Paradosis and survival : three chapters in the history of Epicurean philosophy / Diskin Clay.
Clay, Diskin.
1998
B512 .C57 1998 (Mapit)
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Title
Paradosis and survival : three chapters in the history of Epicurean philosophy / Diskin Clay.
Author
Clay, Diskin.
ISBN
0472108964 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472108961 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Publication Details
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1998.
Language
English
Description
xix, 284 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Call Number
B512 .C57 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification
187
Summary
Paradosis and Survival presents fifteen essays devoted to recovering the three main phases of Epicurean philosophy in antiquity: its origin in the first generation of the school in Athens; its spread to Italy in the first century B.C.; and its arrival in Lycia in the second century A.D.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and index.
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Ch. 1. Athens. 1. Epicurus' Last Will and Testament. 2. Epicurus' [Kyria Doxa] XVII. 3. Epicurus in the Archives of Athens. 4. Individual and Community in the First Generation of the Epicurean School. 5. The Cults of Epicurus
Ch. 2. Italy. 6. Philodemus on the Plain Speaking of the Other Philosophers. 7. De Rerum Natura: Greek Physis and Epicurean Physiologia (Lucretius 1.1-148). 8. The Sources of Lucretius' Inspiration. 9. An Anatomy of Lucretian Metaphor. 10. Lucretius' Gigantomachy
Ch. 3. Oenoanda. 11. Sailing to Lampsacus: Diogenes of Oenoanda, New Fragment 7. 12. The Means to Epicurus' Salvation: The "Crux" at Diogenes of Oenoanda, NF 7 II 12. 13. Philippson's "Basilica" and Diogenes' Stoa (Diogenes of Oenoanda, Fr. 51).

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