📄️ Diogenes Laertius' Biography of Epicurus
Introduction
📄️ Lucretius - On The Nature of Things
Preface
📄️ Cicero: On Ends
Source: The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations Of M. T. Cicero
📄️ The Inscription of Diogenes of Oinoanda
Source: The best source for the full remaining text of the inscription as translated by WIlliam Ferguson Smith is this page by Harold Roig i Gorina. (start your review of the inscription here!))
📄️ Fragments Collected by Cyril Bailey
Introduction
📄️ Fragments Collected By Hermann Usener
This collection of texts attributed to Epicurus is based on the compilation prepared by Hermann Usener (1834-1905) and published in 1887. The English translations in this edition were originally prepared by Erik Anderson in 2005 and published on his now-defunct website Epicurus.info, which now exists at Epicurism.info. Some material also comes from Attalus.org
📄️ Commentaries
Two modern works bear special mention:
📄️ Internet Resources
Learn about Epicurean philosophy by reading and discussing it with friends of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com*.
📄️ Survey of Texts
Epicurus was born in Samos, Greece in 341 BC, and died in Athens in 270 BC. This places the formation of the school shortly after the time of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and at about the same time as the founding of the Stoic school. All of this occurred more than 200 years before the development of Christianity.
📄️ Lucretius Finding Aid
Lucretius - Topical Outline