Collection The classical authors
Epicurus
Greek philosopher, founder of Epicureanism, 341-270 BC
According to Diogenes Laertius, he wrote some three hundred rolls; Diogenes preserved the three letters and the Principal Doctrines in Book X of his Lives.
Works
- Letter to Herodotus. Summary of the physics.
- Letter to Menoeceus. On ethics and happiness.
- Letter to Pythocles. On celestial phenomena; authorship disputed.
- On Nature (Peri physeos). Thirty-seven books; parts survive in the Herculaneum papyri.
- Principal Doctrines (Kyriai doxai). Forty maxims.
- Vatican Sayings (Gnomologium Vaticanum). Eighty-one sayings, found in a Vatican manuscript in 1888.