Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.36.5, pp. 3353-3383
 
Plutarch and Epicureanism
by Jackson P. Hershbell, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Contents

I. Plutarch's Anti-Epicurean Writings and Recent Scholarship

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II. Plutarch's Epicurean Friends

3355

III. Plutarch's Literary Sources for Epicureanism

3356

1. Plutarch and the Works of Epicurus

3357

2. Plutarch and the Works of Colotes

3361

3. Plutarch and the Works of Metrodorus

3362

IV. Plutarch's Attitude toward Epicurus and his Greek Followers

3364

V. Plutarch's Quotations of Epicurus

3365

VI. Plutarch's Quotations of Metrodorus

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VII. Plutarch's Interpretation of Epicurean Teaching

3369

VIII. Plutarch's Objections to Epicureanism

3372

IX. Conclusions

3381
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