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Epicurus and Epicureanism

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Contents

Introductory remarks
Phillip Mitsis

Epicurus and the Epicurean School
Tiziano Dorandi

Epistemology
Gisela Striker

Atomism
David Konstan

Cosmology and Meteorology
Daryn Lehoux

Theology
Emidio Spinelli and Francesco Verde

Death
Stephen E. Rosenbaum

Hedonism
Voula Tsouna

Psychology
Elizabeth Asmis

Voluntary Action and Responsibility
Walter Englert

Friendship
Phillip Mitsis

Politics and Society
Geert Roskam

Language
Enrico Piergiacomi

Rhetoric
Clive Chandler

Poetics
Michael McOsker

Philodemus and the Herculaneum Papyri
Mario Capasso

Lucretius
Monica R. Gale

Horace and Vergil
Gregson Davis

Cicero
Carlos Lvy

Seneca and Epicurus
Margaret Graver

Plutarch
Michael Erler

Diogenes of Oenoanda
Pamela Gordon

Epicurus and Epicureanism in Rabbinic Literature, Maimonides, and Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
Gabriel Danzig

Early Christianity
Ilaria Ramelli

Humanist Dissemination of Epicureanism
Ada Palmer

Materialism and the Early Modern Natural History of Man
Ann Thomson

Early Modern Epicureanism: Gassendi and Hobbes in Dialogue on Psychology, Ethics, and Politics
Gianni Paganini

Epicurus in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Thought: A Freedom of Pleasures?
Thomas M. Kavanagh

Thomas Jefferson
Carl J. Richard

Epicureanism and Utilitarianism
A. A. Long

Epicurus in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche
James I. Porter

Postmodernism
Eva Marie Noller and W. H. Shearin

Elizabeth Asmis Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., USA, and author of Epicurus Scientific Method (1984). Recent articles include Lucretius Reception of Epicurus: De Rerum Natura as a Conversion Narrative, The Stoics on the Craft of Poetry, and A Tribute to a Hero: Marxs interpretation of Epicureanism in his Dissertation. Asmis is currently working on Epicurean social philosophy and Roman political thought.

Mario Capasso Full Professor of Papyrology and Director of the Centro di Studi Papirologici at the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, where he founded and directs the Museo Papirologico. He is co-Director of the Archaeological Mission of the Centro, which has been working in Fayyum (Egypt) since 1993. He is President of the Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica and has published about 450 papyrological scientific works, including two handbooks on papyrology and one on Herculanean papyrology.

Clive Chandler Associate Professor in the School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His research interests include Philodemus, rhetoric, and the intellectual history of the Ancient World. He is the author of a book on Philodemus On Rhetoric Books 1 and 2 (first edition 2006). He is currently working on madness in Ancient Greek literature.

Gabriel Danzig Associate Professor in the department of classical studies at Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. His primary area of research is philosophical literature of the classical period. His publications include articles and a book on Socrates, Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle. He has also published articles on Greek and Roman themes in Jewish literature, including on Socrates, the concept of friendship, and debates between Rabbis and Greek and Roman figures.

Gregson Davis Andrew W. Mellon Research Professor in the Humanities at Duke University, Durham, N.C., USA. His primary research specialty is in the interpretation of poetic texts in the Greco-Roman as well as Caribbean traditions. In the domain of Late Republican and Augustan poetry, he has published monographs on Horaces Odes (Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse) and Ovids Metamorphoses (The Death of Procris: Amor and the Hunt in Ovids Metamorphoses). His most recent book on Augustan poetry is Parthenope: The Interplay of Ideas in Vergilian Bucolic (2012).

Tiziano Dorandi Director of Research in the French National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) UMR 8230, Centre J. Ppin, Paris, France. His interests include papyrology, textual criticism, and ancient philosophy. He is the author of Filodemo. Storia dei filosofi. Platone e lAcademia (1991), Ricerche sulla cronologia dei filosofi ellenistici (1991), Filodemo. Storia dei filosofi. La Sto da Zenone a Panezio (1994), Antigone de Caryste. Fragments (1999), and Diogenes Laertius Lives of Eminent Philosophers (2013).

Walter Englert Omar and Althea Hoskins Professor of Classics and Humanities, Emeritus, at Reed College, Portland, Ore., USA. He received his Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford University, and his research focuses on ancient philosophy, especially on Epicurus, the Stoics, and the reception of Greek philosophy in Rome. He has published on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Cicero, and is the author of a translation of Lucretius, On the Nature of Things.

Michael Erler Senior Professor and chair of the board of directors of the Siebald Collegium Institute for Advanced Studies (SCIAS) of the University of Wrzburg, Wrzburg, Germany. He is the author of Epikur-Die Schule Epikurs-Lukrez (1994), Rmische Philosophie (1997), Plato (2007); editor of Epikureismus in der spten Republik und der Kaiserzeit (2000); co-editor of Philosophie der Lust. Studien zum Hedonismus (2012); and has published various articles on Plato, Platonism, Epicurus, Epicureanism, the relation between literature and Greek philosophy, and Greek drama.

Monica R. Gale Professor in Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Her publications include Myth and Poetry in Lucretius (1994), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000), Lucretius and the Didactic Epic (2001), and other books and articles on Lucretius, and on the poetry of the Late Republican and Augustan periods.

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