The dialogue The Nature of the Gods both explores his own views on these subjects, as a monotheist and member of the Academic School, and considers the opinion of other philosophical schools of the Hellenistic age through the figures of Velleius the Epicurean and Balbus the Stoic: is there ...
(Models: Des Esseintes in Huysmans’ � Rebours, Marius the Epicurean, Val廨y’sMonsieur Teste.) He was dedicated to "good taste." The connoisseur of Camp has found more ingenious pleasures. Not in Latin poetry and rare wines and velvet jackets, but in the coarsest, commonest pleasures...
of the atoms involved in the composition of the individual/thing in question. In regards to the questions of a permanence or transience of any assumed state of happiness on the part of the proposed individual, the Epicureans would related this to the adherence or disavowal of a life lived un...
From the Epicurean school of thought, Lucretius promulgated materialism in opposition to spiritualism. It contains one of the first suggestions of the existence of food allergy in historical literature.This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access. Notes 1. ...