Index

Index

Abba Shaul

About the Criterion (Epicurus)

absolute metaphors of Blumenberg

abstract concept of value

Academica (Cicero)

Achilles

actions

feelings prompting

freedom of

necessary or “through ourselves”

Acts of the Apostles

Adams, John

Adriani, Marcello

Adversus Colotes (Plutarch)

philosophers, attacks on

on political leaders

Aeneid (Vergil)

Aenesidemus

Aetna (Anonymous)

afterlife

See

life after death

Against Colotes (Plutarch)

See

Adversum Colotem (Plutarch)

Against Craterus’s Refutation of “Demonstrations of Geometry” (Zeno of Sidon)

Against Empedocles (Hermarchus)

air, Seneca on

Akiva (Rabbi)

Aldus Manutius

Alexander, military strategist

Alexander Magnus

Allen, Walter

Almanach des gourmands (La Reynière)

altruism

ambition

Ambrose

Amoraitic materials

Anaxagoras

Anaxarchus of Abdera

Angeli, Anna

anger

Anima mundi (Blount)

animals

minds of

motion of

natures of

spirits or souls of

training

Annas, Julia

Anniceris

antanaplērōsis

anti-reductionism

anticipation, pleasure of

antimartyrēsis

antiperistasis

Antiphanes

antisemitism

Antisthenes

apatheia

Apiqoros

Maimonides on

See also

Rabbinic literature and Epicureanism

apiqorsut

apokatastasis of the Stoics

Apollodorus

Apollonius

Apollophanes

Apology (Plato)

aponia

See also

painlessness

Appleby, Joyce

Aratus of Soli

Arcesilaus

Argonautica (Apollonius)

Aristion

Aristippus of Cyrene

Aristippus the Younger

Aristo of Ceos

Aristotle

atomic theory of

Cicero’s opinion of

elements of

friendships of

generally accepted beliefs for

on hedonism

Maimonides and

marriage, right age for

on rhetoric

and the soul

space, nature of

theology of

Armstrong, David

Arnobius

Arrighetti, Graziano

arrogance

Ars Poetica (Horace)

Artemidorus

Asmis, Elizabeth

associationists

astral theology

Astronomica (Manilius)

ataraxia

Blumenberg on

gods and

Marx on

poetry and

Serres on

atheism of Epicurus, charges of

in early Christianity

Athenian Plague

atomism

Blumenberg on

Cicero on

and cosmology

criticism of by Plutarch

Derrida on

described

early Christianity and

in the eighteenth century

and hedonism

Hegel on

and infinity

Maimonides and

Marx on

minima of

minimal parts of

movement of

and the not strictly infinite

and poetics, similarity to

primary and secondary qualities of

resistance and

and self-development

Seneca on

sense perception and

sentience of atoms

simplicity of

and thought

and void

weight and

See also

swerve, atomic

attention, paying or not paying

attestation in sense perception

Atticus

Augustine

Aurispa, Giovanni

autarkeia

autonomy

Babylonian Talmud

Bachelard, Gaston

Bailey, Cyril

Balzac, Honoré de

Bar Kepha, Moses

Barbaro, Francesco

Bardaisan of Edessa

Barère, Bertrand de Vieuzac

Barhadbshabba

Basil of Nyssa

Basilides of Tyrus

Bassus, Aufidius

Bauer, Bruno

Baxter, Richard

Bayle, Pierre

beliefs

and feelings

and focusing the mind

not perceivable

perceivable

Bendlin, Andreas

Benitez, Miguel

Bentham, Jeremy

egoistic hedonism and

on happiness

on pain, absence of

on pleasure

Bentley, Richard

Berchoux, Joseph

Bernier, François

Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom (Jefferson)

Birth of Physics, The (Serres)

Birth of Tragedy, The (Nietzsche)

Blank, David

blessedness of the divine

Bloch, Herbert

Bloch, Olivier

Blount, Charles

Blumenberg, Hans

absolute metaphors of

on atomism

body

and hedonism

pleasures and pains of

properties of

Boethius

Boethus

Book of the Laws of Countries (Bardaisan)

Bourguet, Louis

Bowditch, P. L.

Boyancé, Pierre

Boyle, Robert

Bromius

Brown, Eric

Brown, Stuart

Brucker, Jakob

Bruni, Leonardo

Bruno, Giordano

Bucolics (Vergil)

Buffon

Burley, Walter

Cabanis, Pierre-Jean-Georges

Cabisius, Gail

Callimachus

Callisthenes of Olynthus

Calpurnii Pisones

Calvinists and Thomas Jefferson

Canon (Epicurus)

canon of philosophical schools

Capece, Scipione

cardiocentrism

Carmina (Horace)

Carneades

Carneiscus

Carpe Diem (Horace)

Casanova, Angelo

Cassius

Catullus

causes

Cavallo, Guglielmo

Villa of the Papyri and

Cave Exits (Blumenberg)

Cavendish, Charles

Cavendish, Margaret

celestial bodies, divinity of

See also

universe

Celsus

Cerebri anatome (Willis)

chance, concept of

Chandler, Clive

Characters (Theophrastus)

Charleton, Walter

on atoms

on the soul

Chazet, René

Chilton, W.

Chion of Heraclea

Christianity and Epicureanism

Ambrose

atomism and

chance, concept of

Dionysius of Alexandria

Gregory of Nyssa

heresies of

Jerome

Lactantius

on life after death

New Testament and Epicureanism

Nietzsche on

Origen on

paganism, charges of

Paul, the apostle

Rufinus

Chrysippus

Cicero

criticism of Epicureanism

and Epicurus, opinions of

on ethics

on feelings

on friendship

and the gods

and humanists

and Lucretius

on the mind

on Philodemus of Gadara

on physics

on politics

and Roman Epicureans

on the shape of the universe

Thomas Jefferson and

in Victorian England

See also

Torquatus

Cichorius, Conrad

Clay, Diskin

Cleanthes

Clement of Alexandria

Cleomedes

clinamen

Derrida on

Serres on

See also

swerve, atomic

clouds

Clucas, Stephen

cognitive therapy

Collection of Philosophers (Philodemus)

Colotes of Lampsacus

citing of Epicurean works

Democritus and

language investigations of

Plutarch’s case studies on

and poetics

in refuting others

See also

Adversus Colotem (Plutarch)

Commentary on the Mishnah (Maimonides)

common perceptions

Common Sense of Sidgwick

Comparatio Cimonis et Luculli (Plutarch)

Comparetti, Domenico

Concolino Mancini, Bianca

concrete concept of value

connectionists

contestation in sense perception

Continuation des pensées diverses (Bayle)

Contra Celsum (Origen)

contract

social

conventionalist stage of language

corpuscular physics

Corvinus, Matthias (King of Hungary)

Cosimo de Medici

cosmological traditions

cosmology

motions in the universe

place of the gods

of the Stoics

cosmopolitanism

cosmos

See

universe

Costabile, Felice

Cosway, Maria

courage

Coward, William

Cradle Argument on pleasure and pain

objections to

Crates of Mallos

Cratylus (Plato)

criteria

Hellenistic use of term

sense perception

criteria for truth, Epicurus’s

feelings of pleasure or pain

preconceptions

Croesus

Crönert, Wilhelm

Cudworth, Ralph

Cyrenaics

criticism of Epicurean hedonism

friendships of

hedonism of

in Horace

De amicitia (Cicero)

De amore prolis (Plutarch)

De anima brutorum (Willis)

De appetitu et affectibus animae (Gassendi)

De beneficiis (Seneca)

De cive (Hobbes)

De cohibenda ira (Plutarch)

De Deo (Raphson)

De diis (Philodemus)

De finibus bonorum et malorum (Cicero)

atomism in

egoism in

on friendship

Lucretius in

pleasure in

in Victorian England

De ira dei (Lactantius)

De Lacy, Estelle Allen

De Lacy, Phillip Howard

De latenter vivendo (Plutarch)

De legibus (Cicero)

de Marolles, Michel

De motu, loco et tempore (Hobbes)

De motu cordis (Harvey)

De natura deorum (Cicero)

De officiis (Cicero)

De otio (Seneca)

De Petra, G.

De pietate (Philodemus)

De Pythiae oraculis (Plutarch)

De re publica (Cicero)

De rerum natura (Lucretius)

annotation of

Athenian Plague in

atomism

atoms, used metaphorically in

contemporary readership of

death in

desire in

French Enlightenment and

and humanists of the Renaissance

on language

poetic form of

politics in

and postmodern Epicurus

religion in

Serres on

structure of

on swerve, atomic

Vergil and

De sera numinis vindicta (Plutarch)

De signis (Philodemus)

De Simone, Antonio

De summo bono (Valla)

De superstitione (Plutarch)

De vita beata (Seneca)

De voluptate (Valla)

death

badness of

fear of

fear of, lack of

implications of

life after

meaning of

objections to Epicurean beliefs about

Seneca on

value of, Epicurean reasoning about

death penalty

Del Mastro, Gianluca

Delattre, Daniel

deliberative rhetoric

Demetrius Laco

and the doctrine of the Garden

language investigations of

and poetics

theology

democratic man

Democritus

atomic theory of

and Colotes

and Marx

and Nietzsche

on sense perception

soul atoms of

demonstrations and proofs

Demosthenes, C. Julius

deprivation argument about death

Derrida, Jacques

on atomism

on gods

Descartes, René

religion of

desires

classification of

criticism of Epicurean hedonism

Horace on

for life

psychic distress of

vices and passions

Deutsches Archäologisches Institute

development, human

dependent on oneself

DeWitt, Norman

Dhanani, Alnoor

d’Holbach, Paul Thiry

Diderot, Denis

on Epicureans and Stoics

Diels, Hermann

dikaion

Dillon, Sheila

Diogenes Laertius

on hedonism of Epicurus

and humanists of the Renaissance

on poetry

on politics

on religion

on rhetoric

self-evident observations

traditional education and

and truth, criteria of

and writings of Epicurus

Diogenes of Oenoanda

cosmology and

criticism of Epicureanism

cultural context of

Epicurean texts and

on fear

fragments and recent discoveries

on hedonism

illness of

language investigations of

maxims inscribed by

methodology and interpretation

motivation of

pleasures

psychic pain of

sense perceptions

stones, texts, and editions

on the virtues

wealth and

Diogenes of Seleucia

Diogenianus

Dionysius of Alexandria

Dionysius of Lamptre

Dionysius Thrax

Discours anatomiques (Lamy)

disloyalty in friendship

dissident Epicureans

d’Ivernois, Francis

Divinae Institutiones (Lactantius)

divine intervention, rejection of

divine providence

See

providence

divinity of celestial bodies

Dobbs, B. J. T.

Donini, Pierluigi

Dorandi, Tiziano

“down” in the universe

dreams

Duchesneau, François

early modern Epicureanism

and ancient Epicureanism, compared

cardiocentrism

ethics, happiness and self-preservation

the heart in

justice, utility and contract

mechanistic psychology of

political theory of Gassendi

self-preservation

society and human nature

utility vs. sovereignty

earthquakes

Ecclesiastes

eclipses

Eclogues (Vergil)

Edelstein, Dan

egoism and friendship

egoistic hedonism

See also

hedonism

Egyptians

eidola

sense perception and

eighteenth century Epicureanism

See also

materialism

Elazar ben Arakh (Rabbi)

Elements of Law Natural and Politic (Hobbes)

eliminativism

Elisha ben Abuya

Empedoclean metaphor

Empedocles

empiricism

empty space

See

void

enargeia

Ennius

entropy

Ephrem

epibolê

Epictetus

Epicure, definitions of

Epicureanism

blessings of

community practices of

extensionalist language of

ideological uniformity of

negative associations with

propositions of

study of, benefits from

women, as students of

Epicureans

genuine vs. dissident

golden age of

in politics

in priestly offices

rhetoric of

Epicurus

as an empiricist

deathbed of

egoism of

epistemology of

importance of

in Judaism

leaders, contempt for

as object of veneration

on pain

personality of

reductionist view of atomism

as tree trunk

will of

epideictic rhetoric

epigrams of Philodemus

epilogismos

epistemology

criteria of

criticism of by Plutarch

and ethics

scientific method

Epistle to Herodotus (Epicurus)

See also

Letter to Herodotus (Epicurus)

and language

Epistle to Menoeceus (Epicurus)

Epistle to Pythocles (Epicurus)

See

Letter to Pythocles (Epicurus)

Epistles (Horace)

Epistulae Morales (Seneca)

Erler, Michael

erotic desire

Esposito, Dominico

Eternal Epicurus of Nietzsche

Ethica Comparetti (Philodemus)

ethical hedonism

See also

hedonism

ethics

criticism of by Cicero

criticism of by Plutarch

and epistemology

and fear of death

of Horace and Vergil

and humanists of the Renaissance

Marx on

and modern Epicureanism

and moral sense

physics and

Seneca on

Serres on

and theology

eudaimonia

Horace and Vergil and

eudemonism

Eudoxus

eusebeia

Eusebius

euthanasia

Evans, Matthew

Evelyn, John

extensionalism

fear

and cosmology

of death

desires related to

and meteorology

psychic distress of

of torture in the afterlife

feelings

and beliefs

Stoics’ classifications of

See also

pain, feelings of

Ficino, Marsilio

fine body of the soul

first imprints

flat disc shape of earth

flattery

focusing of the mind

Fonzio, Bartolomeo

forensic rhetoric

Formey, J. H. S.

Foucault, Michel

Fowler, Don

Frachetta, Girolamo

Franceschi, Raffaelle

frank criticism

Franklin, Benjamin

Frede, Dorothea

free will

freedom of pleasures

French Enlightenment

Epicureanism in

friendship

in antiquity

Cicero on

criticism of Epicureanism

Derrida on

disloyalty in

egoist motives for

goals of

and hedonism

intrinsic good of

as pact for mutual love

Philodemus

pleasures of

for safety and protection

as self-regarding

Seneca on

of Stoics

writings on

Gaines, Robert

Gaius Memmius

Gale, Monica R.

Gallavotti, Carlo

Garden of Epicurus in Athens

decline of

founding of

friendship within

organization and common life of

succession in

Gassendi, Pierre

animal spirits of

atomism of

Descartes, criticism of

ethics, happiness and self-preservation in

the heart in

and Hobbes, friendship with

justice, utility and contract

and modern Epicureanism

naturalism and conventionalism

nature, law of

political theory of, innovations in

politics for

psychology in

society and human nature

utilitarianism

utility vs. sovereignty

writings by

Gastronomie, La (Berchoux)

gastronomy

Gaultier, Abraham

Gay Science, The (Nietzsche)

Georgics (Vergil)

Georgos (Menander)

Germany, Epicurus in

Hegel

Marx

Nietzsche

Ghislieri, Michele

Giancotti, Francesco

Gigandet, Alain

Gigante, Marcello

on Philodemus

writings of

Glidden, David

Glisson, Francis

gods

benefits from

as causes of phenomena

Cicero on

Derrida on

existence of

friendship between

Hegel on

human shape of

inactivity of

to know

language for analysis of

Marx on

nature of

need for humans for

Nietzsche on

perception of

Plutarch on

powers of

Seneca on

simulacra from

voice and language of

Goldin, Judah

Goldschmidt, Victor

Gorgias (Plato)

on rhetoric

Gospel of Thomas

gourmand

gravity, atomic theory and

“greatest happiness principle”

Greek language, superiority of

Greenblatt, Stephen

Gregory Nazianzen

Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory Thaumaturgus

grief

over others’ deaths

Seneca on

Griffin, Mariam

Grotius, Hugo

Guerra, Tepedino

Guide of the Perplexed (Maimonides)

atomic physics in

creation theories

deity in

prophecy in

on providence

on the universe, nature of

“guides” of the Garden

Guidobaldi, Maria Paola

Gutenberg

Hadrian

Halevi, Yehudah

Hall, Alan

Hammerstaedt, Jürgen

Hankins, James

Hannah, Jack

happiness

criticism of by Plutarch

criticism of Epicureanism

and the gods

and incorrect ideas about death

successful achievement of

in Victorian England

See also

pleasure, feelings of

Harvey, William

health, pleasure of

criticism of Epicurean hedonism

heart in early modern Epicureanism

heavenly airs

Heberdey, Rudolf

hēdonē

Serres on

hedonism

calculus of

criticism of

desires, classification of

egoistic

elaboration and defense of

and friendship

humanist opinions on

and modern Epicureanism

pleasure as the moral end

in utilitarianism

virtues, status of

Hegel, G. W. F.

on atomism

on gods

Helmbold, William Clark

helping element

Helvétius, Claude

Hemmerdinger, B.

Heraclitus

Herculaneum and papyri of

library of

Vergil and

Villa of the Papyri

Hermarchus

on killing

language investigations of

Seneca and

successor of Epicurus

utility vs. sovereignty

Hesiod

Hierocles

Hilary of Poitiers

History of Philosophy (Brucker)

History of the Academic Philosophers (Philodemus)

Hobbes, Thomas

cognitive powers in

Descartes, criticism of

ethics, happiness and self-preservation in

and Gassendi, friendship with

the heart in

justice, utility and contract

and modern Epicureanism

motive powers in

society and human nature

utility vs. sovereignty

writings by

Hoffman, George

Homer

“honeyed cup” simile

Horace

on amor

and death, fear of

education of

plain living in

pleasure in

on the Stoics

horses, motion of

Houston, G. W.

Hubbard, Margaret

human rights, emergence of

humanist dissemination of Epicureanism

censorship and persecution

Epicureanism without Epicureans

Lucretian language

printing of texts

recovery and dissemination

the Renaissance context

scholarly reading practices

Hume, David

Hutcheson, Francis

Hutchinson, G. O.

Hutchinson, Lucy

hylozoist

hypolepsis

hypothesis and phenomena, consistency with

ibn Daud, Abraham

ibn Ezra, Abraham

ibn Tibbon, Samuel

Idomeneus

Iliad (Homer)

immortality of the soul

Immortality of the Soul, The (More)

impiety

In Pisonem (Cicero)

“inconceivably” large

incorruptibility of the divine

increasing constitution

Indelli, Giovanni

inference from the phenomena

inferences

as demonstrations

sign

infinity

classes of

of worlds

Intensionalism

Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, An (Bentham)

intuition about death

intuitionism

investigation into the facts

Invitation to Piso (Philodemus)

Inwood, Brad

Ioppolo, Anna M.

Irenaeus

Isidore of Seville

isonomia

Italy

Philodemus of Gadara in

the Renaissance in

Janko, Richard

Jefferson, Thomas

and Epicurus

reason and

religion of

Jerome

Jerusalem Talmud

Jesus and Socrates Compared (Priestley)

Jesus Christ

Thomas Jefferson on

Journey to Brundisium (Horace)

Jovinian

Judaism

See also

Rabbinic literature and Epicureanism

Julius Caesar

justice

and friendship

and modern Epicureanism

preconceptions of

Seneca on

usefulness of

Justin Martyr

Kalām beliefs

Kalinka, Ernst

Kant, Immanuel

katastematic pleasure

bodily pleasure

criticism of Epicurean hedonism

nature of

and poetry

psychic pleasures

and virtue

kathēgemones

Katsnelson, Berel

kenodoxia

Key Doctrines (Epicurus)

Diogenes of Oenoanda and

on fear

the gods

politics

Seneca and

killing, wrongness of

in Hermarchus

kinetic pleasure

bodily pleasure

criticism of Epicurean hedonism

nature of

and poetry

psychic pleasures

Konstan, David

Korach

Kors, Alan

kritikoi

La Mettrie, Julien Offray de

la politesse gourmande

La Reynière, Grimod de

Labendz, Jenny

Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de

Lactantius

on Epicurus

Lamprias catalogue

Lampsacus, school founded by Epicurus in

Lamy, Guillaume

Lange, Friedrich Albert

language

Colotes, contributions of

Demetrius Laco, contributions of

Diogenes of Oenoanda, contributions of

and errors of communication

Hermarchus, contributions of

linguistic methodology of Epicurus

Lucretius’ perspective

meaning, analysis of

Metrodorus, contributions of

nameless things

origin of

orthodoxy and innovations in

Philodemus of Gadara, contributions of

poetry

Polystratus, contributions of

and reality, relationship with

Latour, Bruno

Laws of Repentance (Maimonides)

Layton, Henry

Le Clerc, Jean

L’École des Gourmands (Chazet)

Lectures on the History of Philosophy (Hegel)

legacy, deceased person’s

Legitimacy of the Modern Age (Blumenberg)

Lehem Mishneh

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

and Epicureanism, criticisms of

Leto, Pomponio

Letter sur les aveugles (Diderot)

Letter to Antipater (Diogenes)

Letter to Herodotus (Epicurus)

atomism

cosmology

criteria of truth

language

Letter to Mother (Epicurus)

Letter to Pythocles (Epicurus)

cosmology and meteorology

divine nature in

Letter to Pythocles (Lucretius)

Letter to the Pisos (Horace)

Letters to Serena (Toland)

Leviathan (Hobbes)

L’Histoire naturelle de lâme (La Mettrie)

L’Homme machine (La Mettrie)

L’Homme-plante (La Mettrie)

libera voluntas

liberal arts

Lieberman, S.

life after death

Christianity on

fear of torture in

Life of Epicurus (Diogenes Laertius)

Life of Philonides

lightning

Likutei Mohoran (Nachman)

limit

atomism and

death as

infinity and

of pleasure

Lippold, Georg

literary critics, Epicureans as

Live in Obscurity (Plutarch)

Lives of Eminent Philosophers (Diogenes Laertius)

Lives (Plutarch)

Livy

Locke, John

logos

Lolordo, Antonio

Long, A. A.

Longo Auricchio, Francesca

Lorenz, Thuri

Lucian

Lucilius

Seneca and

Lucretius

on action

and atomic theory

cosmology and

development, human

on dreams

early Christianity and

fear of death

hedonism

humanists and

on language

meteorology and

on the mind

on pleasure and pain

and poetics

on poetry

and rhetoric

and scientific method

on sense perceptions

Serres on

on the soul and body

on theology

Lucullus

Lucullus (Cicero)

Lurianic kabbala

Luther, Martin

luxuries and pleasure

Lysias of Samos

Lysis (Plato)

Machiavelli

Mackey, Jacob

Macrobius

Maecenas

Maimonides

on the Apiqoros

on Aristotle

atomism of

Malpaghino, Giovanni

Mandeville, Bernard

Mangoni, Cecilia

Manilius, Marcus

Manuel des Amphitryons (La Reynière)

many worlds of Epicurus

Marchetti, Alessandro

Marcus, Hannah

Marcus Aurelius

Mark, Zvi

Markschies, Christoph

Marullo, Michele Tarcaniota

Marx, Karl

on atomism

on ethics

on Hegel

on swerve, atomic

Masi, Francesca

materialism

atoms, properties of

the eighteenth century

Epicureanism and

and modern Epicureanism

on souls

See also

atomism

mathematical entities

matter vs. void

Mattusch, Carol

Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de

mechanistic psychology of modern Epicureanism

meditative reading

Memmius, C.

Memoirs (Philodemus)

Memorabilia of Socrates (Xenophon)

memories

pleasure of

and preconceptions

“men” of the Garden

Menander

Meno (Plato)

Menoeceus

Mersenne, Marin

meteorology

Methods of Ethics, The (Sidgwick)

Metrodorus

language investigations of

on pleasure

and poetics

Seneca and

on the wise

Mill, John Stuart

egoistic hedonism

on pain, absence of

on pleasure

Miller, Mary Ashburn

mind

of animals

and belief

criticism of Epicurean hedonism

development of

and feelings

focus of

and hedonism

nature of

philosophical preparation of

rational and non-rational functions of

and soul and body

and the swerve, atomic

minimal parts of atoms

Mishnah, Apiqoros in

Mishneh Torah (Maimonides)

Mitsis, Phillip

modern Epicureanism

and materialism

and pleasure

molecule of Diderot

Molière

Mommsen, Theodor

monads of Leibniz

Montaigne

moon, light of

moral responsibility

See

voluntary action and responsibility

moral sense of Thomas Jefferson

Moralia (Plutarch)

morality

and the swerve, atomic

More, Henry

mortalists

mortality

motion

of animals

of atoms

by living beings

in the universe

Müller, Reimar

multiple-correspondence simile

multiple explanations

in cosmology

in meteorology

of swerve, atomic

in theology

murder, wrongness of

Muscettola, Adamo

“My Chances/Mes Chances: A Rendezvous with Some Epicurean Stereophonies” (Derrida)

Myth of Er

Naas, Michael

Nachman of Breslov (Rabbi)

names, origin of

Naples, Epicureans in

natural desires

“natural history of man”

See

materialism

Natural History of Revolution (Miller)

natural law in Epicureanism

Naturales Quaestiones (Seneca)

naturalism and conventionalism

naturalism and hedonism

Nausiphanes of Teos

necessary desires

necessity, non-Epicurean concept of

Needham, John Turberville

Newton, Isaac

Nicasicrates

Niccoli, Niccolò

Nicholas V (Pope)

Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)

Nietzsche, Friedrich

on Christianity and Epicureanism

Nilus

Nisbet, Robert G. M.

non-attestation in sense perception

non-contestation in sense perception

non-necessary desires

Non posse (Plutarch)

normative hedonism

See also

hedonism

“not strictly infinite”

Numenius

Numicius

Obbink, Dirk

O’Connor, David

Octavius, Marcus

Odes (Horace)

Oenomaus of Gadara

O’Keefe, Timothy

old age

oligarchic man

omega, in mathematics

On Anger (Philodemus)

On Arrogance (Philodemus)

On Characters and Ways of Life (Philodemus)

On Choices and Avoidance (Philodemus)

On Conversation (Philodemus)

On Death (Philodemus)

On Economy (Philodemus)

On Envy (Basil)

On Epicurus (Philodemus)

On Flattery (Philodemus)

On Frank Criticism (Philodemus)

On Frankness (Philodemus)

On Gratitude (Philodemus)

On Greed (Philodemus)

On Kingship (Epicurus)

On Methods of Inference (Philodemus)

On Music (Philodemus)

On Nature (Dionysius)

On Nature (Empedocles)

On Nature (Epicurus)

on atheists

existing books of

moral responsibility in

On Philosophy (Polyaenus)

On Piety (Philodemus)

On Poems (Metrodorus)

On Poems (Philodemus)

poetry, qualities of

On Property Management (Philodemus)

On Providence (Philodemus)

On Relieving Arrogance (Aristo of Ceos)

On Rhetoric (Philodemus)

art, rhetoric as

dedication to

on poetry

On Sanctity (Epicurus)

On Signs and Inferences (Philodemus)

On Slander (Philodemus)

On the End (Epicurus)

On the Gods (Philodemus)

On the Good King According to Homer (Philodemus)

On the Lifestyle of the Gods (Philodemus)

On the Moral End (Epicurus)

On the Nature of Things (Lucretius)

On the Opinions of the Philosophers (Plutarch)

On the Stoics (Philodemus)

On the Use of Poems (Zeno of Sidon)

On the Vices Similar to Flattery (Philodemus)

On Vices and Their Opposing Virtues (Philodemus)

On Wealth (Philodemus)

“one thought too many”

O’Neil, Edward N.

Opera omnia (Gassendi)

Opramoas of Rhodiapolis

oracular prophecy

Orator (Cicero)

Ordering of the Philosophers (Philodemus)

Origen

Platonism of

original constitution

Orpheus, myth of

Osler, Margaret

otium

ouk antimartyrēsis

Ovid

Paganini, Gianni

Pagano, Mario

paideia

pain, feelings of

choices, for and against

criteria for truth, Epicurus’s

criticism of Epicurean hedonism

evil of

fear of

and hedonism

and life’s goal

management of

mind’s contributions to

mind’s protection against

Seneca on

painlessness

Cicero on

criticism of Epicurean hedonism

as pleasure

Paleario, Aonio

Pandermalis, Dimitrios

panegyric

Pansa Caetronianus, Gaius Vibius

Parmenides

past, view of

pathē

Patristic philosophy

Patro

Paul, the apostle

penalties, fear of

Pensées philosophiques (Diderot)

Peri Parresias (Philodemus)

Peri physeōs (Epicurus)

See also

On Nature (Epicurus)

personal security

Petrarch

Phaedo (Plato)

Phaedrus

Phaedrus (Plato)

Phenomena (Aratus of Soli)

Phenomenology of Spirit, The (Hegel)

Philebus (Plato)

philia

Philip of Thessalonika

Philippson, Robert

Philippus, Lucius Marcius

Philo of Alexandria

Philo of Larissa

Philocalia (Origen)

Philodemus of Gadara

analysis of nature

in Athens

Cicero on

death of

desires, classification of

and dissident Epicureans

early life and education of

early treatises

friendship

and the gods

on hedonism

influence of

in Italy

language investigations of

literary criticism of

mature thoughts of

on mind

modern discoveries from

on pain

physical pleasures and

Piso, relationship with

poems of

and poetics

on politics

theology

on wealth

writings of

and Zeno of Sidon

philoi

Philonides of Laodicea

Philosophiae Epicuri syntagma (Gassendi)

Philosophical Dissertation on Death, A (Radicati)

philosophy

insights and rules of

life practices of

Plutarch’s opinion of

study of

as therapy of a sick soul

physical pleasures

Physics (Aristotle)

Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charletoniana (Charleton)

Piaggio’s machine

Pintard, René

Piso Caesoninus, Lucius Calpurnius

Cicero on

and the Villa of the papyri

Pius, Albertus

Pius II (Pope)

place of the gods

placidity

Plato

Cicero’s opinion of

on desires

friendships of

on hedonism

Origen and

Patristic philosophy and

philosopher kings of

Plutarch and

on politics

Renaissance interest in

on rhetoric

soul, immortality of

Thomas Jefferson on

Platonic Theology (Ficino)

“Plato’s Pharmacy” (Derrida)

pleasure, feelings of

availability of

body’s contributions to

choices, for and against

Cicero on

criteria for truth, Epicurus’s

criticism of Epicurean hedonism

and discomfort, lack of

from food, for the French

in French thought

in friendships

health

and length of life

and life’s goal

and memories

mind’s contributions to

and modern Epicureanism

as the moral end

Plutarch on

and politics

in rhetoric

Seneca on

utilitarianism

and virtue

See also

hedonism

Plotina, Pompeia

Plotinus

Plutarch

anti-politics of Epicurus

as author, intentions of

background of

case studies of

continuity in

criticism of Epicureanism

Epicurean doctrine in

and Epicurus, opinions of

epilogismos of

on the gods

on language

method of

persona in writings of

philosophy, opinion of

and Plato

on pleasure

and poetry

on rhetoric

sense perceptions

as source of Epicurean thought

on weight of atoms

writings of

poetics

Colotes

Demetrius Laco

Epicurus

harmful elements of

literary critics, Epicureans as

Lucretius

Metrodorus

Philodemus of Gadara

Zeno of Sidon

poetry

as deliberate falsehood

origin of

Poggio Bracciolini

points, mathematical

polemical laughter, against politicians

Polignac, Melchior de

political rhetoric

politicians

and pleasure

ridiculing of by Epicurus

successful, historically

use of by Epicurus

politics and society

the basics

blessings of Epicurean life

Cicero on

Epicureans in politics

exceptions and qualifications

follies of a political career

good reputation in

legislation, respect for

a more nuanced perspective

past, view of

Plutarch on

the sage at royal court

and security, pursuit of

Seneca and

usefulness of

Politics of Friendship, The (Derrida)

Polyaenus

Polystratus

Pomponazzi, Pietro

Pontifex, L. Calpurnius Piso

Posidonius

postmodern Epicurus

defined

Hans Blumenberg

Jacques Derrida

Michel Serres

poverty

Praechter, Karl

preconceptions

and belief

formation of

of justice

language of

truth of

See also

prolepseis

premature death, fear of

presentist hedonism

Priestley, Joseph

priests in Epicureanism

primary qualities of atomism

Prime Mover of Aristotle

Principes philosophiques sur la matière et al mouvement (Diderot)

principle of utility

prison, politics as

Proclus

Prodicus

profligacy, denouncing

prolepsis

of the gods

of the good poet

See also

preconceptions

proofs and demonstrations

prophecy

oracular

propositions of Epicureanism

proskynesis

Protarchus of Bargylia

providence

prudence

psychic pains

psychological hedonism

See also

hedonism

psychology

belief

criticism of by Plutarch

mechanistic

motivation

self-development

sense perception

soul, mind and body

Puglia, Enzo

Pulcher, Appius Claudius

punishment and virtue

Pyrrhus

Pythian Nome

quadrilemma of divine powers

Quaestiones convivales (Plutarch)

qualifying philosophy

Quintilian

Rabbeinu Yonah

Rabbinic literature and Epicureanism

Amoraitic materials

Apiqoros in

on Korach

Maimonides

Nachman of Breslov (Rabbi)

physical theories of Epicurus in

Tannaitic writings

Radicati, Alberto

rain, causes of

rainbow, causes of

Ranocchia, Graziano

Raphson, Joseph

rationalism and hedonism

reason

to control human nature

and soul

and Thomas Jefferson

use of to counteract fear

as way to know the gods

Reasons of Christian Religion, The (Baxter)

Recognitiones (Rufinus)

reductionism

Reid, Thomas

religion

in De rerum natura (Lucretius)

of Descartes

of Thomas Jefferson

in Vergil

See also

Christianity and Epicureanism

Renaissance scholars and Epicureanism

Lucretius’ De rerum natura

replenishment and pleasure

Republic (Plato)

Thomas Jefferson on

virtue in

resistance and atomism

responsibility

See

voluntary action and responsibility

restorative pleasures

resurrection

in Christianity

in Epicureanism

in Rabbinic literature

Rêve de d’Alembert (Diderot)

Revolution, French

Rey, Roselyne

rhetoric

avoidance of

early views of

Epicurean

Metrodorus writings on

Philodemus writings on

training in

types of

written communication

Zeno of Sidon on

rhetorical puns

risk and pleasure

Rist, John

Rochoux, Jean André

Roger, Jacques

Roman Inquisition

romantic love

Romeo, Constantina

Roskam, Geert

Ruffo, Fabrizio

Rufinus

Saad, Mariana

sage at royal court

Sallust

Sarasin, Jean-François

Satires (Horace)

Saturninus, Lucius Herennius

Sauron, Gilles

Scarre, Geoffrey

Scatozza, Höricht

Schiesaro, Alessandro

Schmid, W.

Schmidt, Johan Werner

Schofield, M.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

scientific method

Second Thoughts on Human Soul (Coward)

secondary qualities of atomism

Sedley, David

on Lucretius

Seelenheilung

self-development

difference from atomic nature

first imprints

responsibility from oneself

training

self-evident ideas

gods, existence of

pleasure as arbiter of moral truth

self-preparation for sense perception

self-preservation

ethics, happiness and

self-regarding nature of friendship

self-sufficiency

seminal fluid

the soul and

Seneca

on death

on Epicurean thought

on friendship

human nature and the tactics of the therapist

knowledge, extent and provenance of

leisure and contemplation

literary ambitions of

maxims and meditation

on pain

physics and theology

on politics

and theology

Thomas Jefferson and

virtue and pleasure

sense perception

and atomism

and belief

explanations of

and knowledge, in French thought

Marx on

scientific method and

and the self-evident

self-preparation for

and the soul

Thomas Jefferson and

truth of

Sententiae Vaticanae

See

Vatican Sayings (Epicurus)

sentience

of atoms

principle of good and bad and

Serenus, Annaeus

Serres, Michel

swerve, atomic

Sextus Empiricus

and atomism

and epistemology

and hedonism

on language

poetry and

and theology

Sextus Pompeius

sexual intercourse

Shimon ben Zemach Duran (Rabbi)

Shipwreck with Spectator: Paradigm of a Metaphor for Existence (Blumenberg)

Sider, David

Sidgwick, Henry

egoistic hedonism

on John Stuart Mill

on pain, absence of

on pleasure

sight

focused and unfocused

of moving objects

nature of

and the soul

sign inferences

silence of history on pleasure motivation

simple fare, doctrine of

simulacra

Siro

Sisyphus

Smith, Martin

on Diogenes fragments

Snyder, H. Gregory

Snyder, Jane McIntosh

social contract

social metaphor

Socrates

See also

Plato

song and the void

sophistic rhetoric

Sosylos

soul

after death

and body, relationship to

existence of

immortality of

language regarding, errors of

materialism and

nature of

Plato on

pleasures and pains of

Stoics on

soul atoms

“soul of the soul” of Lucretius

sovereignty vs. utility

Speroni, Sperone

spherical shape of cosmos

Spinelli, Emidio

Spinoza, Baruch

spontaneous generation

stars

divinity of the

earthly vapors and

start

static pleasure

Stoics

apokatastasis of

Cicero on

cosmology of

death, fear of

early Christianity and

on feelings and emotions

friendships of

Horace on

modern Christianity and

on pleasure

Seneca on

on the soul

Thomas Jefferson and

Stowers, Stanley K.

Strato of Lampsacus

Stratonism

suicide

sun

light of

motion of

sunbeam motion

superstition

swerve, atomic

Cicero on

Derrida on

Diogenes of Oenoanda on

Hegel on

Marx on

multiple explanations of

proof of existence of

Serres on

voluntary action and responsibility

symmetry argument against fearing death

sympheron

Syndikus, H. P.

synthēkē

Système de la nature (d’Holbach)

Systéme d’Epicure (La Mettrie)

systrophē

Taking Chances: Derrida, Psychoanalysis, and Literature (Smith and Kerrigan)

Tannaitic literature

tarachē

technai

temperance

Tepedino Guerra, Adele

Terror of the Natural Right, The (Edelstein)

Tertullian

Tescari, Onorato

tetrapharmakos of Epicurus

criticism of Epicurean hedonism

psychic pain of

thanatology

See

death

Theaetetus (Plato)

thematic puns

theodicy

Theodoridas of Lindos

theology

ethics and

Theophrastus

Theophrastus Redivivus

Thomson’s Lamp

“thrust” of attention

Thucydides

thunder

Timaeus (Plato)

Timagoras

Timasagoras

time

Epicurean view of

Marx on

observable events in relation to

Timocrates

on rhetoric

Toland, John

Torquatus, Cicero’s Epicurean spokesman

on egoism

on ethics

on friendship

on happiness

and the hedonist calculus

on justice

on pleasure and pain

Tosefta

touch, sense of

Traité de la Vie Élégante (Balzac)

Traversari, Ambrogio

Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases (Mandeville)

Treatise on the Memory of Epicurus and Others (Philodemus)

tree trunk, description of Epicurus as

True Discourse (Celsus)

trust, in friendships

truth

See

epistemology

Tsouna, Voula

Tusculan Disputations (Cicero)

universalistic hedonism

See also

hedonism

universe

infinite nature of

Marx on

motion in

shape of

unnatural desires

unnecessary desires

Usener, Hermann

and the gods

utilitarianism

egoistic hedonism

hedonism, psychological vs. normative

pleasure and absence of pain

principles and goals of

Utilitarianism (Mill)

utility

and sovereignty

Valgius

Valla, Lorenzo

value, concept of

van Giffen, Hubert

Varius Rufus, Lucius

Varro

Vatican Sayings (Epicurus)

vector of atomic movement

Velleius

Vergil

on amor

education of

religion in

Victorian England

See also

utilitarianism

Villa of the Papyri

construction of

design of

Greek library of

owner of

sculptures of

Virgil

See

Vergil

virtue

and friendship

Horace on

humanist view of

and pleasure

Seneca on

Virtus (Horace)

vision

See

sight

Vita Pyrrhonis (Plutarch)

void

argument for existence of

atomism and

and cosmology

geometrical description of

Hegel on

in Rabbinic literature

resistance of concept of

volition

voluntary action and responsibility

swerve, atomic

swerve, atomic, modern views on

voluntas

Warren, James

Waszink, J. H.

wealth

and pleasure

weather, explanations for

weight and atomism

well-being

criticism of Epicurean hedonism

Willis, Thomas

Wilson, Catherine

Wojcik, Maria Rita

women, as students of Epicureanism

Woolf, Raphael

Works on the Records of Epicurus and Some Others (Philodemus)

World as Will and Representation, The (Schopenhauer)

Xenophon

Yirmiyah ben Elazar (Rabbi)

Yisrael ben Eliezer (Rabbi)

Zeller, Eduard

Zeno of Sidon

lectures of

library in the Villa of the Papyri

and Philodemus of Gadara, influence on

physical pleasures and

and poetics

and rhetoric

Zeno’s paradox

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