Stoicism and Epicureanism: Sources and Interpretation

An extensive collection of the essential writings of ancient Stoicism and Epicureanism. Contains the Discourses and Enchiridion (handbook, manual) of Epictetus; Seneca's On Providence, On the Shortness of Life, On the Tranquility of Mind, and on Anger, as well as his letter on The Happy Life,; the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius; the complete extant writings of Epicurus; Lucretius' epic poem On the Nature of Things; and Horace's Epicurean odes alongside selections from The Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius and two highly divergent interpretive essays that examine the precedents of these two main Hellenistic philosophies.