Lucretius, epicurean and poet Excerpt from the author's introduction: Lucretius' style is of the clearest, but his poem is so closely packed with Epicurean doctrines, and these are often so intricate, that we cannot dispense with an exposit…
Vewnus vs. Mars: A Modern, Practical Framework for Epicurean Ataraxia (Plus a 14-Day Self-Experiment) When people read Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura ( On the Nature of Things ), they are often struck by its dramatic opening: Venus , the force of lif…
On the nature of things On the nature of things This book was published in 1919, it is a translation of the great poem "on the nature of things" by the Roman poet Lucretius who was a follower of Epicurus. This is the best translation in m…
The Memories of Epicurus is a captivating bridge between the distant past and modern psychological needs The Memories of Epicurus Writer's note: This reason that I wrote this simple book is my gratitude for Epicurus and his teaching including na…
Lucretius On the nature of things Lucretius On the nature of things The purpose of the poem is to convert the reader to the Epicurean system of philosophy. At some time in his life Lucretius had fallen in with this system and had embraced it as the …
Death in Stoic and Epicurean Philosophy: An Academic Perspective Death in Stoic and Epicurean Philosophy Stoicism for Skeptics: A Secular Path to Resilience - PDF book Free Book For the Stoics, death is not a tragedy to be feared but rather a natu…
A history of eclecticism in Greek philosophy This is a translation of the second section of Dr. Zeller's "Philosophic der Griechen, Dritter Theil, Erste Abtheilung." The first section of the volume, concerning the Stoics, Epicureans, a…
Lucretius and his influence While we know the exact dates of birth and death of many of our Roman authors, those of Titus Lucretius Carus are curiously obscured. From statements, conflicting as they are, in Donatus and Jerome, who lived about four …
Controversial elements in Lucretius Controversial elements in Lucretius Contemporary Interest in Epicureanism. It cannot be denied that the poem of Lucretius failed to awaken any marked interest until long after its publication. The almost unbroke…
Epicureanism From introduction: When the Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius, to-wards the close of the second century of our era, resolved to give Imperial sanction to the higher teaching of the Roman world by the state endowment of a philosophical prof…
Epicurus This little volume is, as its title proclaims, a brief study of the thought and temperament of a remarkable man, not the history of a scientific school. The band of comrades who gathered round Epicurus in his Garden were held together not …
Lucretius on life and death In the metre of Omar Khayyām; to which are appended parallel passages from the original; Excerpt: Few philosophical poems in the English language have been more widely read than the poem in which the genius of FitzGe…
Epicurus And His Philosophy An excerpt from the author's introduction the aim of this study is threefold: first, to organize the surviving data on the life of Epicurus into a consequential biographical sketch so as to throw some light upon the g…
Lucretius and the atomic The main interest of the De Rerum Natura, thus, does not depend on simple observation and the description of phenomena, or on an aesthetical contemplation of them. We have these elements certainly, but they are entirely su…
