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Chapter 4 - Was Atticus an Epicurean?

from Part I - Epicurus and Roman Identities

By
Nathan Gilbert
Edited by
Sergio Yona  and
Gregson Davis
Sergio Yona
Affiliation:
University of Missouri, Columbia
Gregson Davis
Affiliation:
Duke University, North Carolina
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Summary

This chapter claims that Atticus offers a fruitful case study of Epicureanism in the late Republic and can thereby contribute to broader questions of philosophical allegiance in the ancient world. There has, of course, been valuable discussion of philosophical allegiance in recent years. A reconsideration of Atticus’ Epicureanism will fruitfully extend these debates precisely because he is a not a perfect fit for any of these categories. He was not a professional philosopher; in any case, it is dangerous to assume that the thunderings of Lucretius or Philodemus on the Epicurean wise man map reliably onto the complexities of life, especially in the case of Atticus.

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AtticusCiceroEpicureanismpoliticsrepublican Romefriendship
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Epicurus in Rome
Philosophical Perspectives in the Ciceronian Age
 , pp. 55 - 71
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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