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The Cambridge companion to epicureanism / edited by James Warren. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - ix, 342 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / James Warren -- The Athenian garden / Diskin Clay -- Epicureanism in the Roman Republic / David Sedley -- Epicureanism in the Roman Empire / Michael Erler -- Epicurean atomism / Pierre-Marie Morel -- Epicurean empiricism / Elizabeth Asmis -- Cosmology and meteorology / Liba Taub -- Psychology / Christopher Gill -- Action and responsibility / Tim O'Keefe -- Pleasure and desire / Raphael Woolf -- Politics and society / Eric Brown -- Philosophy of language / Catherine Atherton -- Poetry and rhetoric / David Blank -- Removing fear : the gods and death / James Warren -- Epicurean therapy : pedagogy and improvement / Voula Tsouna -- Epicureanism in the early modern period / Catherine Wilson.

ISBN: 9780521873475 (hardback) 0521873479 (hardback) 9780521695305 (pbk.) 0521695309 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2009008249

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA944696 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015175076 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Epicureans (Greek philosophy)

LC Class. No.: B512 / .C35 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 187