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Creationism and its critics in antiquity by Sedley, D. N.

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From Epicurus to Epictetus studies in Hellenistic and Roman philosophy / by Long, A. A.

Table of Contents: “…General -- Scepticism -- Epicureanism -- Early Stoicism -- Cicero, and Roman Stoicism.…”
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From Epicurus to Epictetus studies in Hellenistic and Roman philosophy / by Long, A. A.

Table of Contents: “…General -- Scepticism -- Epicureanism -- Early Stoicism -- Cicero, and Roman Stoicism.…”
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Transfigured World : Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism / by Williams, Carolyn, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part one: Opening conclusions -- Part two: Figural strategies in the Renaissance -- Part three: Historical novelty and Marius the Epicurean -- Part four: "Recovery as reminiscence": the Greek studies and Plato and Platonism -- Afterword.…”
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Transfigured World : Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism / by Williams, Carolyn, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part one: Opening conclusions -- Part two: Figural strategies in the Renaissance -- Part three: Historical novelty and Marius the Epicurean -- Part four: "Recovery as reminiscence": the Greek studies and Plato and Platonism -- Afterword.…”
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How philosophers saved myths allegorical interpretation and classical mythology / by Brisson, Luc

Table of Contents: “…Muthos and philosophia -- Plato's attitude toward myth -- Aristotle and the beginnings of allegorical exegesis -- Stoics, Epicureans, and the New Academy -- Pythagoreanism and Platonism -- The Neoplatonic Athens school -- Byzantium and the pagan myths -- The Western Middle Ages -- The Renaissance.…”
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How philosophers saved myths allegorical interpretation and classical mythology / by Brisson, Luc

Table of Contents: “…Muthos and philosophia -- Plato's attitude toward myth -- Aristotle and the beginnings of allegorical exegesis -- Stoics, Epicureans, and the New Academy -- Pythagoreanism and Platonism -- The Neoplatonic Athens school -- Byzantium and the pagan myths -- The Western Middle Ages -- The Renaissance.…”
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From villain to hero Odysseus in ancient thought / by Montiglio, Silvia, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…": Antisthenes' defense of an abused hero -- Plato's Odysseus: a soldier in the soul -- Yearning for excellence: Odysseus in cynic and stoic thought -- King, friend, and flatterer: Odysseus in epicureanism and beyond -- Between contemplation and action -- Epilogue: Odysseus' virtus and thirst for knowledge in the Renaissance.…”
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From villain to hero Odysseus in ancient thought / by Montiglio, Silvia, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…": Antisthenes' defense of an abused hero -- Plato's Odysseus: a soldier in the soul -- Yearning for excellence: Odysseus in cynic and stoic thought -- King, friend, and flatterer: Odysseus in epicureanism and beyond -- Between contemplation and action -- Epilogue: Odysseus' virtus and thirst for knowledge in the Renaissance.…”
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The Examined Life : An Adventure in Moral Philosophy by Fite, Warner, 1867-1955

Table of Contents: “…The enjoyment of life : The Epicurean attitude ; An Epicurean confession ; Epicurus and Pater ; Enjoyment and imagination ; The enjoyment of friendship and the enjoyment of religion ; Serious enjoyment. -- XIV. …”
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The Examined Life : An Adventure in Moral Philosophy by Fite, Warner, 1867-1955

Table of Contents: “…The enjoyment of life : The Epicurean attitude ; An Epicurean confession ; Epicurus and Pater ; Enjoyment and imagination ; The enjoyment of friendship and the enjoyment of religion ; Serious enjoyment. -- XIV. …”
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Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans

Table of Contents: “…Vergil's farewell to education (Catalepton 5) and Epicurus' letter to Pythocles / Diskin Clay -- Philosophy's harbor / Francesca Longo Auricchio -- Vergil's epicureanism in his early poems / Régine Chambert -- Consolation in the bucolic mode : the Epicurean cadence of Vergil's first eclogue / Gregson Davis -- A secret garden : Georgics 4.116-148 / W.R. …”
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Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans

Table of Contents: “…Vergil's farewell to education (Catalepton 5) and Epicurus' letter to Pythocles / Diskin Clay -- Philosophy's harbor / Francesca Longo Auricchio -- Vergil's epicureanism in his early poems / Régine Chambert -- Consolation in the bucolic mode : the Epicurean cadence of Vergil's first eclogue / Gregson Davis -- A secret garden : Georgics 4.116-148 / W.R. …”
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The anatomy of influence literature as a way of life / by Bloom, Harold

Table of Contents: “…Johnson and critical influence -- The skeptical sublime. Anxieties of Epicurean influence : Dryden, Pater, Milton, Shelley, Tennyson, Whitman, Swinburne, Stevens ; Leopardi's Lucretian swerve ; Shelley's heirs : Browning and Yeats ; Whose condition of fire? …”
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The anatomy of influence literature as a way of life / by Bloom, Harold

Table of Contents: “…Johnson and critical influence -- The skeptical sublime. Anxieties of Epicurean influence : Dryden, Pater, Milton, Shelley, Tennyson, Whitman, Swinburne, Stevens ; Leopardi's Lucretian swerve ; Shelley's heirs : Browning and Yeats ; Whose condition of fire? …”
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Happiness and Utility : Essays Presented to Frederick Rosen /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : happiness, utility and the republic of letters / Mark Philp, Georgios Varouxakis -- Happiness and interests in politics : a late-Enlightenment debate / Emmanuelle de Champs -- Jeremy Bentham and the Spanish Constitution of 1812 / Philip Schofield -- Scepticism and Epicureanism : from David Hume to J.S. Mill / James Moore -- Bentham on 'Hume's virtues' / Jose L. …”
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Happiness and Utility : Essays Presented to Frederick Rosen /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : happiness, utility and the republic of letters / Mark Philp, Georgios Varouxakis -- Happiness and interests in politics : a late-Enlightenment debate / Emmanuelle de Champs -- Jeremy Bentham and the Spanish Constitution of 1812 / Philip Schofield -- Scepticism and Epicureanism : from David Hume to J.S. Mill / James Moore -- Bentham on 'Hume's virtues' / Jose L. …”
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Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics /

Table of Contents: “…Object and ousia : Harman and Aristotle on the being of things / Eric Salem -- Part III. Epicureans, stoics, skeptics, and neo-platonists -- 13. …”
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Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics /

Table of Contents: “…Object and ousia : Harman and Aristotle on the being of things / Eric Salem -- Part III. Epicureans, stoics, skeptics, and neo-platonists -- 13. …”
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