LATIN

Epicurea

By Epicurus , Hermann Usener (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780511711077, 9781108016261
DOI
10.1017/CBO9780511711077
Google Books ID
Xv68UJ8ooxAC
Language
latin
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8007609 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
Pages
530\530
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Hermann Karl Usener (1834-1905) published his monumental Epicurea in 1887. The volume is a collection of Epicurean texts and citations from a wide range of classical authors including Arrian, Cicero, Diodorus, Euripides, Plato and Seneca. The volume includes critical texts of Epicurus' most important letters: Letter to Menoeceus, Letter to Herodotus and Letter to Pythocles, preserved by the third-century compiler Diogenes Laertius. The letters give important summaries of Epicurus' philosophy. Usener's pioneering work represented the first attempt to deal critically with the manuscript traditions behind Epicurean texts. His reconstructions of the texts included in this volume are based on a thorough understanding of the trajectories of textual transmission. Each text is supported by a detailed critical apparatus, and another apparatus records manuscript glosses and scholia. This work provided for the first time accurate and reliable texts for the critical study of Epicureanism.

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