General Index

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General Index

Aeschylus, 152–153, 159

Algra, Kiempe, 170, 172, 175–176, 179, 184

Amafinius, 14

ancestors

achievements of, 15, 26–30

representations of, 141

Anderson, W. S., 5, 142–143

animals

and transmigration of souls, 164–166

resemblance of Epicureans to, 45–46

Antiochus of Ascalon, 64

Aristippus, 15–16

Aristotle, 16, 18, 67, 140

Asmis, Elizabeth, viii, 1, 5, 50, 71, 75, 79, 91, 93, 99, 114, 121, 137, 174, 180–181, 183

Atticus

Epicureanism of, 18, 36, 58–60, 98, 140

Aulus Gellius, 148, 151

Auvray-Assayas, Clara, 3

Bailey, Shackleton, 59

Bakker, Frederik, 174–176

Barnes, Jonathan, 2, 169–170, 173–174, 180, 183–184

Benferhat, Yasmina, 33, 35, 39, 57, 59, 61, 64, 67, 72–73, 75, 77–78, 97, 99–100

Beretta, Marco, 175

Boissier, Gaston, 59

Boyle, Rebecca, 168

Caesar

and ambition, 72

and death, 75–81

and familiarity with Lucretius, 73–74

as threat to the Republic, 38–39, 52

education of, 73–74

calculus, See measurement

Callimachus

as model for Catullus, 92

as model for Philodemus, 92

Carneades, 16, 26, 55, 60, 62–63

Cassandra, 160–161

Cassius, 23, 31, 33, 36, 41, 56–57, 61, 69, 71, 86, 98, 144

Castner, C. J., 35, 57, 59, 65–68, 73–74, 77, 83, 99

Catiline, 75

Cato, 55, 70–71, 76–77, 82

Catullus

and criticism of patrons, 95

and friendship compared to Lucretius, 97–100

as crazed, 101–107

as hostile to Epicureanism, 88–89

as rival of Philodemus, 90–94

pessimism of, 100–101

Chrysippus, 15–16, 82

Cicero

and anti-Epicurean rhetoric, 39–44

and conversion tactics, 60–68

and criticism of Caesar, 76–80

and criticism of Piso, 33–34, 72–73, 94

and criticism of Torquatus, 30–32, 34–35

and Greek intellectual framework, 14–22

and his sources, 22–23

and Roman achievements, 26–28

and Roman virtue, 24–26

and the Garden, 28–29

as opposed to measurement, 48–53

as translator, 24

circumlocution

as rhetorical strategy, 39–42, 44, 46, 54

coniunctum

vs. eventum, 158

convivium, 94

Crassus, 26, 37, 40–42, 64

criteria

and philosophical allegiance, 54

criticism

of Epicurus, 4–8, 14, 23, 34–36, 38–42, 49–54, 67, 69–70

Dale, F. R., 74

Delattre, Daniel, 3, 16, 18, 93, 174

Demetrius Lacon, 12, 173, 176, 183–184

Democritus, 15–16, 39, 44, 173–174, 181

desire

categories of, 114–118, 126–128

Diana, 152, 158

diatribe, 6, 78, 114, 129, 132, 136, 144–145

Dicaearchus, 45, 67

dichotomy

between Greek and Roman thought as false, 3, 18

between philosohy and politics, 32, 71

Diodorus, 16

education, See paideia

Ennius

and Greek tragedy, 154

and Pyrrhus, 148–151

as presented by Lucretius, 163–167

Epictetus, viii, 26, 61–62

Epicureanism

as a threat to the Republic, 39, 47–50

universality of, 2

Epicurus

and death, 75, 111–112

and diversity of thought, 21–23

and education, 92–94

as explained by Torquatus, 15

as object of worship, 42–44, 56

house of, 64–66

universality of, 11–14, 106

eventum

and the Trojan War, 158–159

vs. coniunctum, 163

excess

of desire for life, 115

of grief, 6, 115

Fabullus, 87–90, 93, 95–96, 104

false belief, 6–7, 113, 176

Fannius, 51

fiction

of Cicero’s literary works, 23, 34

First Triumvirate, 72

founding fathers

of the Garden, 16

fourfold remedy, See tetrapharmakos

Fowler, Don, 143

frank criticism, 6, 129, 145

friendship, 20–22

and politics, 94–98

commercialization of, 49–53

Frischer, Bernard, 140

Furley, David, 170

Gale, Monica, viii, 5, 55, 128, 158

Garani, Myrto, 2

Garden, 2, 4, 7, 19–20, 28, 31, 55, 61, 63–64, 66–67, 72, 75, 78, 85, 140, 142, 144

Gilbert, Nathan, viii, 4, 55, 72, 84

Giuffrida, Pasquale, 89

gods

as vengeful, 7

not concerned with human affairs, 1, 63

Görler, Woldemar, 64

Griffin, Miriam, 2, 59, 84

Hardie, Philip, 43

Hariman, Robert, 38

Harrison, Stephen, 153

Heraclitus, 11, 17, 91, 173

Herculaneum, 19

Holmes, Brooke, 3

Horace, 5, 46, 82, 105–106, 132, 142–143

inconstantia

of Cicero according to Atticus, 69–70

innovation, 19–20, 26, 35

Iphigenia, 151–160

Jeffrey Fish, 3, 84

Kenney, 102, 131–134, 136, 141, 147, 164

kitsch

and death, 135–138

defined, 129–131

Konstan, David, 1–2, 56, 100–101

Krebs, Christopher, 74

Kulka, Thomas, 135–136

Kundera, Milan, 130, 135, 137

L. Papirius Paetus, 61

L. Saufeius, 58, 66

Laelius, 40–41, 45–46, 51

language, 65

and Lucretius, 154–161

as rhetorical device, 48

as sentimental, 134–139

complications of, 177

in Lucretius, 145–146

in Roman discourse, 24–26

Lehoux, Daryn, 3

leisure, 23, 74, 96, 123

Lloyd, Geoffrey, 184

Lucretius

and Catullus, 102–107

and Memmius, 64–65, 96–98

critical of excessive grief, 111–112, 133–137

graphic clarity of, 131–132

ludi, 148, 151, 155, 161, 165–166

Marcellus, 78, 80

Marcus Aurelius, viii, 144

marginalization

of Epicureans, 44

McConnell, 58, 61, 67, 84, 97

measurement

as threat to the Republic, 49

of pleasure and pain, 33–34, 47

Memmius, 64–65

and Catullus, 94–100

and Lucretius, 145

Menander, 12

Merlan, Philip, 138

Metrodorus of Lampsacus, viii, 13, 16, 34, 39, 127, 140

Mitsis, Phillip, 2, 20, 24, 112

Morrison, A. D., 3

mortality

of the soul, 32, 44–45, 131, 145

mos maiorum, 3, 30, 36, 39, 88

Muses, 90, 105

Nagel, Thomas, 112, 127

nature

abundance of, 116–119

and the sameness of things, 119–123

personified, 78, 111–115

otium, See leisure

P. Sextilius Rufus, 25–26, 96, 132

paideia, 37, 42

Patro, 60, 64–66

patronage, 42, 91, 94–95, 97

Perlwitz, Olaf, 57, 59, 71

Phaedrus, 17, 55, 61, 65, 70

Philodemus, viii, 1, 5–6, 13–14, 18, 20, 28, 32, 34, 39, 42, 56–57, 66, 71–72, 84–85, 87–95, 97, 99–100, 102–104, 106–107, 114–115, 118, 126–127, 137–138, 144–145

Piso

and Epicureanism, 32–35

and Philodemus, 90–92

as recipient of political advice, 98–100

attack against, 66, 87–89

attack on, 94–95

platitude, See kitsch

Plato, viii, 16, 62

pleasure

and friendship, 97

and politics, 33–35

and security, 27–29

as basis for friendship, 19–22

categories of, 115–116

poetry

and Ennius, 147–148

and Philodemus, 91–94, 105

polemics, 12, 16, 20, 22, 28, 31

politics

and philosophy, 31–34, 68, 73

Pompeii, 156

Pompey, 26, 95, 98, 161

portrayal

of Epicurus in art, 56, 140, 142

Posidonius, 82, 185

Powell, Jonathan, 24, 29, 40–42, 49

putrefaction, 6, 131–132, 137, 145

Pyrrhus, 148–150, 166

Q. Fadius Gallus, 25–26

Q. Tullius Cicero, 25, 55, 60, 62–63, 68, 74

Reinhardt, Tobias, 24, 134–135

religio, See superstition

rhetoric, 27–32, 36, 41–48, 54

Romeo, Constantina, 172, 185

Rudolph, Kelli, 174, 181

Sallust, 75, 77

Sanders, Kirk, 3, 112, 126, 137

satisfaction

of pleasure, 125

with life, 79, 111, 113

Scaevola, 42, 51, 64

Sedley, David, x, 21, 24–25, 31, 57, 99, 149, 170, 175, 179

Seneca, viii, 11, 21, 30, 33, 82, 126, 144

sense perception, 170–171, 175–185

Sharrock, Alison, 3

Shearin, W. H., 3, 58

Sider, David, 56, 66, 87–88, 90–93, 102, 105, 131, 138–139

Socrates, 16, 87, 140

sources, 1, 3–5, 21–23, 31, 37, 71, 78–79, 81–82, 117–119, 143, 169, 176, 181

Stoics, 16, 30, 42, 48, 82

Suetonius, 73, 79–80

sun

and Epicurean sources, 169–173

and heat, 8, 158, 169–172, 177–179, 182, 184

as didactic challenge, 182–183

as Epicurean shibboleth, 183–185

in Lucretius, 177–180

size of, 168–169

superstition, 13, 149, 152, 154, 175

Taormina, Daniela, 176

Taylor, Barnaby, 147, 152–153, 158, 181

tetrapharmakos, 138, 144

Thomas, Carla, 88, 127, 135

Torquatus

ancestors of, 27–30

and friendship, 50

and virtue, 24–26

as critical thinker, 20–22

inconsistency of, 30–32, 34–35

Venus, 91, 97, 106–107, 111, 128, 148

Verde, Francesco, 125, 176

virtue, 24

and pleasure, 48–51

as means for pleasure, 33

in service to the state, 37

voluptas, See pleasure

Warren, James, 5, 39, 46, 75, 80, 111–112, 126–127, 172

Williams, Bernard, ix, 73, 122, 126–127

Woolf, Raphael, 12, 36, 72, 80–81

worship

of Epicurus, 43

Xanthippe, 87, 105

Xantho, 87, 138–139

Xenophon, 17

Zeno (of Citium), 16–17, 66, 142

Zeno (of Sidon), 66, 144

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