Chapter 7 Augustine and Epicureanism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Contributors VII
4. Abbreviations IX
5. Introduction: Afterlives of the Garden, Modalities of Reception of Epicurean Thought in Proto-Imperial and Imperial Rome 1
6. Chapter 1 Amator miser: Epicurean Aspects of the Portrayal of Infelicitous Amor in Horatian Lyric 13
7. Chapter 2 Evidence and Anger: Epicurean Cognition in the Finale of the Aeneid 35
8. Chapter 3 A Woman’s Pleasure: Sulpicia and the Epicurean Discourse on Love 55
9. Chapter 4 The Epicurean Project of the Ciris 79
10. Chapter 5 Volcanos and Roman Epicureanism: Traces of Epicurean Theory in the Poet of the Aetna 97
11. Chapter 6 Epicurus in the Roman Imperial Age: Four Case-Studies (Aristocles of Messene, Atticus, Dionysius of Alexandria and Plotinus) 113
12. Chapter 7 Augustine and Epicureanism 133
13. Bibliography 149
14. Index Locorum 167