I. Introduction

II. Epicureanism under the Republic

1. Epicureanism in the Third and Second Centuries B.C.

2. Epicureanism at the end of the Republic

III. The Augustan Age

1. Augustus and Epicureanism

2. Epicurean 'friends' of Augustus

3. The Epicureanism of Maecenas

4. The Epicureanism of Vergil

5. The Epicureanism of Vergil's friends

6. Horace's Epicureanism

7. Propertius and Tibullus

8. Epicureanism in Vitruvius

9. Medicine and Epicureanism

10. Livy and Epicureanism

11. Ovid and Epicureanism

12. Summary of Epicureanism in the Augustan Age

IV. The First Century A.D.

1. Epicureanism and Judaism, and especially Philo of Alexandria

2. Epicureanism, Christianity and the Writings of Paul

3. Petronius

4. Other Epicureans of the First Century

5. Seneca

6. Herculaneum and the villa suburbana dei papiri

7. Pap. Oxy. 215

8. Other Latin Writers and Epicureanism

A. Persius

B. Quintilian

C. Statius

D. Valerius Flaccus

E. Silius

F. Pliny the Elder

G. Codex Vossianus Q. 86

9. Concluding observations

V. The Second Century A.D.

1. Plotina

2. Tacitus

3. Plutarch

4. Juvenal

5. Hadrian

6. Some known Epicureans of the Second Century

7. Diogenianus

8. Diogenes of Oenoanda

9. Lucian

10. Writers more or less hostile to Epicureanism

A. Epictetus

B. Marcus Aurelius

C. Apuleius

D. Aulus Gellius

E. Cleonides

F. Dio of Prusa

G. Numenius

H. Aristocles

I. Sextus Empiricus

J. Atticus

K. Athenaeus

L. Aetius

11. Second Century A.D. references to Epicurus

12. Epitaphs and Epicurean sentiments

13. Epicureanism and Early Christian Writers

A. Justin

B. Athenagoras

C. Irenaeus

D. Theophilus of Antioch

E. Minucius Felix

F. Isidore (?)

14. The Talmud and Epicureanism

15. Summary

VI. The Third Century A.D.

1. Christian Writers continued

A. Tertullian

B. Hippolytus of Rome

C. Clement of Alexandria

D. Origen

E. Pseudo-Clement

F. Dionysius of Alexandria

G. Arnobius

2. References to the Epicureans which occur in other writers

A. Aelian

B. Philostratus

C. Galen

D. Diogenes Laertius

E. Longinus

F. Alexander of Aphrodisias

G. Plotinus

H. Porphyry

3. Epitaphs of the Third Century

4. Summary

VII. The Fourth Century A.D.

1. Diocletian

2. Christian Writers and Epicureanism

A. Lactantius

B. Eusebius

C. Athanasius

D. Hilary of Poitiers

E. Basil

F. Gregory of Nazianzus

G. Gregory of Nyssa

H. Eunomius

I. Ambrose

J. Pelagius

K. Augustine

L. Jerome

M. Paulinus of Nola

N. Prudentius

3. Non-Christian Writers

A. Julian the Apostate

B. Themistius

C. Sallustius

D. Macrobius

E. Claudian

F. Sulpicius

4. Inscriptional evidence

5. Busts of Epicurus

6. Summary

VIII. The Fifth Century Onwards

1. Synesius

2. Theodoretus

3. Epicureanism in the West

A. Martianus Capella

B. Salvian

C. Orientius

D. Claudius Marius Victor

E. Caelius Aurelianus

F. Claudianus Mamertus

G. Apollinaris Sidonius

H. Boethius

I. Fulgentius

4. Epicureanism in the East

A. Socrates

B. Synesius

C. John Stobaeus

D. Proclus

E. Marinus

F. Justinian and philosophy at Athens

IX. Conclusions