Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism

Phillip Mitsis is Professor of Classics and Hellenic Studies at New York University and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy, as well as Academic Director of the American Institute for Verdi Studies. He is a past president of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy and a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.

• Epicurus 1. Epicurus and the Epicurean School (Tiziano Dorandi) 2. Epistemology (Gisela Striker) 3. Atomism (David Konstan) 4. Cosmology and Meteorology (Daryn Lehoux) 5. Theology (Emidio Spinelli, Francesco Verde) 6. Death (Stephen Rosenbaum) 7. Hedonism (Voula Tsouna) 8. Psychology (Elizabeth Asmis) 9. Voluntary Action and Responsibility (Walter Englert) 10. Virtue, Friendship, and the Law (Phillip Mitsis) 11. Politics and Society (Geert Roskam) 12. The Epicurean Analysis of Language: Its Intent and Development (Enrico Piergiacomi) 13. Rhetoric (Clive Chandler) 14. Epicurean Poetic Theory (Michael McOsker) Ancient Epicureanism and Its Critics 15. Philodemus and the Herculaneum Papyri (Mario Capasso) 16. Lucretius (Monica Gale) 17. Epicureanism in Virgil and Horace (Gregson Davis) 18. Anti-Epicureanism in Cicero (Carlos Lévy) 19. Seneca's Reception of Epicureanism (Margaret Graver) 20. Plutarch (Michael Erler) 21. Diogenes of Oenoanda (Pamela Gordon) 22. Epicureanism in Jewish Thought (Gabriel Danzig) 23. Epicureanism and Early Christianity (Ilaria Ramelli) Early Modern and Later Reception 24. Renaissance Epicureanism (Ada Palmer) 25. Epicurean Materialism and Early Modern science (Ann Thomson) 26. Epicurean Influence on Early Modern Political Thought (Gianni Paganini) 27. Epicurus in 18th and 19th Century French Thought (Walter Kavanagh) 28. The Epicureanism of Thomas Jefferson (Carl J. Richard) 29. Epicurean Hedonism and Utilitarianism (A.A. Long) 30. Epicurus in 19th-Century Germany: Marx and Nietzsche (James Porter) 31. Postmodern Epicureanism (Wilson Shearin, Eva Noller)

This handbook is not only an authoritative collection of contributions meant to last, but it also strikes the reader as an impressively rich garland of reader-friendly and generally up-to-date flowers of scholarship that can survive boththorough scrutiny and intellectual fatigue.... With its commendable emphasis on the ancient and modern reception of Epicureanism, this volume can establish itself as the current most comprehensive port-of-call for all budding andadvanced scholars of Epicureanism.