Book Selections
For every level of interest...

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Epicureanism for New Audiences:

On Epicurus
 
by Norman Lillegard
  Wadsworth Publishing (2002)

The Consolations of Philosophy
 
by Alain de Botton
  Penguin / Vintage (2000 / 2001)

On the Nature of Things
De Rerum Natura

 Lucretius, translated by Anthony M. Esolen
  Johns Hopkins University Press (1995)

The Epicurus Reader
Selected Writings and Testimonia

 
Translated by Brad Inwood and Lloyd P. Gerson
  Hackett Publishing Company (1994)
  Reviewed by Pamela Gordon

Epicurus
 George Andrew Panichas 
  Twayne Publishers (1970)

 
Epicureanism for Students and Aficionados:

Epicurus
His Continuing Influence and Contemporary Relevance

 Edited by Dane R. Gordon and David B. Suits
  Cary Graphic Arts Press (2003) 

On the Nature of Things
 
Lucretius, translated with extensive notes by Martin Ferguson Smith
  Hackett Publishing Company (2001)
  Reviewed by Robert Todd, with a Response by MF Smith & DH Hutchison

The Hellenistic Philosophers,
Vol. 1, Translations of the Principal Sources with Philosophical Commentary

 
Anthony A. Long, &, David N. Sedley
  Cambridge University Press (1987)

Hellenistic Philosophy
Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics
,
 
Anthony A. Long,
  University of California Press (1986)

Epicurus
An Intrdocution

 John M. Rist 
  Cambridge University Press (1977)

Three Discourses of Happiness, Virtue and Liberty
 Collected from the works of Pierre Gassendi by Francois Bernier
  Kessinger Publishing (1699 English translation lithographed in 2003)

 
Epicureanism for Advanced Students and Scholars:

Epicurus on Freedom
 
Tim O'Keefe
  Cambridge University Press (2005)

Facing Death
Epicurus And His Critics

 
James Warren
  Oxford University Press (2004)

Epicurus and Democritean Ethics
An Archaeology of Ataraxia

 
James Warren
  Cambridge University Press (2002)
  Reviewed by Tim O'Keefe

Paradosis and Survival
Three Chapters in the History of Epicurean Philosophy

 Diskin Clay
  University of Michigan Press (1998)
  Reviewed by Pamela Gordon

Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom
 
David N. Sedley
  Cambridge University Press (1998)
  Reviewed by Gordon Campbell

Epicurus in Lycia
The Second-Century World of Diogenes of Oenoanda
 Pamela Gordon
  University of Michigan Press (1996)

The Epicurean Tradition
 Howard Jones 
  
Rutledge (1992)

Atoms, Pneuma, and Tranquillity
Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought
 
Edited by Margaret J. Osler 
  Cambridge University Press (1991)

Epicurus' Ethical Theory
The Pleasures of Invulnerability
 
Phillip Mitsis 
 
Cornell University Press (1988)

Epicurus on the Swerve and Voluntary Action
 Walter G. Englert 
  American Philological Association (1987)

Epicurus' Scientific Method
 Elizabeth Asmis
  Cornell University Press (1984)

The Sculpted Word
Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment in Ancient Greece
 
Bernard Frischer 
  University of California Press (1982)

 
Sourcebooks with Original-Language Texts

Diogenes of Oinoanda
The Epicurean Inscription
 
 
With English translation by Martin Ferguson Smith
  Bibliopolis (1993)

The Hellenistic Philosophers
Vol. 2, Greek and Latin Texts with Notes and Bibliography
 
Anthony A. Long, &, David N. Sedley
  Cambridge University Press (1987)

Philodemus
On Methods of Inference

 With English translation and commentary by P. H. De Lacy and E. A. De Lacy
  Bibliopolis (1978)

Lucretius
De Rerum Natura

 
With English translation by W.H.D. Rouse, edited by Martin Ferguson Smith
  Harvard University Press (1975)

Diogenes Laertius
The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Vol. II

 
With English translation by R.D. Hicks
  Harvard University Press (1925)

Epicurea
 Hermann Usener
  ? (1887)
  Irvington Pub. (reprint 1987)