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title	:	English Epicures and Stoics : Ancient Legacies in Early Stuart Culture Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
author	:	Barbour, Reid.
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	1558491716
print isbn13	:	9781558491717
ebook isbn13	:	9780585083117
language	:	English
subject	Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century, English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism, Great Britain--History--Early Stuarts, 1603-1649, Great Britain--Civilization--Greek influences, English literature--Greek influences, Phil
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	DA380.B37 1998eb
ddc	:	941.06
subject	:	Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century, English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism, Great Britain--History--Early Stuarts, 1603-1649, Great Britain--Civilization--Greek influences, English literature--Greek influences, Phil

Page i English Epicures and Stoics

Page ii A VOLUME IN THE SERIES Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture Edited by Arthur F. Kinney Editorial Board A. R. Braunmuller, Donald Foster, Jean E. Howard, John Pitcher, Anne Lake Prescott, David Harris Sacks, R. Malcolm Smuts, Jenny Wormald

Page iii English Epicures and Stoics Ancient Legacies in Early Stuart Culture Reid Barbour UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESSAmherst

Page iv Copyright 1998 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 98-21413 ISBN 1-55849-171-6 Designed by Sally Nichols Printed and bound by BookCrafters, Inc. Typeset in Garamond No. 3 by Graphic Composition, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Barbour, Reid. English epicures and stoics : ancient legacies in early Stuart culture / Reid Barbour. p. cm. (Massachusetts studies in early modern culture) Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. ISBN 1-55849-171-6 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Great BritainIntellectual life17th century. 2. English literatureEarly modern, 15001700History and criticism. 3. Great BritainHistoryEarly Stuarts, 16031649. 4. Great Britain CivilizationGreek influences. 5. English literatureGreek influences. 6. Philosophy, British17th century. 7. Epicureans (Greek philosophy). 8. Philosophy, Ancient. 9. Stoics. I. Title. II. Series. DA380.B37 1999 941.06dc2198-21413 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.

Page v To the students of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Page vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Political Epicurus 21 2. Epicurus in the Temple 75 3. Resolute Ford 112 4. The Honest Court 145 5. The Church Porch 195 6. The Collapse of Accommodation 240 Notes 269 Index 305

Page ix Acknowledgments I am grateful to the editors of the following journals for permission to use material published therein: material found in chapter 3 first appeared in Studies in Philology 86 (1989), as "John Ford and Resolve"; an early version of the opening section of chapter 2 was published in Studies in English Literature 32 (1992), as "Remarkable Ingratitude: Bacon, Prometheus, Democritus"; and a preliminary version of parts of chapters 1 and 2 appeared in

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