Oxford Handbook Of Epicurus And Epicureanism

2020·10.8 MB·English

by  PHILLIP MITSIS

T H E O X F O R D H A N D B O O K O F
EPICURUS AND
EPICUREANISM
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
EPICURUS AND
EPICUREANISM
Edited by
PHILLIP MITSIS
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C
ONTENTS
List of Contributors
Introductory remarks
P M
HILLIP ITSIS
PART I EPICURUS
1. Epicurus and the Epicurean School
T D
IZIANO ORANDI
2. Epistemology
G S
ISELA TRIKER
3. Atomism
D K
AVID ONSTAN
4. Cosmology and Meteorology
D L
ARYN EHOUX
5. Theology
E S F V
MIDIO PINELLI AND RANCESCO ERDE
6. Death
S E. R
TEPHEN OSENBAUM
7. Hedonism
V T
OULA SOUNA
8. Psychology
E A
LIZABETH SMIS
9. Voluntary Action and Responsibility
W E
ALTER NGLERT
10. Friendship
P M
HILLIP ITSIS
11. Politics and Society
G R
EERT OSKAM
12. Language
E P
NRICO IERGIACOMI
13. Rhetoric
C C
LIVE HANDLER
14. Poetics
M M O
ICHAEL C SKER
PART II ANCIENT EPICUREANISM AND ITS
CRITICS
15. Philodemus and the Herculaneum Papyri
M C
ARIO APASSO
16. Lucretius
M R. G
ONICA ALE
17. Horace and Vergil
G D
REGSON AVIS
18. Cicero
C L
ARLOS ÉVY
19. Seneca and Epicurus
M G
ARGARET RAVER
20. Plutarch
M E
ICHAEL RLER
21. Diogenes of Oenoanda
P G
AMELA ORDON
22. Epicurus and Epicureanism in Rabbinic Literature, Maimonides, and
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
G D
ABRIEL ANZIG
23. Early Christianity
I R
LARIA AMELLI
PART III EARLY MODERN AND LATER
RECEPTION
24. Humanist Dissemination of Epicureanism
A P
DA ALMER
25. Materialism and the Early Modern “Natural History of Man”
A T
NN HOMSON
26. Early Modern Epicureanism: Gassendi and Hobbes in Dialogue on
Psychology, Ethics, and Politics
G P
IANNI AGANINI
27. Epicurus in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Thought: A
“Freedom of Pleasures”?
T M. K
HOMAS AVANAGH
28. Thomas Jefferson
C J. R
ARL ICHARD
29. Epicureanism and Utilitarianism
A. A. L
ONG
30. Epicurus in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Hegel, Marx, and
Nietzsche
J I. P
AMES ORTER
31. Postmodernism
E M N W. H. S
VA ARIE OLLER AND HEARIN
Index
L C
IST OF ONTRIBUTORS
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: Marx’s 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,