's "Course of Popular Lectures" 1829
    • 466 Downloads

  17. Norman DeWitt - Epicurus On Immediate Presentations ("Phantasias")

    • Cassius
    • August 17, 2020 at 8:55 PM
    The title is open to correction. If anyone would like to suggest something better, please add a note in the comments.
    • Thanks 1
    • 419 Downloads

  18. 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.
    • 796 Downloads

  19. Tsouna - Epicurean Preconceptions (2016 Article)

    • Cassius
    • May 2, 2020 at 6:14 PM
    Epicurean Preconceptions
    • 464 Downloads

  20. Article by Norman DeWitt: Epicurus, ΠϵρὶΦαντασίας (Present Impressions of the Mind)

    • Cassius
    • April 17, 2020 at 7:04 AM
    Article By Norman Dewitt on Present Impressions of the mind
    • 370 Downloads

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