Epicurus and the Epicurean tradition / edited by Jeffrey Fish and Kirk R. Sanders.

• Introduction / Jeffrey Fish and Kirk R. Sanders -- Autodidact and student: on the relationship of authority and autonomy in Epicurus and the Epicurean tradition / Michael Erler -- Epicurus' theological innatism / David Sedley -- Epicurus on the gods / David Konstan -- Not all politicians are Sisyphus: what Roman Epicureans were taught about politics / Jeffrey Fish -- Epicurean virtues, Epicurean friendship: Cicero vs the Herculaneum papyri / David Armstrong -- Cicero's use and abuse of Epicurean theology / Holger Essler -- The necessity of anger in Philodemus' On anger / Elizabeth Asmis -- Philodemus, Seneca and Plutarch on anger / Voula Tsouna -- Philodemus and the fear of premature death / Kirk R. Sanders.

• Demonstrates the vitality and development of Epicureanism after Epicurus, and especially the dynamic interplay between tradition and innovation. 

Ämnesord

Epicureans (Greek philosophy)  (LCSH)

Epicureans (Greek philosophy)  (fast)

Epikureismus  (gnd)

Epicurisme.  (gtt)

Epikureer.  (idszbz)

Philosophie.  (idszbz)

PHILOSOPHY  -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical. (bisacsh)

Griechenland (Altertum)  (idszbz)

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Congressen (vorm)  (gtt)

Electronic books. 

Personnamn

Epicurus.

Epicurus.

Epikur.

Klassifikation

B512 (LCC)

187 (DDC)

PHI002000 (bisacsh)

Dbac (kssb/8 (machine generated))