Stoicism and Epicureanism: Sources and Interpretation
<b>An extensive collection of the essential writings of ancient Stoicism and Epicureanism.</b> Contains the <i>Discourses</i> and <i>Enchiridion </i> (handbook, manual) of Epictetus; Seneca's <i> On Providence, On the Shortness of Life, On the Tranquility of Mind,</i> and <i> on Anger, </i> as well as his letter on <i> The Happy Life,</i>; the <i>Meditations</i> of Marcus Aurelius; the complete extant writings of Epicurus; Lucretius' epic poem <i>On the Nature of Things</i>; and Horace's Epicurean odes alongside selections from <i>The Lives of the Eminent Philosophers</i> by Diogenes Laertius and two highly divergent interpretive essays that examine the precedents of these two main Hellenistic philosophies.<br />