Edited by Whitney J. Oates

 

PREFACE

GENERAL INTRODUCTION by Whitney J. Oates

 

THE EXTANT WRITINGS OF EPICURUS— Translated by C. Bailey

I. EPICURUS TO HERODOTUS/Analysis

II. EPICURUS TO PYTHOCLES/Analysis

III. EPICURUS TO MENOECEUS/Analysis

IV. PRINCIPAL. DOCTRINES

V. FRAGMENTS

A. Vatican Collection

B. Remains Assigned to Certain Books

C. Remains of Letters

D. Fragments from uncertain Sources

VI. THE LIFE OF EPICURUS BY DIOGENES LAERTIUS

Notes

 

LUCRETIUS: On the Nature of Things--De Rerum Natura--Translated by H.A.J.Munro

Books I-VI

 

THE DISCOURSES OF EPICTETUS— Translated by P. E. Matheson

PREFACE
    Book I.       
1.     On things in our power and things not in our power
2.     How one may be true to ones character in everything
3.     What conclusions may be drawn from the fact that God is Father of men
4.     On progress, or moral advance
5.     Against followers of the Academy
6.     On Providence
7.     On the use of variable premisses and hypothetical arguments and the like
8.     That faculties are fraught with danger for the uneducated
9.     How one may draw conclusions from the fact that we are God's kinsmen
10.  To those who have spent their energies on advancement in Rome
11.  On family affection
12.  On contentment
13.  How one may act in all things so as to please the gods
14.  That God beholds all men
15.  What philosophy professes
16.  On Providence
17.  That the processes of logic are necessary
18.  That we should not be angry at men's errors
19.  How one should behave towards tyrants
20.  How reason has the faculty of taking cognizance of itself
21.  To those who wish to be admired
22.  On primary conceptions
23.  Against Epicurus
24.  How one should contend against difficulties
25.  On the same theme
26.  What is the law of life
27.  On the ways in which impressions come to us: and the aids we must provide for ourselves to deal with them
28.  That we must not be angry with men: and concerning what things are small and what are great among men
29.  On constancy
30.  What a man should have ready to hand in the crises of life

 

BOOK II.

1.     That there is no conflict between confidence and caution

2.     On peace of mind

3.     To those who commend persons to philosophers

4.     To the man caught in adultery

5.     How a careful life is compatible with a noble spirit

6.     On what is meant by 'indifferent' things

7.     How to consult diviners

8.     What is the true nature of the good

9.     That we adopt the profession of the philosopher when we cannot fulfil that of a man

10.  How the acts appropriate to man are to be discovered from the names he bears

11.  What is the beginning of Philosophy

12.  On the art of discussion

13.  Concerning anxiety

14.  On Naso

15.  On those who cling stubbornly to their judgements

16.  That we do not practise applying our judgements about things good and evil

17.  How we must adjust our primary conceptions to particular things

18.  How we must struggle against impressions

19.  To those who take up the principles of the philosophers only to discuss them

20.  Against followers of Epicurus and of the Academy

21.  Concerning inconsistency of mind

22.  On friendship

23.  On the faculty of expression

24.  To one whom he did not think worthy

25.  How the art of reasoning is necessary

26.  What is the distinctive character of error

 

BOOK III.

1.     On adornment

2.     (a)In what matters should the man who is to make progress train himself
(b)That we neglect what is most vital

3.     What is the material with which the good man deals: and what should be the object of our training

4.     Against one who was indecorously excited in the theatre

5.     Against those who make illness an excuse for leaving the lecture-room

6.     Scattered sayings

7.     Dialogue with the Commissioner of the Free Cities, who was an Epicurean

8.     How we should train ourselves to deal with impressions

9.     To a Rhetor going up to Rome for a trial

10.  How one should bear illnesses

11.  Scattered sayings

12.  On training

13.  What a 'forlorn' condition means, and a 'forlorn' man

14.  Scattered sayings

15.  That we should approach everything with consideration

16.  That we must be cautious in our social relations

17.  Concerning Providence

18.  That we must not allow news to disturb us

19.  What is the difference between the philosopher and the uneducated man

20.  That benefit may be derived from all outward things

21.  To those who undertake the profession of teacher with a light heart

22.  On the calling of the Cynic

23.  To those who read and discourse for display

24.  That we ought not to spend our feelings on things beyond our power

25.  To those who fail to achieve what they set before them

26.  To those who fear want

 

BOOK IV.

1.     On freedom

2.     On intercourse with men

3.     What to aim at in exchange

4.     To those whose heart is set on a quiet life

5.     To those that are contentious and brutal

6.     To those who are distressed at being pitied

7.     On freedom from fear

8.     To those who hastily assume the character of Philosophers

9.     To one who was modest and has become shameless

10.  What things we should despise, and what we should deem important

11.  On cleanliness

12.  On attention

13.  To those who lightly communicate their secrets

 

FRAGMENTS

THE MANUAL OF EPICTETUS

THE MEDITATIONS OF MARCUS AURELIUS—Translated by G. Long

BOOKS I-XII

 

APPENDIX

CLEANTHES' HYMN TO ZEUS ---Translated by James Adam

AN ESSAY ON MARCUS AURELIUS, by Matthew Arnold

Subject Index to Epictetus

Subject Index to Marcus Aurelius

Glossary