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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. 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
    • 143 Downloads

  2. 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."
    • Like 1
    • 324 Downloads

  3. 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
    • 6 Downloads

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

    • Cassius
    • March 3, 2020 at 5:06 PM
    Article on the Epicurean attitude toward prayer and worship - says that they were undoubtedly sincere.
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    • 330 Downloads

  5. Major Characteristics of the Epicurean View of Life

    • Cassius
    • November 22, 2017 at 9:46 PM
    This is a list of major characteristics of the Epicurean view of life.
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    • 63 Downloads

  6. Foundations of Epicurean Philosophy - Single Page Handout

    • Cassius
    • November 21, 2017 at 11:18 AM
    A single-page PDF of the 12 Fundamentals of Nature (Physics) and the 40 Key Doctrines (Canonics, Ethics).
    • Love 2
    • 67 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
    • 156 Downloads

  8. Diogenes Laertius Book X - Core Texts of Epicurus - Three Public Domain Versions In One PDF - By Tau Phi

    • Cassius
    • April 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
    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
    • 472 Downloads

  9. David Sedley - Epucurean 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 1
    • 123 Downloads

  10. Thus Purred Catius' Cat

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

  11. Catius' Cat And The Forty Mice

    • Cassius
    • March 2, 2022 at 6:15 AM
    2016 Children's Poem By Cassius Amicus
    • Like 1
    • 379 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
    • 470 Downloads

  13. 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
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    • 377 Downloads

  14. 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

  15. Epicurean Conturbernium - Essay By Norman DeWitt

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

  16. 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

  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
    • 319 Downloads

  18. "Organization and Procedure in Epicurean Groups" - Norman DeWitt - 1936

    • Cassius
    • November 22, 2017 at 8:29 AM
    DeWitt's summary of what is known about organization and procedure in ancient Epicurean Groups as published in the July 1936 edition of Classical Philology.
    • Like 1
    • 39 Downloads

  19. Plutarch's Essays On EpicureanIsm

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

  20. PROLEGOMENA AD HOMERUM - Middlebury College - William Harris

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

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    2. Immutability of Epicurean school in ancient times 11

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