Epicureanism

References and further reading

	Aristotle (c. mid 4th century ) Physics, trans. in J. Barnes (ed.) The Complete Works of Aristotle, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984. (Book VI, especially chapters 1 and 10, contains challenges to ‘partless’ constituents of magnitude, to which Epicurus seems to be responding.)
	Asmis, E. (1986) Epicurus’ Scientific Method, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (The fullest account of Epicurean epistemology.)
	Cicero (45) On Ends, trans. H. Rackham in De finibus bonorum et malorum (On the Ends of Good and Evil), Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press and London: Heinemann, 1914. (Latin text with English translation; Epicurean ethics is expounded in Book I and criticized in Book II.)
	Cicero (45) On the Nature of the Gods, trans. H. Rackham, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press and London: Heinemann, 1933. (Latin text with English translation; Book I is a report and critique of Epicurean theology.)
	Diogenes Laertius (c. early 3rd century ) Lives of the Philosophers, trans. R.D. Hicks, Diogenes Laertius Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press and London: Heinemann, 1925, 2 vols. (Book X, in volume 2, contains the life of Epicurus, along with complete texts of his three letters and the Key Doctrines.)
	Festugière, A.J. (1946) Epicure et ses dieux, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France;; trans. C.W. Chilton, Epicurus and his Gods, Oxford: Blackwell, 1955. (Brilliant and accessible portrayal of Epicureanism’s philosophical mission.)
	Furley, D.J. (1967) Two Studies in the Greek Atomists, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Classic investigation of Epicurus’ theories of minima and free will; fairly technical.)
	Jones, H. (1989) The Epicurean Tradition, London: Duckworth. (Useful guide to the influence of Epicureanism in antiquity and after.)
	Long, A.A. (1974) Hellenistic Philosophy, London: Duckworth. (Includes the best introductory account of Epicureanism.)
	Long, A.A. and Sedley, D.N. (1987) The Hellenistic Philosophers, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2 vols. (Volume 1 contains translations of the principal texts, with commentary, volume 2 the original Greek and Latin; Epicureanism is in §§4–25.)
	Lucretius (c. 55) On the Nature of Things, trans. W.H.D. Rouse, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press and London: Heinemann, 1975. (Latin text with English translation, revised by M.F. Smith.)
	Mitsis, P. (1988) Epicurus’ Ethical Theory, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Lucid philosophical critique.)
	Philodemus (c. 40) On Signs, ed. P. De Lacy and E. De Lacy, Philodemus on Methods of Inference, Naples: Bibliopolis, 1978. (With English translation and notes; a classic record of a Stoic Epicurean debate on scientific inference.)
	Usener, H. (1887) Epicurea, Stuttgart: Teubner. (Still the major collection of Epicurean texts and testimonia, but without translation.)