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Epicurus, Letter To Menoeceus, 123
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1. Hesiod, Theogony, 940 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 940. The hardest of all things, which men subdue
2. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 225-247, 224 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 224. The sacrificer of his daughter — strange! —
3. Xenophanes, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
4. Xenophanes, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
5. Xenophanes, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
6. Herodotus, Histories, 1.44.2 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1.44.2. and in his great and terrible grief at this mischance he called on Zeus by three names—Zeus the Purifier, Zeus of the Hearth, Zeus of Comrades: the first, because he wanted the god to know what evil his guest had done him; the second, because he had received the guest into his house and thus unwittingly entertained the murderer of his son; and the third, because he had found his worst enemy in the man whom he had sent as a protector.
7. Plato, Laws, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 653d. in the course of men’s lives; so the gods, in pity for the human race thus born to misery, have ordained the feasts of thanksgiving as periods of respite from their troubles; and they have granted them as companions in their feasts the Muses and Apollo the master of music, and Dionysus, that they may at least set right again their modes of discipline by associating in their feasts with gods. We must consider, then, whether the account that is harped on nowadays is true to nature? What it says is that, almost without exception, every young creature is able of keeping either its body or its tongue quiet
8. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 1.43-1.45, 1.49 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.43. With the errors of the poets may be classed the monstrous doctrines of the magi and the insane mythology of Egypt, and also the popular beliefs, which are a mere mass of inconsistencies sprung from ignorance. "Anyone pondering on the baseless and irrational character of these doctrines ought to regard Epicurus with reverence, and to rank him as one of the very gods about whom we are inquiring. For he alone perceived, first, that the gods exist, because nature herself has imprinted a conception of them on the minds of all mankind. For what nation or what tribe is there but possesses untaught some 'preconception' of the gods? Such notions Epicurus designates by the word prolepsis, that is, a sort of preconceived mental picture of a thing, without which nothing can be understood or investigated or discussed. The force and value of this argument we learn in that work of genius, Epicurus's Rule or Standard of Judgement. 1.44. You see therefore that the foundation (for such it is) of our inquiry has been well and truly laid. For the belief in the gods has not been established by authority, custom or law, but rests on the uimous and abiding consensus of mankind; their existence is therefore a necessary inference, since we possess an instinctive or rather an innate concept of them; but a belief which all men by nature share must necessarily be true; therefore it must be admitted that the gods exist. And since this truth is almost universally accepted not only among philosophers but also among the unlearned, we must admit it as also being an accepted truth that we possess a 'preconception,' as I called it above, or 'prior notion,' of the gods. (For we are bound to employ novel terms to denote novel ideas, just as Epicurus himself employed the word prolepsis in a sense in which no one had ever used it before.) 1.45. We have then a preconception of such a nature that we believe the gods to be blessed and immortal. For nature, which bestowed upon us an idea of the gods themselves, also engraved on our minds the belief that they are eternal and blessed. If this is so, the famous maxim of Epicurus truthfully enunciates that 'that which is blessed and eternal can neither know trouble itself nor cause trouble to another, and accordingly cannot feel either anger or favour, since all such things belong only to the weak.' "If we sought to attain nothing else beside piety in worshipping the gods and freedom from superstition, what has been said had sufficed; since the exalted nature of the gods, being both eternal and supremely blessed, would receive man's pious worship (for what is highest commands the reverence that is its due); and furthermore all fear of the divine power or divine anger would have been banished (since it is understood that anger and favour alike are excluded from the nature of a being at once blessed and immortal, and that these being eliminated we are menaced by no fears in regard to the powers above). But the mind strives to strengthen this belief by trying to discover the form of god, the mode of his activity, and the operation of his intelligence. 1.49. Yet their form is not corporeal, but only resembles bodily substance; it does not contain blood, but the semblance of blood. "These discoveries of Epicurus are so acute in themselves and so subtly expressed that not everyone would be capable of appreciating them. Still I may rely on your intelligence, and make my exposition briefer than the subject demands. Epicurus then, as he not merely discerns abstruse and recondite things with his mind's eye, but handles them as tangible realities, teaches that the substance and nature of the gods is such that, in the first place, it is perceived not by the senses but by the mind, and not materially or individually, like the solid objects which Epicurus in virtue of their substantiality entitles steremnia; but by our perceiving images owing to their similarity and succession, because an endless train of precisely similar images arises from the innumerable atoms and streams towards the gods, our minds with the keenest feelings of pleasure fixes its gaze on these images, and so attains an understanding of the nature of a being both blessed and eternal.
9. Philodemus, (Pars I) \ On Piety, 13, 12 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
10. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.44-1.49, 1.62-1.111, 1.116-1.118, 1.123, 2.352-2.366, 2.646-2.651, 3.23-3.24, 5.5, 5.8, 5.110-5.155, 5.165-5.168, 5.181-5.186, 5.195-5.415, 5.1161-5.1163, 5.1194-5.1195, 5.1198-5.1202, 5.1240, 6.64-6.66 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
11. Sextus, Against The Mathematicians, 7.216 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
12. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 10.33, 10.77, 10.120 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 10.33. By preconception they mean a sort of apprehension or a right opinion or notion, or universal idea stored in the mind; that is, a recollection of an external object often presented, e.g. Such and such a thing is a man: for no sooner is the word man uttered than we think of his shape by an act of preconception, in which the senses take the lead. Thus the object primarily denoted by every term is then plain and clear. And we should never have started an investigation, unless we had known what it was that we were in search of. For example: The object standing yonder is a horse or a cow. Before making this judgement, we must at some time or other have known by preconception the shape of a horse or a cow. We should not have given anything a name, if we had not first learnt its form by way of preconception. It follows, then, that preconceptions are clear. The object of a judgement is derived from something previously clear, by reference to which we frame the proposition, e.g. How do we know that this is a man? 10.77. For troubles and anxieties and feelings of anger and partiality do not accord with bliss, but always imply weakness and fear and dependence upon one's neighbours. Nor, again, must we hold that things which are no more than globular masses of fire, being at the same time endowed with bliss, assume these motions at will. Nay, in every term we use we must hold fast to all the majesty which attaches to such notions as bliss and immortality, lest the terms should generate opinions inconsistent with this majesty. Otherwise such inconsistency will of itself suffice to produce the worst disturbance in our minds. Hence, where we find phenomena invariably recurring, the invariableness of the recurrence must be ascribed to the original interception and conglomeration of atoms whereby the world was formed.
13. Epicurus, On Nature, 12
14. Epicurus, Letter To Menoeceus, 124
15. Epicurus, Letter To Herodotus, 74-78, 82, 73
16. Epicurus, Letters, 97
17. Epicurus, Letters, 97
18. Epicurus, Kuriai Doxai, 1

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
abraham, isaac, and jacob/patriarchs	Allison, 4 Baruch (2018) 199
abraham	Allison, 4 Baruch (2018) 199
accomodation/ sunoikeiosis	Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 219
action, and cult	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 233
action, religious	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 233
aeschylus	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 104
aetiology	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 233
agency, causes of	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 233
analogy	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 233
anger	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 70
animals, sacrificial	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 104
animals	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 104
anthropomorphization	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 233
anti-epicurean polemics	Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 109
apollo	Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 220
arrogance	Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 109
assimilation, to god/gods	Allison, Saving One Another: Philodemus and Paul on Moral Formation in Community (2020) 81
assimilation to god	Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 174
belief, epiphanic	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 233
belief, false	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 233
belief, in gods/goddesses	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 233
belief, religious	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 218
belief, theological	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 218, 233
bury, r.g.	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 114
cattle	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 104
cognition, theological	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 218
concepts	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 114
connections within, in greek thought	McDonough, Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine (2009) 106
consensus	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 218
cosmology	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 70
creation and ownership, hellenistic views	McDonough, Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine (2009) 106
cult, action	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 233
diogenes laertius	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 70
diogenes of babylon	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 114
diogenes of oenoanda	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 70
disdain (καταφρόνησις)	Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 109
empedocles	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 104
empiricus, sextus	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 233
epicureanism	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 114
epicureans	McDonough, Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine (2009) 106
epicurus, authority in the de rerum natura	Bryan, Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy (2018) 237; Wardy and Warren, Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy (2018) 237
epicurus, on nature and the self	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 114
epicurus, religious observance	Allison, Saving One Another: Philodemus and Paul on Moral Formation in Community (2020) 60, 63
epicurus, theology	Bryan, Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy (2018) 237; Wardy and Warren, Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy (2018) 237
epicurus	Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 217, 219, 220; Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 104; Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 218
epilepsy, and its medical explanation by lucretius	Kazantzidis, Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in "De rerum natura" (2021) 87
epilepsy	Kazantzidis, Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in "De rerum natura" (2021) 87
epiphany	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 218, 233
epoche	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 114
false beliefs	Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 109
fear	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 70; Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 109
fever	Kazantzidis, Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in "De rerum natura" (2021) 87
god, in greek thought	McDonough, Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine (2009) 106
godenzonen	Versnel, Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology (2011) 392
gods, apotheosis, deus mortalis	Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 174
gods, concepts of	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 114
gods, scepticism about	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 114
gods/goddesses, belief in	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 233
gods/goddesses, common notion of	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 218
gods/goddesses, epiphanies of	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 218
gods	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 70; Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 109
gods (epicurean), character (blessedness and incorruptibility)	Allison, Saving One Another: Philodemus and Paul on Moral Formation in Community (2020) 59, 60
gods (epicurean), involvement in moral formation	Allison, Saving One Another: Philodemus and Paul on Moral Formation in Community (2020) 58, 59, 60, 63, 81
gods (epicurean), realist and idealist conceptions of	Allison, Saving One Another: Philodemus and Paul on Moral Formation in Community (2020) 81, 82
greek gods, and harms	Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 217
greek gods, knowledge of god	Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 217
greek gods, preconception/ prolepsis	Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 217, 219
indestructibility, of the divine	Kazantzidis, Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in "De rerum natura" (2021) 87
inference	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 218, 233
iphigenia	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 104
knowledge, epicurean	Allison, Saving One Another: Philodemus and Paul on Moral Formation in Community (2020) 81
liturgical expressions/elements	Allison, 4 Baruch (2018) 199
logos, as world creator	McDonough, Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine (2009) 106
lucretius, devotion to epicurus	Wardy and Warren, Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy (2018) 237
lucretius, religion in	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 104
lucretius, theology	Wardy and Warren, Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy (2018) 237
lucretius	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 218, 233; Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 109
lucretius observer	Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 109
magnanimity	Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 109
materialism	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 70
matter	McDonough, Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine (2009) 106
maturity	Allison, Saving One Another: Philodemus and Paul on Moral Formation in Community (2020) 81
measure	Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 174
medical, intertexts	Kazantzidis, Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in "De rerum natura" (2021) 87
meteorology	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 70
mind	McDonough, Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine (2009) 106
moral formation, involvement of god/gods within	Allison, Saving One Another: Philodemus and Paul on Moral Formation in Community (2020) 58, 59, 60, 63, 81
morally inferior (χυδαῖοι)	Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 109
moses	Allison, 4 Baruch (2018) 199
music	Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 109
nimirum, its philosophical and medical background	Kazantzidis, Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in "De rerum natura" (2021) 87
omnipotence (divine), in jewish-christian theology	Versnel, Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology (2011) 392
philodemus	Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 217, 219, 220
pietas	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 233
piety	Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 174
plato, laws	Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 174
pleasure	Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 109
posidonius of apamea	Wynne, Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage (2019) 83
prayer	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 104
prolēpsis	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 218
reason	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 114
religion, attacks against religious modes of healing in medical texts	Kazantzidis, Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in "De rerum natura" (2021) 87
religion, in lucretius	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 104
sacra	Mackey, Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (2022) 233
scepticism, academic	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 114
scepticism, pyrrhonean	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 114
sextus empiricus	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 114
stoicism, stoics, theology of	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 114
stoics, stoicism	Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 219, 220
stoics	Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 109
strife'	McDonough, Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine (2009) 106
superstition/religio	Frede and Laks, Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (2001) 174
thauma / thaumazein, in the hippocratic corpus	Kazantzidis, Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in "De rerum natura" (2021) 87
theology	Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 114
tranquility (ἀταραξία)	Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 109
veyne, paul	Versnel, Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology (2011) 392
wealth	Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 109
xenophanes	Lehoux et al., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013) 70