Epicurus in Rome : : philosophical perspectives in the Ciceronian age / / edited by Sergio Yona, Gregson Davis.

• TeilnehmendeR: Yona, Sergio,; Davis, Gregson,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 207 pages) :; illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)
• Notes: "An online version of this work is published at doi.org/10.1017/9781009281416 under a Creative Commons Open Access license CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 which permits re-use, distribution and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes providing appropriate credit to the original work is given"--Title page verso.; Previously issued in print: 2022.

The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman republic is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This volume of essays, commissioned specially from a distinguished international group of scholars, explores the role and influence of Greek philosophy, specifically Epicure...

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction Sergio Yona; Part I. Epicurus and Roman Identities: 2. Sint ista Graecorum: How to be an Epicurean in Late Republican Rome - Evidence from Cicero's On Ends 1-2 Geert Roskam; 3. Cicero's Rhetoric of Anti-Epicureanism: Anonymity as Critique Daniel P. Hanchey; 4. Was Atticus an Epicurean? Nathan Gilbert; 5. Caesar the Epicurean? A Matter of Life and Death Katharina Volk; 6. Otium and Voluptas: Catullus and Roman Epicureanism Monica Gale; Part II. Epicurus and Lucretian Postures: 7. 'Love it or Leave it.' Nature's Ultimatum in Lucretius' On the Nature of Things (3.931-962) Elizabeth Asmis; 8. Kitsch, Death and the Epicurean Pamela Gordon; 9. Page, Stage, Image: Confronting Ennius with Lucretius' On the Nature of Things Mathias Hanses; 10. Lucretius on the Size of the Sun T. H. M. Gellar-Goad.