Epicurus
On Rhetoric
Written work
On Rhetoric
Περὶ ῥητορικῆς
According to Diogenes Laertius (X 13), in this work Epicurus held that the only requirement of style is clarity. The grammarian Aristophanes credited him with a very distinctive style, and Epicurus used the ordinary terms for things, without technical vocabulary. Philodemus later devoted a lengthy treatise to rhetoric, partly preserved at Herculaneum.
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Authorship note
A lost work, not included in the list at X 27–28; Diogenes Laertius mentions it at X 13.
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- Letter to Herodotus
- Letter to Pythocles
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- Last Will · 270
- Letter to Idomeneus (on his last day) · 270
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- Problems
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- On the End
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- Chaeredemus
- On the Gods
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- Hegesianax
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- On the Angle in the Atom
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- On Fate
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- On Images
- On Presentation
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- Polymedes
- Timocrates (3 books)
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Sources
- Diógenes Laercio. Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres, libro X (Epicuro: vida, testamento, cartas a Heródoto, Pitocles y Meneceo, Máximas capitales), s. III d. C. Trad. inglesa de R. D. Hicks, Loeb Classical Library 185, 1925 (Wikisource en inglés); texto griego en Wikisource griega; trad. de C. D. Yonge, Bohn, 1853 (Project Gutenberg n.º 57342).
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