Epicurus
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- tlg0537
- CITE id:
- urn:cite:perseus:author.561
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- tlg0537
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- LCCN n 79121664
- Name:
- Epicurus
- Abbr:
- Epicur.
- Alt names:
- Έπίκουρος
Epikuros
Ėpikur
Epikúros,
Epiḳoros
Epicuro
Epikouros
Abīqūr
Yibijiulu
Épicure
Epʻikʻurosŭ
Epicurus, Philosophus
Epicur.
- Field of activity:
- Philosopher
Epicurean
- Notes:
- Spiegel, N. Epiḳoros, ha-ish u-mishnato, 1981: t.p. (Epiḳoros) added
t.p. (Epicurus [in rom.])
Silvestre, M.L. Democrito e Epicuro, 1985: t.p. (Epicuro)
His Kyriai doxai, c1988: t.p. (Epikouros)
Saʻīd, J. al-D. Abīqūr, 1991: p. 17 (b. 341 B.C.)
Yang, S. I-pi-chiu-lu, 1996: t.p. (I-pi-chiu-lu) p. 235, etc. (b. 341
B.C.
d. 271 B.C.)
L'atomisme antique, c1997: t.p. (Epicure)
Kodae Hŭirap yumullon, 1966: t.p. (Epʻikʻurosŭ)
TLG Canon of Greek Authors and Works, Third Edition, pg. 150
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol 2,
1867, p. 33-35: "Epicurus, a celebrated Greek philosopher and the founder of a philosophical school
called after him the Epirucean..."
Brill's New Pauly: "E. was born in 342/1 BC on Samos, where his father
Neocles, an Athenian citizen from the deme Gargettos, had moved as a cleric in 352. His
birthday was the 20th of Gamelion [1]. He had three brothers, Neocles, Chaeredemus and
Aristobulus. His early interest in philosophy is attested. He associated with the Platonist
Pamphilus (Diog. Laert. 10,14), and then on Teos listened to lectures given by the Democritean
and acquaintance of the sceptic Pyrrhon, Nausiphanes.... n contrast to other Hellenistic
philosophers, we have, apart from fragments by E.([2], cf. [3. 84ff.]), not only biographical
and doxographical material from Diogenes Laertius, but also three significant works (letters)
that have survived in their entirety (the authenticity of the Pythocles letter is admittedly
disputed): a) to Herodotus (= Epist. Hdt.), offering an outline of E.'s teaching on nature
(cosmos, images, senses, atoms, soul, bodies, qualities, worlds, the origin of culture and
language and heavenly phenomena) together with methodological tips (Diog. Laert. 10,35-83)
b)
the letter to Pythocles (= Epist. Pyth.) on meteorology and astronomy (μετέωρα
metéōra)
(Diog. Laert. 10,84-116) and c) the letter to Menoeceus (= Epist. Men.), in which E. discusses
the basis of his teaching for an art of living (ars vitae),..." Erler, Michael (Würzburg).
"Epicurus." Brill's New Pauly. Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and Helmuth
Schneider . Brill, 2009. Brill Online.
- Author info:
- Wikipedia
- Smith's Dictionary
Works Currently Cataloged
Epistula Prima Ad Herodotum
Epistula Secunda ad Pythoclem
Gnomologium Vaticanum Epicureum
Perditorum Librorum Reliquiae
